Born at Gosport; educated in London and Paris. He practised at 16 Pall Mall, SW, migrated to America in 1847, and was immediately appointed Professor of Special, General, and Surgical Anatomy in the University at St Louis. Two years later he took part in the gold rush to California and settled at Sa

Born at Cobh, afterwards Queenstown and now again Cobh, Co Cork, on February 27th, 1787, the second son of John Verling and of Eleanor Roche, his wife. James Roche Verling belonged to a family long settled in that part of Ireland. He was apprenticed to Sir Arthur Clarke, a well-known Dublin physicia

Born on May 20th, 1790, the son of George Wylie, of Glasgow. He entered the Madras Army as Assistant Surgeon on June 11th, 1812, being promoted to Surgeon on July 1st, 1825, to Superintending Surgeon on February 1st, 1838, to Inspector-General of Hospitals on December 18th, 1846, to Surgeon General

Entered the Royal Navy and retired with the rank of Staff Surgeon. He died at Old Kent Road, SE, on November 15th, 1865. See below for an expanded version of the published obituary uploaded 4 July 2018: Benjamin Bynoe was a Royal Navy surgeon, botanist and naturalist who served aboar

Born in Beaumont Street and entered as a student at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he gained the favourable notice of John Abernethy, and subsequently of Amussat, under whom he studied anatomy in Paris. He was for a time Surgeon to the Islington Dispensary. In 1841 he settled in Toronto and was ap

Born at Prestonpans on March 20th, 1808, the son of James Fergusson. He was educated at Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, at the High School, and at the University of Edinburgh. He was placed by his own desire in a lawyer's office at the age of 15, but finding the work uncongenial he changed law for medicin

Entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1829 and matriculated at the London University in 1830, where he obtained honours. He must have shown some unusual interest in botany, for he is reported to have gained the Gold Medal of the Society of Apothecaries for botany, though there is now no record of the

Born at Maidstone on May 18th, 1816, the second son of Surgeon James Mouat, King's Hussars, 13th Light Infantry, and 15th Dragoons. Surgeon General Sir James Mouat, VC, KCB, FRCS his elder brother (qv) survived him for about a year. Frederic John Mouat studied in Paris with the intention of enterin

Born in London on Oct. 10th, 1816, the sixth of the fourteen children of Louis Michael Simon (1782-1879) by his second wife, Mathilde Nonnet (1787-1882). His father, who had been a shipbroker and served on the Committee of the Stock Exchange from 1837-1868, was the son of an Englishman who had marri

Born at Sudbury, in Suffolk, on July 18th, 1820, the third son of William Wood Humphry, barrister-at-law and distributor of stamps for the county of Suffolk. One of his brothers became a barrister; the second, the Rev W G Humphry, was for many years Vicar of St Martin's-in-the-Fields. G M Humphry wa