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 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

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

The son of Richard Jones, born at St Andrews on January 9th, 1808. His father (d1821) was one of the Secretaries of HM Customs for Scotland. He was descended on his father's side from a wealthy Shropshire family and on his mother's side from an old Essex family named Alliston, or Elliston, whose lan

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