Was a student at St George's Hospital, where he took the unusual course of graduating MB in 1852 and passing the MRCS and FRCS together two years later. During the Crimean War he was Assistant Surgeon to the Civil Hospital in Smyrna. He returned to London, was at one time Demonstrator of Anatomy at

Born on January 18th, 1857, the second son of Dr W H Horrocks, Blundellsands, Liverpool. He was educated at University College, Liverpool, Owens College, Manchester, and University College Hospital, London. After graduation he was Junior Resident Officer at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. For nearly t

Son of Abraham Horsfall, of Leeds. He matriculated at University College, Oxford, in October, 1859, and took a pass degree. He was afterwards a student and House Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, in connection with which he published "Tetanus - a Case at St Bartholomew's" in the *Lancet* (1867,

After qualifying Hough started as Surgeon to HMS *Comet* in 1803, saw active service at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1805, and at Blombourg on January 8th, 1806. He was gazetted to the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon in 1805; was promoted Surgeon on May 25th, 1818; Superintending Surgeon

Born on January 19th, 1818, at Palamcottah, Madras District, where his father was Military Chaplain. He was a descendant of John Hough (1651-1743), Bishop of Worcester and of Oxford, who was President of Magdalen College when James II endeavoured to foist a Roman Catholic upon the Society. The mothe

After going to Dudley Grammar School, of which he afterwards became a Trustee, Houghton was then educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital under Sir William Lawrence and Dr Rigby. He settled in practice at Dudley in partnership as Houghton & Messiter. He was active in founding the Dudley Dispensary, to

Tom Brennan was a general surgeon in Leeds and an outstanding trainer, both of medical students and postgraduate trainees. He was born in Dundalk and graduated from University College Dublin in 1962, before going to England to specialise in surgery. After junior posts in London he became a registrar

After qualifying from St James’s Hospital, Leeds, Ivor Fussey studied neurophysiology for nine years, gaining his PhD in 1972, during which time he devised platinum microelectrodes that could be implanted in the brain and used to locate vagal afferent impulses. After this experience he decided to sp

Hassan Agha Hashemian was a professor of surgery and head of the department of surgery at the Cancer Institute, Tehran. He was born in Kashan, Iran, on 14 April 1915, the son of Hossein Hashemian, a velvet merchant, and Nagar, a housewife. He was educated at Tehran Boys School, and then received a s

Brian Hayes was a consultant surgeon at East Glamorgan Hospital, Pontypridd. He was born in Tibshelf, Derbyshire, in 1929, the son of a miner. He was brought up in the north east of England, until the family moved to south Wales. He studied medicine in Newcastle, and went on to hold junior posts in

William Garden Hendry was a consultant surgeon at Highlands General Hospital and Wood Green and Southgate Hospital, London. He was born in Aberdeen on 30 September 1914, the son of two schoolteachers, and was brought up in a strict Presbyterian household. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School a

Bob Horton was a consultant surgeon at the United Bristol Hospitals. He was born in south London on 5 July 1917, the son of Arthur John Budd Horton, a schoolteacher, and Isabel Horton née Cotton, the daughter of a master mariner. He was educated at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s School, and studied medici