The younger son of Robert Druitt, senr, surgeon, of Wimborne Minster, Dorset, and of Jane, daughter of Dr Mayo, Head Master of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Wimborne, and brother of Robert Druitt (qv). He was educated at Wimborne Grammar School and next became a pupil of his uncle, Charles Mayo

The son of the Rev Charles Girdlestone, who was a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, at the time of his son's birth, and later Rector of Kingswinford. One of his brothers was Canon Girdlestone, of Christ Church, Oxford. Tharp Mountain Girdlestone was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he

The son of the Rev John Pye Smith, DD, FRS, a well-known Sheffield Nonconformist minister and geologist; the son inherited his father's industry, love of knowledge, and religious principles. Pye Smith went to Mill Hill School and was then articled to Ashwell, a City practitioner; he next studied

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, practised at 1 Harringay Park, Hornsey, and died there on May 31st, 1866.

Studied at St Thomas's Hospital, and practised first at Maidstone, next at Rochford, Essex, then in London successively at 1 Montagu Street, Portman Square; 16 Orchard Street; 36 Harewood Square, NW; and 358 Camden Road N, where he died on November 28th, 1895. He was awarded the Fothergillian Gold M

Studied at University College Hospital and in 1841 settled in practice at Spalding, where he held the posts of Surgeon to the Spalding Dispensary, the Spalding Union Infirmary, the Johnson Hospital, and to the Railway. He was Local Secretary to the Royal Medical Benevolent College, on the Council of

Worked with Sir Charles Bell at the Windmill Street School and served under him at the Middlesex Hospital, where he acted as House Surgeon; when Bell was appointed Professor of Surgery Hind followed him to University College Hospital. Here he instituted the Anatomical and Pathological Museum, and wa

Born at 39 College Green, Bristol, on July 16th, 1818, the second son of James Cowles Prichard, FRS, a physician, famous as the author of *The Natural History of Man*. His mother was the daughter of Dr Estlin, Unitarian Minister and Co-Pastor at Lewin's Mead Chapel, a scholar and friend of Coleridge