The third of six sons of George Harrison; was for more than fifty years a prominent man in Chester as Surgeon to the Infirmary, then Consulting Surgeon, also three times Mayor. His eldest brother, George, practised as a partner with his father until his death about 1850. Another brother, Job, MRCS,

Born in August, 1809, the son of a medical practitioner in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. He was educated at various schools in the county, and was then apprenticed to Dr Barnett, of Stourport. He became a student at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals in 1827, but soon afterwards went to Paris, where he stu

Born on December 26th, 1809, the son of Edward Breese Copeman, a merchant living at Great Witchingham in Norfolk. He received his early education at the Grammar School in Trunch, and was then apprenticed in Norwich, first to A Brown, and then to J G Crosse ('Crosse, of Norwich'), whose midwifery cas

Studied at University College and Middlesex Hospitals, and was then House Surgeon at the General Lying-in Hospital, Lambeth. He went out to Mexico as Surgeon to the Bolanos Mining Company, and on returning to England settled at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, where he was Medical Officer of Health for the So

Practised at 13 Canonbury Lane, North London, and died on December 13th, 1870.

Educated at St Thomas's Hospital. He practised at Melksham, Wiltshire, and was for many years Medical Officer of the 3rd District of the Melksham Union, and at the time of his death Senior Surgeon of the Melksham Cottage Hospital and Medical Officer of the 2nd District of the Devizes Union. He died

The son of James Long, a Lancashire merchant. He was probably born at Poulton, and was apprenticed to Mr Halton, a Surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. To the apprenticeship system Long used often to attribute that thorough grasp of practical detail in medicine and surgery on which his success

Studied at Guy's Hospital, and practised at Palace Street, Canterbury, where he was Surgeon to the Canterbury Dispensary. Before 1880 he was living at 13 Bolingbroke Terrace, Walworth Road; 6 Addington Place, Camberwell, SE; Sutherland House, Walworth, and other addresses. He was at various times Su

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. He practised at Liverpool as Surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary until his retirement in 1874, when he was appointed Consulting Surgeon. For a time he was Surgeon to the Northern Hospital and Northern Dispens

Educated at Guy's Hospital, and became well known as a Surgeon in Plymouth, practising at 4 Park Place, Stoke, Devonport. After his retirement he served as Justice of the Peace for Devonport. He died at Penlee Cottage, Stoke, on March 24th, 1883. His son, William Paul Swain (qv), followed his father

Born at Hopton, in Suffolk, on August 7th, 1809, the only son of Samuel Webber (d 1822), surgeon of that place and Colonel Commandant of the Blackwater Volunteers. He studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals and in Paris. He then assisted Samuel Randall, of Orford, Suffolk, and was appointed Surge

A graduate of St Andrews; practised at Assembly Row, Mile End, London, E, where he was found dead in bed on the morning of August 6th, 1857, and a bottle containing hydrocyanic acid was on his dressing-table. Shortly before he had complained of severe headache and insomnia, and had been unduly haras