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

Born in 1866, he was educated at Aberdeen University, the Middlesex and King's College Hospitals. He was a house surgeon at the Gloucestershire General Infirmary and Eye Hospital and then ophthalmic clinical assistant at the Middlesex Hospital. He settled in practice at Lewes, Sussex and was appo

The only child of the Rev Philip de la Garde, sometime Rector of St Martin, Jersey, and of Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Chilwell, of Westerham, and Hadlow in Kent. He was born at Chelsea, and there his father died when he was a year old. He was educated at the Exeter Grammar School when John Lemprier

Born at Brighton, and received his education at New College School, Oxford. He was then apprenticed to James Fernandez Clarke, the well-known medical biographer attached to the staff of the *Lancet*, and afterwards completed his professional training at Charing Cross Hospital, where, among other pri

Born on October 14th, 1832, the son of Daniel Macnamara, surgeon, of Uxbridge, a brother, George Macnamara, succeeding his father in the practice. Charles Macnamara in late years travelled in Co Clare and traced the origin of his Sept with full topographical detail in his *Story of an Irish Sept* (1

The eldest son of Edward Henderson, MD, of Shanghai, he was born in China 18 February 1870, and was educated at Cheltenham College, where he gained a junior classical scholarship in 1882. Two years later he entered Harrow School, when Dr Butler was head master, and remained there until 1887. He then

Came of a Yorkshire family collateral with that of the poet, and born at Manchester, where his father, the Rev William Wordsworth, was curate. He was apprenticed in 1840 to John Jesse, a well-known Manchester practitioner, from whom he derived all the advantages of a well-ordered apprenticeship. He

The second child and only son of Francis Edward Nairn, a gentleman of independent means, and his wife, *née* Curtis, was born at Greytown, New Zealand on 12 March 1862. He was educated at Nelson College and at Wellington College until he came to England and entered St Thomas's Hospital for his medic

Born 12 July 1869 at Romford, Essex, the fourth child and third son of Octavius George Daldy, coal and timber merchant, and his wife, *née* Mantell. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, and at Guy's Hospital, and was awarded a gold medal at the London University MB BS examination. Daldy was in

Born at Brisbane, Australia, 22 February 1880, he was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and entered the Queensland public service. At the age of 22 he entered the University of Sydney, and graduated in medicine in 1907. He was a resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, started general

Vincent Nesfield was born in India on 12 October 1879, the son of John Collinson Nesfield, Director of Education in India, and Ellen Blumhardt, a missionary who had been through the siege of Lucknow during the Mutiny. He entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1897 and completed a successful ca

Born in 1829 or 1830; studied at St George's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, and afterwards acted as Resident Attendant to a nobleman who left him a handsome sum of money in recognition of his services. This led him to become FRCS, and he succeeded in being elected Assistant Surgeon to St Geor