Educated at Owens College, Manchester, and at the London Hospital, where he was Scholar in Anatomy and Physiology (1883-1884), and in Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry (1884-1885). He was also Surgical Scholar, and obtained an Honours Certificate in Obstetrics in 1886-1887. After qualification he w

Educated at University College, London, in Edinburgh, and in Paris. Practised in London from 1840 to 1874, but owing to illness, from which he died on Aug 23rd, 1874, at 28 Ladbroke Square, was unable to provide for a family of ten children. A subscription in aid of his widow and family was promoted

Lived and practised at Ormskirk, Lancashire, residing at The Cottage, Burscough. He was at one time Honorary Surgeon to the Ormskirk Dispensary. JP for County Lancaster. He died on July 18th, 1878.

Educated at Owens College, Manchester, where he gained many honours, including a Gold Medal in Physiology, and various medical and surgical scholarships and honours at the University of London in the MB examination. He practised at Southport, was Surgeon to the Clinical Hospital for Women and Childr

Educated at King’s College and Guy’s Hospital, and practised at Ashton-under-Lyne, where at the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Infirmary and Surgeon to the 4th Battalion Cheshire Rifle Volunteers. He was JP for the Counties of Chester and Lancaster and the City of Manchester. He

Eldest son by his first wife of Dr John Atherstone, who married Elizabeth Damant, of Fakenham. He probably came from Atherstone in Warwickshire, she of a Flemish family settled in Norfolk after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Commissary-General John Damant married into the Korsten family, of

Martin Allgöwer was chair and professor of surgery at the University of Basle, Switzerland. He was born in St Gallen, Switzerland, on 5 May 1917. He received his education at St Gallen and studied medicine at Geneva, Zürich and Basle. After qualifying, he was resident in the department of surgery

Born at 2 Rodney Street, Liverpool, the house of his father, Robert Bickersteth, FRCS (qv). He entered the Liverpool School of Medicine in 1845 and later studied in Edinburgh and at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, visiting also Dublin and Paris before qualifying as MRCS. At Edinburgh he was House

Born at Liverpool on October 4th, 1862, the son of Edward Robert Bickersteth (qv); was educated under Dr Hornby at Eton, which he entered in 1872. He was admitted a Pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, on June 13th, 1881, and graduated BA with first-class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in

William Henry Bickersteth, entered in the College Calendar as Henry Bickersteth, was born in 1813 and became distinguished both as a Physician and as Surgeon to the Somerset Hospital, Cape Town. He died at Cape Town on Aug 6th, 1862, and in the Medical Circular (1865, NS. xxvi, 447) there appeared t

Son of Leonard Bidwell, Chief Clerk in the General Post Office. Educated at Blackheath School, and entered St Thomas’s Hospital in 1882, where he was a House Surgeon. He then studied in Paris, was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the West London Hospital in 1891, and became Surgeon in 1906. There he d

Received his medical education in Birmingham and at Westminster Hospital. Was for several years House Surgeon at the General Hospital, Birmingham, where he established a reputation as a sound thinker, a good practical surgeon, and one of the ablest and most respected practitioners of Birmingham. Lat