Born in December, 1822; went to the Grammar School, Wem, Shropshire, was apprenticed to his father, then he studied at Edinburgh under Syme and at King's College Hospital, London. Both his father and grandfather, Edward Gwynn, junior and senior, were surgeons at Wem, and he joined his father and pra

After being Resident Medical Officer at the Stoke Newington Dispensary, practised at 269 Mare Street, Hackney, in partnership with Francis Toulmin (qv) and Frederick Toulmin, MRCS, under the names of Toulmin Brothers, and Toulmin and Hacon. He was Surgeon to the 1st (King's Own) Light Infantry Regim

Kenneth Fowler Wood, or 'Ken' to his colleagues and friends, was a general surgeon in Leicester. He was born in Manchester on 6 July 1923. There was no history of medicine in the family and his father, Maurice Herbert Wood, worked in Customs and Excise. His mother was Nellie Asquith Wood née Fowler.

Born at Lincoln on 3 February 1880, the fifth child and third son of Henry Clarke, master dyer and cleaner, and Sally Shooter Jackson, his wife. He was educated at Lincoln Grammar School and at St Mary's Hospital, where he won the senior scholarship in natural science, a scholarship in pathology, an

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised for many years as a surgeon at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, being joined after a time by Henry Cribb as partner. He lived at The Chantry, and was Medical Officer to the Hockeril Training College and Certifying Factory Surgeon. He retired to B

See Hodgson, Charles Frederick.

Sir Andrew Watt Kay was regius professor of surgery at Glasgow and an archetypal Scottish academic surgeon. Known by surgical trainees worldwide through his book *A textbook of surgical physiology* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone, 1959), written with R Ainslie Jamieson, Kay stood alongside many

Paul Winchester Houghton was a general surgeon in Worcester, and served with distinction in the Second World War. He was born in west London into a naval family on 30 September 1911 and was educated at Whitgift School. Until his last days he could remember the hunger caused by rationing during the F

Brian Higgs was a consultant general surgeon in Wycombe and Amersham. He was born in Bedford on 21 June 1935, and was educated at Bedford College and then Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied medicine. In 1957 he went on to Westminster Hospital Medical School, where he won several prizes, incl

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised at The Friars, Canterbury, acted as Surgeon to the Canterbury Hospital, to the Prison, to the Police, to the 3rd Division of the Blean Union, and to various battalions of Kent Volunteers. He was also JP for Canterbury City. He died at Latchmere Hous

Born on January 12th, 1837, the eldest son of John William Hooper, of Bathwick, Somerset. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and entered the Indian Medical Service as Assistant Surgeon, Bengal Army, on Feb 10th, 1859. After military duty for two years he spent the rest of his time in Indi

Practised as a surgeon at Micklegate, York. He was for twelve years Lecturer on Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology in the York School of Medicine, and died on or before June 27th, 1853.