John Lowry was a distinguished consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon. He was born on 6 June 1942 in Timperley, Cheshire, the son of Leslie and Betty Lowry. From Altrincham Grammar School, Cheshire, he went to the University of Manchester Turner Dental School and qualified BDS in 1963. He was a h

Son of James William Braine (qv), a medical man in large practice; born at St James’s Square, London, on December 28th, 1837, the eldest of eleven children. He entered St George’s Hospital in 1854, and was successively House Surgeon, Surgical Registrar, and Demonstrator of Anatomy. He acted as priv

Ronald William Raven was born on 28 July 1904 and educated at Ulverston Grammar School. He trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital where he qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1928. He was demonstrater in anatomy at Barts from 1929 to 1931, registrar in statistics at the National Radium Commission

Born at Carlisle, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he acted as Assistant to Sir Thomas Fraser, FRS, Regius Professor of Medicine, and subsequently became Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical School. He was highly appreciated by Sir Thomas, and, pursuing a careful course of st

Born at Hoath, near Canterbury, and was educated at Guy's Hospital. He was elected President of the Physical Society, and it was before this Society that, in 1869, he read the paper on "Nephrotomy and Excision of the Kidney" which is said to have led to the use at Guy's Hospital of operative measure

The second son of William Hussey, solicitor, Chapter Clerk of Rochester and Mayor of Maidstone in 1838, his mother being Anna Maria, daughter of Charles Law, of Calcutta. He was born on April 6th, 1816, was educated at Rochester Cathedral Grammar School, and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hosp

The son of a gifted medical practitioner in Brazil who died whilst his son was an infant; he was brought up by a devoted mother, who was herself a proficient linguist. She had set before him the course of a medical missionary, directing him in his medical career and in the reading of missionary biog

Born on September 27th 1840, at Castle Street, Holborn. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, where his father was master of the modern side. He entered the school early in 1854, and left in 1855 to be apprenticed to Josiah Pritchard, a surgeon in Loughborough. He then served as an unquali

Born at Peterhead, Scotland on 23 March 1878, eldest child of the Rev John Robinson Cleminson of Hull, and Alice Millican, his wife. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, at University College Hospital, London, and at the University of Pennsylvania, Phi

Born at Brading, Isle of Wight, on March 23rd, 1870, the son of Edward Canny Ryall, MRCS, of Ennis, who traced his descent from one of Cromwell's officers settled in Ireland; he had served through the Crimean and the Indian Mutiny in the Army Medical Service, dying in 1880. He married Elizabeth, dau

Michael Burton was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Hillingdon and Ealing hospitals. He was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on 28 July 1926, the second son of Rennie Cooksey, a general practitioner, and Elsie Jane née Laycock, the daughter of an adviser in music. He began

Educated at the Windmill Street School and at St George's Hospital. He very early showed himself to be an accomplished anatomist and a skilful surgeon, but when he applied (1834) for an appointment as Assistant Surgeon at his old hospital he was rejected after a very severe contest, in favour of Edw