Went to Bury St Edmunds Grammar School, then to Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, to which the fame of Sir Astley Cooper attracted him as it did others. He settled in practice at Framlingham, Suffolk, and there gained for himself the honour of being amongst the first in England to remove an ovarian c

Born on June 14th, 1788, at Ashton-under-Lyne, the son of a highly respected solicitor. He was sent to several small private schools unsuited to a delicate young boy. His father intended him for a solicitor, but the boy hated desk work, had a taste for drawing, and a love of angling and books about

Received his early professional education under William Travis, of Scarborough, remaining with him till he came of age. He afterwards attended the Medical Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and spent a short period in those of Paris. He began to practise in York at the age of 25, and was so

He was perhaps a son of William Kent, surgeon, of Nantwich, who died in February, 1831. He was educated at St George's Hospital, where he entered as a twelve months surgical pupil to Sir Everard Home on October 5th, 1826. He was a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, reached his Seniority on July 20th, 1838,

Born in 1792, about 1809 and 1810 was a Surgeon's Assistant in the Royal Cumberland Militia, and in a General Military Hospital. In 1819 he went to Scarborough and from 1821 was in partnership with William Fraser for thirty years. Both died within a few weeks of one another - Dunn on February 4th, 1

The following obituary was published in Volume 1 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Practised at Margate, where he died on June 7th, 1859. The following obituary was written and submitted in 2019. Joshua Waddington was a surgeon in Margate and a contemporary of the poet John Keats at Guy’s

Entered King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1810; apprenticed to his uncle in Elgin in 1812, then became a clinical pupil at the Aberdeen Infirmary. He entered Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals in 1815 and studied anatomy and surgery under Joshua Brookes at the Blenheim Street School, and midwifery under Mer

Educated at Manchester and Edinburgh. He early directed his attention to the treatment of the insane, and in 1840 was appointed Medical Superintendent of the large Asylum for the County of Lancaster, at a time when the treatment of the insane in England was only just beginning to emerge from a long-

The eldest son of William Clement, a practitioner long established in Shrewsbury. He was educated at Shrewsbury School under Dr Butler, at the Middlesex Hospital under Sir Charles Bell, and at the University of Edinburgh. He settled in practice in his birthplace, Shrewsbury, where he acquired a larg

Born on June 11th, 1795, and received his medical education at the Hunterian School, the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, Trinity College, Dublin, the University of Dublin, and St George's Hospital. In 1818 he joined the Fusilier Guards, and his distinguished service in that regiment lasted ove

Born in Wrexham, the son of Thomas Griffith, who for many years practised as a surgeon in the town. He was educated at the local Grammar School, and after serving an apprenticeship to his father, received his professional training at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, where he took Sir Astley Cooper's

Educated at St George's Hospital, where he was entered as a six-months pupil to Thomas Keate in June, 1812, and in November of that year took out a further six-months ticket. He entered the Royal Navy in 1813, and served as Surgeon on board HMS *President*, HMS *Salisbury*, and HMS *Melville* betwee