John Pyne was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich and West Norwich hospitals, and also worked privately at the BUPA Hospital Norwich in Colney, Norfolk. One of nature's true gentlemen, he had a courteous approach to his many grateful patients, his colleagues, junior staff and

Born at Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, 17 January 1857, the second child and eldest son of Thomas Bickerton, FRCS Ed and Elizabeth Green, his wife. His father began life as a general surgeon and then devoted himself to the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, and throat, being more particularly intere

Born 12 November 1866 the fourth son of Thomas Frederick Grimsdale (1823-1902), MRCS 1845, of 29 Rodney Street, Liverpool, a leading gynaecologist (see *Brit med J* 1902, 2, 919; *Lancet*, 1902, 2, 712) and Jane Bury, his wife, who lived till her hundredth year. An elder son Thomas Babington Grimsda

John Henry Walsh, better known by his pen name 'Stonehenge', was born at Hackney, London, on October 21st, 1810, the son of Benjamin Walsh. He was educated privately, and after qualifying became Surgeon to the Ophthalmic Institution. He lectured for a time on surgery and descriptive anatomy at the A

Born in the island of Barbados on March 3rd, 1816, the eleventh son of John Walton, Provost Marshal. He was the last born of twenty-three children. He himself became six feet in height, yet was the shortest of his brothers, for his father's ancestors - Yorkshiremen - were of gigantic stature; his mo

Born at Warkworth, Northumberland on 24 August 1854, the third son of the Rev J Woodham Dunn, Vicar of Warkworth, and Sarah Emily, second daughter of the Rev Luke Yarker of Leyburn Hall, Yorkshire. He received his education at Richmond Grammar School in Yorkshire, at the Clapham Grammar School, at S

Born 21 September 1858 at 8 Morden Terrace, Lewisham, fourth child and third son of Francis Taylor, of the Audit Office, and Eliza Deakin, his wife. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, entering in 1870, and at St George's Hospital Medical School, where he was Brackenbury prizeman and Thomps

Born 2nd March, 1836, son of John Watson, who practised for fifty years in Bloomsbury; entered Merchant Taylors' School, Sept, 1843, gained the Warneford Entrance Scholarship at King's College, and the Senior Warneford Scholarship in Medicine. He practised at 8 Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, an

Born in London 15 July 1874, the third son of Edward Henry Physick Eason, auctioneer and surveyor, of Bishopsgate, and his wife Mary Ann Moore. He nearly died of double pneumonia at the age of eleven, and was educated at a private school in Dulwich, at University College, London, and at Guy's Hospit

Born on 1 December 1868 at 1 Welclose Place, Blackman Square, Leeds, the elder son and third child of Alfred Whitehead, cloth manufacturer, and Elizabeth Longley, his wife. He was educated at the Leeds Grammar School, at the Yorkshire College, and at the Leeds School of Medicine. He served as house

Born 4 May 1876, the only child of George Mayou, MD, and Adela Coombes Showers, his wife; his father was in practice at Monmouth. He was educated at the Hereford Cathedral School and at King's College Hospital, where he won the Warneford scholarship and the Jelf medal in 1896. He gained the Jacksoni

Jonathan Hutchinson, like his distinguished father Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, was surgeon to the London Hospital. When he was born at Reigate in 1859 it was still possible for a surgeon to be encyclopaedic. Few advances had been made: Lister was still a physiologist; anaesthesia was on its trial; the