The son of a cheesemonger in the Bullstake Haymarket at Sheffield; was apprenticed to William Staniforth, sent, one of the first three Surgeons elected to the Sheffield General Infirmary when it was opened in 1797. Staniforth was not only a surgeon with a local reputation as an oculist, but he was t

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.

David Bailey was a consultant surgeon at University College Hospital (UCH). He was born on 1 March 1922. Qualifying in medicine from the University of Cambridge and UCH his first post was at the latter. After proceeding to the Royal Northern Hospital and Barnet General Hospital as consultant surgeon

Was for many years Surgeon to the Gloucester Infirmary (County Hospital), where until his retirement he took the lead as an operator. He was also at one time Surgeon to the Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry. He was described as a man of excellent heart and generous disposition. His death occurred at

Mervyn Dunning was a consultant general surgeon in Shrewsbury. He was educated at Hampton Grammar School, London. He initially trained as a dentist at the Royal Dental Hospital, qualifying in 1941. He held junior posts, as a house surgeon and then senior house surgeon in maxillofacial surgery. He t

Mohammad Khan was a consultant general surgeon at East Reach Hospital, Taunton Somerset. He qualified in the Punjab in 1957 and gained the fellowship of both the College and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1975. He died on 21 August 2009, survived by a daughter.

Born on October 16th, 1775; entered the Army as Surgeon's Mate on December 1st, 1796, on the hospital staff unattached to a regiment. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 68th Foot on October 22nd, 1801, Surgeon to the 1st West India Regiment on February 25th, 1804, and was promoted to the staff

The second son of the Rev Charles Hartley, Rector of Stocking Pelham, Hertfordshire; he studied at King's College, Middlesex, and London Hospitals, and was a prizeman in Anatomy and Midwifery. He served the offices of House Surgeon, House Physician, and Resident Obstetric Assistant, at Middlesex Hos

Born at Pointon, Staffordshire, in March, 1803; studied at the Windmill Street School of Medicine and at Middlesex Hospital. Having qualified, he was the first House Surgeon of the General Dispensary, Lincoln, for two years. He afterwards practised successfully in Lincoln and the neighbourhood for n

Educated at Guy's Hospital; after a few years in general practice he restricted his attention to aural disease, being contemporary with Joseph Toynbee and James Yearsley. He was Aural Surgeon to the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear, to the Freemasons' Asylum for Female Children, and to the G

Studied at University College Hospital, and later was Surgeon to the St Marylebone Infirmary. He then practised at Tenbury, Worcestershire, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary; next at Hunmanby, Yorkshire, where he was Assistant Surgeon to the 2nd East Yorkshire Artillery Volunteers. He died at H

The son of the Rev W Jennings, of Baydon, Wiltshire. He studied at King's College, London, and the Middlesex Hospital, and practised for ten years at Lacock, Wiltshire, where he was Surgeon to the Lacock Asylum for Women and Children and to the Chippenham Union. He then moved to Malmesbury, where he