Born on March 9th, 1788, and on November 12th, 1812, was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 29th Foot. He retired on half pay on June 22nd, 1820, and was struck off the half-pay list in 1841, when he had received no half pay for two years. On July 13th, 1822, he had joined the HEICS at Madras as Assi

Born on September 29th, 1788. On January 25th, 1814, he was appointed from Ensign (May 13th, 1811) and Surgeon's Mate, 2nd West Riding York Militia, to be Ensign and Surgeon's Mate, 3rd Provisional Battalion of Militia, and on the reduction of that battalion in the same year was placed on half pay u

A surgeon in the Royal Navy; died at Wickham Villa, New Cross, London, SE, on October 4th, 1860.

Studied at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, the École de Médecine, Paris, and King's College, London. In 1835 he became a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, and in 1846 gained the prize which Sir Gilbert Mane had instituted in 1829 for the best journal kept by a naval surgeon. Latterly he was Staff Su

Born at Hackney, the son of John Jackson, on Nov 17th, 1804; he was educated at St Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, and University College Hospital; entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on June 27th, 1830; was promoted Surgeon March 1st, 1847; became Presidency Surgeon, Calcutta, Physician to th

Born on March 10th, 1786. From October 10th, 1813, to February 21st, 1816, he was a Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment, and on February 22nd, 1816, became Hospital Assistant to the Forces. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the Royal York Rangers on April 17th, 1817,

The third of six sons of George Harrison; was for more than fifty years a prominent man in Chester as Surgeon to the Infirmary, then Consulting Surgeon, also three times Mayor. His eldest brother, George, practised as a partner with his father until his death about 1850. Another brother, Job, MRCS,

Practised in Church Street, Lancaster. He had among his apprentices Richard Owen (qv), transferred to him in 1823 by Joseph Seed, who had become a naval surgeon. Harrison's pupils had access to the County Gaol, and carried out post-mortem examinations, which served to interest Owen in anatomy, as is

Born on April 21st, 1815, the second son of Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, FAS (qv), the medical biographer, which explains the strangeness of his second christian name. His grandfather had been a Surgeon in the Royal Navy before he settled in practice in London. Pettigrew was admitted to Westminster Sch

Practised at Newcastle-under-Lyme, where he was Surgeon to the North Staffordshire Infirmary. After about 1850 he went to live in Italy, and died in or before 1890.

Son of James Ware, FRS, surgeon and ophthalmologist (1756-1815), of whom there is an account in the *Dictionary of National Biography*. He practised for many years as a surgeon at 51 Russell Square, London, WC, and later at 18 Gordon Square. He edited some of his father's works - *Observations on th

Entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on March 31st, 1805; he was promoted Surgeon on March 22nd, 1818, Superintending Surgeon on July 24th, 1833 and on March 1st, 1843, was made a member of the Medical Board and Inspector-General of Hospitals. He was promoted to Surgeon General on July 23rd,