Born at Rothley, Leicestershire on 2 February 1873 the second son of J H Skevington JP, a farmer, and his wife Emma Kirkham, he was educated at Oakham, Rutlandshire and at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he served as house surgeon. After a period as clinical assistant at the Great Ormond Street Ho

Practised at Newton Heath, Manchester, where he was Medical Officer of the Newton District and the Prestwich Union, and a Certifying Factory Surgeon. He died at Newton Heath on December 8th, 1862.

The son of John Atkinson Ransome (qv); studied at the Manchester Medical School in 1824. Thence he went to Guy's Hospital and the Universities of Edinburgh and Paris. He practised at 1 St Peter's Square, Manchester. Serving as Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary from 1843-1866, he delivered the Introduc

The son of Henry Ransom, Trinity Street, Cambridge; studied at University College, London, and then practised at Cambridge, where he was Medical Officer of Health and District Surgeon to the Railways. He served on the Town Council from November, 1858, to October, 1863, when he was appointed Surgeon

Practised at Darlaston, Staffordshire, where he died on September 22nd, 1868.

Dipak Bhatia was head of India's national family planning programme in the 1960s. He was born in Punjab on 27 November 1909 and educated in Lahore, leaving high school at the age of 14. After receiving an MB BS degree from Lahore Medical College, he went to England and stayed in London for a few yea

Born on January 27th, 1820, and belonged to the Scottish family of Innes-Kers. He studied at University College Hospital, London, and joined the Army Medical Service as Assistant Surgeon to the 78th Foot. He was gazetted to the Dragoon Guards in January, 1846, to the 83rd Foot in May, 1847, to the S

Was for many years Surgeon to the Dublin Metropolitan Police, and gained such a reputation that older members of the Force were accustomed to ask to see their old doctor after his retirement. At one time he was Lecturer and Professor of Midwifery and Diseases of Females and Children, also of Physiol

Studied at the University of Edinburgh, also at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised in Crown Square, Penrith, Cumberland. He died in Barrett's Hotel, Cecil Street, Strand, London, on May 21st, 1870, having apparently already retired from practice.

Belonged to a family prominent through several generations at East Stonehouse between Plymouth and Devonport, where for many years his father was in practice. He, too, practised at East Stonehouse for some twenty years until 1859. From 1856 he was in partnership with Christopher Bulteel, who was Sur

Born at Parkhill, Croydon, the son of William Smith, a London solicitor, a native of the County of Hereford. He was educated at Croydon and then at Harrow, where he entered in January, 1834, and left in 1837. He acquired a good knowledge of Latin and Greek, which in after-life enabled him to make ap

Born in London on September 12th, 1812, the younger son of George Spencer Smith, an estate agent, by Martha, his wife. He was educated at Enfield, and entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1832 as an apprentice of Frederic Carpenter Skey (qv), with whom he lived and whose House Surgeon he afterwards