Practised at Nottingham, where he was surgeon to the General Hospital, and having become Consulting Surgeon, his opinion continued to be highly and deservedly valued throughout the Midland Counties. He died at 40 Pelham Street Nottingham, on January 7th 1868.

Was one of the twenty children of Thomas Verney Okes, Surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, a medical author in extensive practice. John Okes's brother, Dr Richard Okes (d1888), was Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and editor of *Musae Etonienses* (new series 1796-1833). John Okes was

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital at a time when Sir James Earle, John Abernethy, and John Painter Vincent were its leading surgeons. He was a favourite with Abernethy, who reposed great trust in him, and whose house at 14 Bedford Row he afterwards occupied for over thirty years of a successful

The youngest child of Edmund Turner (d1821), banker, of Truro, and of Joanna his wife, daughter of Richard Ferris, was born at Truro on Aug 18th, 1793. He was educated at the Grammar School of his native town during the head-mastership of Cornelius Cardew, and was apprenticed to Nehemiah Duck, one o

Entered St George's Hospital as a twelve-months surgical pupil to Benjamin Brodie in September, 1823. He practised at 11 Bigg Market, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and died at Westoe after a long illness on December 6th, 1855.

Richard Hey, Surgeon to the York County Hospital and to the Institute for the Blind, lectured on Surgery at the York School of Medicine and was Surgeon to the Female Penitentiary. He lived at Minsteryard, York, and died on September 1st, 1860, whilst visiting Ellesborough Rectory, Buckinghamshire.

William Hey III, son of William Hey II (qv), was born on December 23rd, 1796, the eldest of four brothers. He was appointed Surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary in 1830, and succeeded to the practice of his father on the latter's death in 1844; he held the position of Surgeon until 1851, when he became Co

The eldest son of E T Cox, a well-known Birmingham surgeon (1769-1863). After education at King Edward VI Grammar School and at the General Hospital, Birmingham, he studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, (1821-1823), and at the École de Médecine, Paris (1824). Early in his career he conceived

Was born at Shepton Mallet, in Somersetshire, in August, 1800, and received his elementary education under Mr Rogers, of Dursley, and Mr Mules, of Ilminster. He was apprenticed for five years to Richard Smith, Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1796-1843, for a fee of two hundred guineas. H

Born on September 30th, 1805, the eldest son and second child of Jonathan William Crompton, a merchant living in Edgbaston, by his wife Martha Webster, of Penns. He was sent at an early age as a pupil to G E Male, Physician to the General Hospital at Birmingham from 1805-1816. He was afterwards appr

Born on April 30th, 1801, the son of Jeremiah Pilcher, of Winkfield, Berkshire. He began to practise in Dean Street, Soho, as soon as he had qualified, and was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery at the Webb Street School of Medicine in Snow's Fields, then belonging to his brother

The son of a Suffolk yeoman, born near Stowmarket, in which town he was apprenticed at an early age to Mr Bailey, the surgeon-apothecary, whose daughter he married in 1815. After his apprenticeship he studied at St George's Hospital and at the Windmill Street School of Anatomy, where he soon gained