Born at Lancaster of a medical family settled there for a hundred years. His grandfather and father both practised in the town. His father, Christopher Johnson, senr, was an Edinburgh graduate, and for more than half a century a leading practitioner who cultivated both literature and science. His el

Received his professional education at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals. At the time of his death he was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London, a member of the Royal College of Chemistry, and of the Epidemiological, London Meteorological, and Norfolk and West Suffolk Archaeological Societies,

Born at Lynn. He was articled, it is believed, to Mr Morris, surgeon, of Gosberton, Lincolnshire, and after qualifying returned to his native town, where he was elected House Surgeon to the Lynn Dispensary, continuing in this office till the institution was dissolved. He then became partner with Tho

Born at Burnley, in Lancashire, where his father was a surgeon. He completed his medical education in Dublin and settled in his native place in 1836, where he practised for the rest of his life. At the time of his death he was a Vice-President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch of the British Med

A member of one of the oldest families in Montgomeryshire; he practised at Welshpool, near Montgomery, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary, to the Parish of Welshpool, to the Pool and Montgomeryshire Workhouse, and later on Medical Officer to the Forden Union Workhouse and to the Royal Montgomery

Apprenticed to Messrs Lodge and Walton, of Preston, and began to practise at Clitheroe. In 1873 he moved to Lytham, where, attending only personal friends, he acted as JP for the County of Lancaster and was one of the Local Improvement Commissioners at Lytham until the change in the constitution of

Educated at University College and Hospital. He practised first at Bideford, where he was Magistrate and JP for the Borough. He lived latterly at Berkeley Villa, Cheltenham, and died there in 1870.

Born in Antigua in 1837, studied at Dublin, then acted as Ship's Surgeon on board a Cunard mail steamer. He settled in practice at Boston, Lincolnshire, where he was one of the founders of the Boston Hospital in 1871, begun by accommodating patients in two cottages in Irby Street. He was a Medical O

Born at Devonport in 1808 and served his apprenticeship with a local surgeon, Tripp. He studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, at the Aldersgate Street School of Medicine, and in Paris. In 1831 he volunteered for the Polish Army, then at war with Russia, was appointed Chief Surgeon to the Nyazdowa Ho

Educated in Dublin, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in Paris. He practised at Burton-on-Trent in partnership with Robert Sherratt Tomlinson, and was at one period Surgeon to the Dispensary, to the Union, and to the Infirmary, of which latter institution he was Consulting Surgeon at the time of his

Educated at University College, London. He practised at Bideford, Devon, and was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London and a member of the Harveian Society. He died on December 3rd, 1890. Publications: Thompson contributed papers on various subjects to the *British Medical Journal*, incl

Son of Andrew Adams, a wholesale draper at Plymouth, and of Eliza Oake his wife. Born at Plymouth on July 4th, 1842, and after education at a private school was apprenticed to W Joseph Square (qv), Surgeon to the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital. Entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital, after being