At the age of 17 he obtained a commission in the Militia. He was educated at University College Hospital, where he acted as House Surgeon. He was afterwards Ambulance Surgeon to the Northern Hospital, Liverpool, and Surgeon on the RMS *City of Berlin*. In 1888 he was Resident Medical Officer at Swan

The second of the four sons of Sir John Fife (qv), who was the leading operator in the North of England, and a founder of the Newcastle College of Medicine. His mother was a Miss Bainbridge, and his paternal grandfather was a Scottish medical man who settled in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the n

Born in London on August 23rd, 1831, the second son of William Lawson, of the firm of Trower, Trower & Lawson, wine merchants of the City of London, by his wife, Anne Norton. After being educated at the Blackheath Proprietary School he entered King's College in 1848 and served for a year as House Su

Born in India, the second son of Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, Bart, GCB, GCSI, who in turn was the youngest son of David Pollock, of Charing Cross, saddler to George III, and had married in 1810 his first wife, Frances Webbe, daughter of T Barclay, Sheriff of Tain. George David Pollock's two un

Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He was at one time Surgeon, and then Senior Surgeon, to the Leicester Infirmary, having retired from this post some seven or eight years before his death, at which time he was Surgeon to the County Lunatic Asylum. He was a well-known figure locally, a goo

Born in 1829 or 1830; studied at St George's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, and afterwards acted as Resident Attendant to a nobleman who left him a handsome sum of money in recognition of his services. This led him to become FRCS, and he succeeded in being elected Assistant Surgeon to St Geor

Born at 39 College Green, Bristol, on July 16th, 1818, the second son of James Cowles Prichard, FRS, a physician, famous as the author of *The Natural History of Man*. His mother was the daughter of Dr Estlin, Unitarian Minister and Co-Pastor at Lewin's Mead Chapel, a scholar and friend of Coleridge

Born in New Jersey, USA, and educated at Queen's College, Belfast, at Liverpool, and at King's College Hospital. After acting as House Surgeon at the Royal Southern Hospital under Sir Robert Jones, and at the Manchester Ship Canal Hospital, he was for ten years Medical Officer to the Buenos Ayres Po

Born in London in 1847, and educated at St Olave's Grammar School, Southwark, and at King's College, Strand, where he obtained a Warneford Scholarship. After passing through his medical training he was appointed House Physician to the Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich in 1872. In 1873 he turned his att

Born in 1799, his mother being the daughter of Dr Madan, Bishop of Peterborough, and the 'Miss Madan' of the poet Cowper's correspondence. This lady died when her son was young, and his education was undertaken by an aunt. After apprenticeship he became a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1819

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he matriculated in 1828. He was at one time Medical Officer of the Cholera Hospital and Revenue Police, and Assistant Surgeon of the Royal Infirmary, Ennis, then Medical Officer of the Dispensary and Constabulary, Killard, Ireland. At the time of his death

Practised in Birmingham, and was Surgeon to the Edgbaston Eye Infirmary. In 1835 he gained the Jacksonian Prize for an essay on "Injuries and Diseases of the Larynx, also of the Trachea and its Treatment", which was afterwards published (8vo, London, 1837; Philadelphia, 1838, 1841). He was much este