The younger brother of James Rumsey (qv), to whom he dedicated his Bonn Doctorial Thesis, published in London in 1837 with the title, *De placenta disrupta*. The copy in the College Library was presented by the author as displaying a physiological process, the disposal of the dismembered placenta wh

Born on November 19th, 1786, at 1 Newhall Street, Birmingham, the son of George Russell by his wife Martha, daughter of John Skey. His father, a Birmingham merchant, ruined at the outset of the American War, was a Unitarian and a prominent member of the congregation of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804).

Was a surgeon in the Royal Navy in 1830. He died at his residence, 9 Park Road Terrace, Forest Hill, Sydenham, on October 1st, 1860.

Born on July 4th, 1771. He was appointed Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment, on April 8th, 1794, and on June 16th, 1795, became Surgeon, without purchase, to the 5th Dragoon Guards. His war record is remarkable. He served under the Duke of York in Holland and in Ireland

Was one of the first pupils of Henry Clark (qv) at Bristol in his newly opened 'Theatre of Anatomy' in 1826, when there were only seven or eight in the class. He went afterwards to St Bartholomew's Hospital, and, returning to Bristol, lectured for many years on surgery and descriptive anatomy at wha

Educated at Manchester and Edinburgh. He early directed his attention to the treatment of the insane, and in 1840 was appointed Medical Superintendent of the large Asylum for the County of Lancaster, at a time when the treatment of the insane in England was only just beginning to emerge from a long-

At the time of his death Gepp was senior MSA, having taken his diploma as long before as 1791. For fifty-seven years he had been surgeon to the Gaol and House of Correction at Chelmsford and Springfield. He was one of the first surgeons to be elected a Fellow, and he died at Chelmsford on December 1

Born on October 21st, 1782. He entered the Army on November 12th, 1805, as Surgeon's Mate on the hospital staff, not attached to a Regiment, and was gazetted Assistant Surgeon of the 95th Foot on November 21st, 1805. He was promoted Surgeon of the 40th Foot on September 3rd, 1812, and retired on hal

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

Born at Penzance on March 13th, 1785. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Madras Army on July 15th, 1805, but on joining HM 30th Foot without leave of the HEIC he was discharged in 1807. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 30th Foot on December 27th, 1806; promoted Surgeon to the 83rd Foo

Entered as a six months' pupil under Everard Home at St George's Hospital on October 19th, 1804. He practised at Pontefract and died before 1882.

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