The second son of E M Greenhow, MD, for many years a popular medical practitioner in North Shields. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and served for about two years as an Assistant Surgeon in the Army. He settled in practice at Newcastle in 1817 and was soon appointed Surgeon to the Lying-in

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

Born in November, 1806, the only son of Henry Jackson, a distinguished surgeon of Sheffield; he was himself well educated and followed his father as a prominent surgeon in large practice in Sheffield. He was a pupil of William Staniforth, junr, in 1825, and was elected Surgeon to the Sheffield Gener

Was at one time Senior Surgeon of the Metropolitan Free Hospital, Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Surgery at the Hunterian School of Medicine, and President of the Harveian Society, 1843-1844. In the eventful year of railway speculation Lucas became a victim to the prevailing mania, and t

The son of an Irish country surgeon who had been a pupil of John Abernethy. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in October, 1816, and was for twenty years Surgeon to the Finsbury Dispensary, and temporarily to the Fever Hospital. He was also Consulting Surgeon to St Anne's Society Schools and to th

One of the three sons of John Taunton (1769-1821), anatomist and surgeon, of Hatton Garden, who founded, and was first Surgeon of, the City of London Truss Society. An account of him is in the *Dictionary of National Biography*. John Colley Taunton succeeded his father as Surgeon to the Truss Societ

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, was a pupil of Abernethy, and won distinction for the ease and rapidity with which he passed his examinations. William Lawrence was one of his contemporaries. Before he was twenty he became assistant to William Newnham, of Farnham in Surrey, who was famous as a

Born at Manchester and studied at the Infirmary there. After the death of Joshua Brookes he joined Thomas King in opening the Blenheim Street School of Anatomy, and afterwards became Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology at Westminster Hospital Medical School. He practised in Delahay Street, close to t

The son of Charles Lestourgeon and was born at Edmonton, Middlesex. He was educated at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and at the age of 16 was admitted a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, on May 21st, 1824. He was elected a scholar of the College in 1827, and graduated BA as 15th Wrangler in 1828,

Studied medicine at the Bristol Infirmary under Henry Daniel, and matriculated at the London University, being one of the earliest students on the University roll. He gained the Gold Medal for Surgery and the Silver Medal for Anatomy and Physiology. In 1829 he went to Paris, and returned upon the ou

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. He practised at Liverpool as Surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary until his retirement in 1874, when he was appointed Consulting Surgeon. For a time he was Surgeon to the Northern Hospital and Northern Dispens

The second son of John Syme, of Cartmore and Lochore in the Kingdom of Fife, was born at 56 Princes Street, Edinburgh, on November 7th, 1799, his father being a Writer to the Signet. He received most of his early education at the Edinburgh High School and spent much of his spare time working with Ro