Born in Tavistock Place, London, on Jan. 1st, 1811, the son of Daniel Curling, F.S.A., Secretary to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, and Elizabeth, daughter of William Blizard and sister of Sir William Blizard. He was educated at The Manor House, Chiswick, and was afterwards apprenticed t

Born at Great Yarmouth on Jan. 11th, 1814, the eighth of seventeen children of Samuel Paget by Sarah Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Thomas Tolver, of Chester. Sir George Edward Paget (1809-1892), Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge, was a brother. The father was a brewer and a shipowner who se

Was for many years Surgeon to the Gloucester Infirmary (County Hospital), where until his retirement he took the lead as an operator. He was also at one time Surgeon to the Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry. He was described as a man of excellent heart and generous disposition. His death occurred at

Born at Penzance, the younger son of Thomas Coulson, master painter in Devon-port Dockyard, and a friend of Humphry Davy. His mother was Catherine Borlase. He was educated, partly at the local Grammar School, and then in Brittany, where he learnt to speak French well. He was apprenticed to a Penzanc

Son of the Rev John Cleoburey and Margaretta his wife, was baptized at St Helen's Church, Abingdon, on Aug 17th, 1793. He was educated at Abingdon School, for he recited there twice on Speech Day, 1805. He was apprenticed to Mr Short, one of the surgeons of the Bedford Infirmary, and completed his m

Born on September 18th, 1811, at Gibraltar, where his father, a military officer, was stationed. He used to say that for recurring fits when a younger man he had been bled from the arm twenty-five times in the course of a year, besides having some four dozen leeches applied, and had yet continued st

Born on July 18th, 1776, the eldest son of the Rev Robert Pitcairn, of Brasenose College, Oxford, Vicar of English Combe, Somerset, and Incumbent of Spring Chapel, London. The family originated in Pitcairn, Fifeshire, and to it belonged the two well-known physicians – William Pitcairn, MD (1711-1791

Born at Coventry on March 29th, 1780; was educated at King Edward’s Grammar School. He was then apprenticed to George Freer, of Birmingham, the author of *Aneurysm and some Diseases of the Arterial System* (1807), who evidently inspired his pupils with higher aims that the mere routine of practice,

Born on Sept 9th, 1780, at Kessingland, a village on the Suffolk coast, where his father occupied a large farm. His mother, who was a daughter of the Rev J Henchman, died while he was an infant, and he was placed in charge of his uncle by marriage, the Rev W Clubbe, Vicar of Brandeston. Mr Clubbe, a

Son [1] of Thomas Alcock, a medical man practising at Ealing. Educated at Westminster Hospital, where he filled the post of House Surgeon, and in 1832 was appointed Surgeon to the British Portuguese forces acting in Portugal. In 1836 he was transferred to the Marine Brigade engaged in the Carlist wa

Born at Upton-on-Severn on Dec. 1st, 1798, the second of the six children of George Skey, a Russian merchant in London. He was educated at one or two private schools in early life, the last being that of the Rev. Michael Maurice, the Unitarian preacher, father of Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872

Born at Penrith, Cumberland, the son of a Birmingham merchant. He was educated at King Edward VI's Grammar School and was apprenticed to George Freer, who was Surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital from December, 1793, to the day of his death in December, 1823. Hodgson thus had much experience a