The son of the Rev Isaac Hurst, of Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire, and grandson of the Rev Robert H Hurst, at one time Incumbent of Newton Blossomville, Buckingham. He went to Christ's Hospital, and was then apprenticed to Charles Short, of Bedford. He next entered Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals and a

Born on April 30th, 1801, the son of Jeremiah Pilcher, of Winkfield, Berkshire. He began to practise in Dean Street, Soho, as soon as he had qualified, and was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery at the Webb Street School of Medicine in Snow's Fields, then belonging to his brother

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital at a time when Sir James Earle, John Abernethy, and John Painter Vincent were its leading surgeons. He was a favourite with Abernethy, who reposed great trust in him, and whose house at 14 Bedford Row he afterwards occupied for over thirty years of a successful

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

Born on May 29th, 1812, his father, of an old Monmouthshire family, being a Doctor of Medicine and Roman Catholic who, in 1836, settled in practice in Upper Brook Street. He with two brothers were sent to Oscott, another brother became well known as a barrister, an active Governor of St George's Hos

Was Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, and practised in Old Broad Street, EC, where he died on April 22nd, 1846. Publications:- In the *Lancet*, 1846, I, 276, Eccles reported a case of ovarian dropsy treated according to the method of Isaac B Brown (qv), Consulting Accoucheur to the Paddington Lyi

Practised as a Surgeon at 21 Montague Place, Russell Square, London, WC. He retired to Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, and died on or before June 9th, 1870.

Was born at Leeds about 1792, the son of a solicitor. His parents died when he was young and he was brought up by the kindness of a sister. He was apprenticed at first to Mr Braithwaite, a Quaker surgeon, who was the proprietor of the preparation of opium known as 'the Black Drop' (*see* LAWRENCE, S

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and practised at 11 King Street, Gloucester, where he was Surgeon to the Gloucester Infirmary, and died there on May 23rd, 1867.

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

Born at Cropredy, Oxfordshire, the third son of Egerton Stafford, Rector of Chacombe and of Thenford in Northamptonshire, and through his mother was of kin to William of Wykeham. He was educated privately at Tamworth and apprenticed to two noted practitioners of Cirencester, William Lawrence, father