The fifth son of John Eddison, of Gateford, Notts, who died in 1812. His father belonged to the Society of Friends. His mother, niece of Abraham Booth, Baptist minister, was left a widow with eight children under eleven years of age, but with remarkable energy she fitted them all to fill responsible

Born at Salisbury, the son of Captain Thomas Tatum, of the South Wales Militia, grandson of John Tatum, first Physician to the Salisbury Infirmary, and great-grandson of Thomas Tatum, MD, of Salisbury, who died at Mere in Wiltshire. George Roberts Tatum's brother was Thomas Tatum (qv), Surgeon to St

The son of the Rev John Pye Smith, DD, FRS, a well-known Sheffield Nonconformist minister and geologist; the son inherited his father's industry, love of knowledge, and religious principles. Pye Smith went to Mill Hill School and was then articled to Ashwell, a City practitioner; he next studied

The son of William Parker, Medical Officer of Health for the Aston Union, who practised in Aston Road, Birmingham, where he was born. He was educated at Heathfield Road School, Handsworth, under the Rev Daniel Walton, and afterwards attended the medical and surgical practice of the Birmingham Genera

Born on May 18th, 1808, the son of J Bulley, who came of an old Berkshire family long connected with Reading. His mother was a Blagrave, another ancient Reading family, which produced a regicide, distinguished mathematicians, and for three centuries the Reading Members of Parliament. Bulley's father

Born on September 30th, 1805, the eldest son and second child of Jonathan William Crompton, a merchant living in Edgbaston, by his wife Martha Webster, of Penns. He was sent at an early age as a pupil to G E Male, Physician to the General Hospital at Birmingham from 1805-1816. He was afterwards appr