Son of James William Braine (qv), a medical man in large practice; born at St James’s Square, London, on December 28th, 1837, the eldest of eleven children. He entered St George’s Hospital in 1854, and was successively House Surgeon, Surgical Registrar, and Demonstrator of Anatomy. He acted as priv

Practised as a Surgeon at 5 Cleveland Row, St James’s, and was at one time Surgeon to the St James’s Infirmary, and later to the Burlington School. He was a Member of the Westminster Medical Society. Between 1858 and 1863 he moved to 44 Hertford Street, Mayfair, which was afterwards the address of h

Studied at the Middlesex Hospital and at the London School of Dental Surgery, where he was a Prizeman. Having qualified he was first appointed Dental Surgeon to the St Marylebone General Dispensary, next Medical Tutor to the Royal Dental Hospital, then Surgeon and Lecturer on Dental Surgery. In 1881

The son of William Bennett, born at Coventry, where his father had built the Royal Opera House. He studied at Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, and became Resident Surgical Officer at the General and at the Jaffray Hospitals. He gained further experience at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and in Paris before

Came of a family of Lutheran Pastors, of long standing in East Prussia and Livonia, his father being Pastor of Rujen in Livonia; but his mother, having to take refuge from an epidemic, he was born at Riga, then the capital of the Russian Baltic Provinces, in December, 1836. On leaving school he fai

Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and in Vienna. After qualifying he became House Surgeon at the Royal Cornwall Infirmary, and practised for some years at 20 Union Road, Tufnell Park, N. He was at one time Assistant Aural Surgeon to the Dispensary and Senior Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at

Born at St Albans, the son of William Bassett-Smith, and educated at St John’s College, Hurstpierpoint. He then entered the Middlesex Hospital, and after acting as House Physician passed into the Navy in 1883. He was promoted to Staff Surgeon in 1895; Fleet Surgeon in 1899, Surgeon Captain in 1917,

Born at Burton-on-Trent, and after education at the Grammar School was apprenticed for five years to Septimus Allen. Entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital in October, 1825, dissected, with Richard Owen, a fellow-student, and attended the lectures of John Abernethy. He was appointed Librarian of the Medi

Born in Manchester, where his father owned print works. He was apprenticed to Walter Dunlop, of Rochdale, and after graduating in Edinburgh settled in practice in Ardwick by the advice of Sir James Lomax Bardsley, Consulting Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, who had been struck by his pap

The son of a Wesleyan Minister, entered Charing Cross Hospital as the Livingstone Scholar in 1892, and distinguished himself as a student by gaining several prizes, also the Llewllyn Scholarship in 1896. He afterwards acted as House Surgeon and as House Physician. Whilst in the latter post he observ

Received his professional training at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals. He practised at Coleford, Gloucestershire, and died there in 1885.

Born at Enniskillen on May 26th, 1819. Joined the Army as Assistant Surgeon to the 54th Foot on July 11th, 1845, promoted Staff Surgeon (2nd class) August 15th, 1854, transferred to the 6th Dragoons on March 16th, 1855 and to the 12th Dragoons, January 14th, 1860. He was promoted Surgeon Major of th