Walter Ramsay Allan, known as ‘Peter’, was a consultant surgeon at Bolton Royal Infirmary. Born on 26 October 1927, he was the second of four sons of Walter Ramsay Allan, a general practitioner based in Edinburgh who had fought in the first world war before completing his medical studies at Glasgow

Son of James Ackworth Angus, a well-known medical man of Newcastle. Educated at Newcastle Royal Grammar School and Durham University College of Medicine, then situated in Orchard Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His early appointments were: Resident Medical Officer to the Newcastle Dispensary, Resident

Studied at St Thomas’s and Guy’s Hospitals, and after qualifying practised in Cambridge. He opened a discussion in 1860, at the Cambridge Branch of the British Medical Association, upon the treatment of acute inflammatory diseases. Antiphlogistic measures were considered undesirable; some would use

At one time he was Physician to the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, and at the time of his death (1), which occurred before 1860, was Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets. He was residing at Hills Court, Exeter, when he died. Publication: *The Influence of Climate and Other Agents on the Human Constit

After being educated at Belfast and at Edinburgh University, he settled in practice in Liverpool, first in Abercromby Square, and then at 1 Rose Vale, Great Homer Street. He died on March 10th, 1866.

Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and settled in practice at Shrewsbury, where he died in November, 1866. He was Surgeon to the Great Western Railway, to the Provident Institution, and to the Shrewsbury Penitentiary. At the time of his death he was Surgeon Extraordinary to the Salop Infirmary.

Apprenticed first to Robert Blake, Surgeon to the Royal Navy, he finished his training at the London Hospital under Sir William Blizard, R C Headington, and J Goldwyer Andrews (qv). Settled in practice at 164 High Street, Shadwell, London, removing later to 404 Commercial Road, London. He held the a

Educated at Guy’s Hospital, and then became Surgeon to the Western General Dispensary. Appointed Medical Officer of Health to the united districts of Grantham, Newark, Sleaford, and Ruskington, and afterwards to Caversham, and to the Rural Districts of the Grantham, Newark, and Sleaford Unions. He c

Educated at Owens College, Manchester, and at the London Hospital, where he was Scholar in Anatomy and Physiology (1883-1884), and in Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry (1884-1885). He was also Surgical Scholar, and obtained an Honours Certificate in Obstetrics in 1886-1887. After qualification he w

Educated at University College, London, in Edinburgh, and in Paris. Practised in London from 1840 to 1874, but owing to illness, from which he died on Aug 23rd, 1874, at 28 Ladbroke Square, was unable to provide for a family of ten children. A subscription in aid of his widow and family was promoted

The son of William Pettigrew, whose ancestor, the Gowan Priest ‘Clerk Pettigrew’, is mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in *Rob Roy*. The father was a Naval Surgeon who served in the *Victory* before the time of Nelson. Thomas was born in Fleet Street, London, on Oct 28th, 1791, and was educated at a pri

Graham Farrington was a consultant general surgeon to Kingston Hospital, Surrey, from 1971 until his retirement at the age of 60 in 1994. He was born in Whetstone, London, on 31 October 1934 into a non-medical family. His father, Percy Morgan Sibley Farrington, owned a garage and his mother, Iris Li