William Jones Owen was a consultant surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals and a senior lecturer at King’s College, London. He spent his early life in north Wales, where he excelled at his academic work, rugby, music and Welsh. He won first prize in a recital group at the Urdd National Eisteddfo

William Douglas Park was a consultant general surgeon at Oldchurch Hospital and King George V Hospital, Ilford. He was born in Melbourne on 15 November 1912, the son of Charles Leslie Park, a doctor, and Lilian née Davis, the daughter of a timber merchant. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School

Arnold Eley qualified at Charing Cross and after junior posts did his National Service in the RAMC as a junior surgical specialist. On leaving the Army he was registrar at the Connaught Hospital under J Thompson Fathi and surgical first assistant at St George's before being appointed to the Surrey H

Born Oct 17th, 1819, and entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on January 12th, 1845, being promoted Surgeon June 16th, 1858, Surgeon Major on January 12th, 1865. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, May 10th, 1871, retiring December 6th, 1876. He saw active service in the Indian Mutiny (18

Educated at Guy’s Hospital, where after qualification he held the posts of House Surgeon, Surgical Registrar, and Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy. He won University distinction, being University Medical Scholar and Medallist in Surgery in 1861. For three years, 1866-1869, he was Surgeon to the Metrop

Educated at St George's Hospital, where he was entered as a six-months pupil to Everard Home in October, 1805. He practised at York, and died in or before 1861.

Born in Manchester, March 5th, 1783, the son of Jeremiah Ainsworth, an accomplished scholar and well-known mathematician, who may be regarded as founder of a Lancashire school of mathematicians, and to whom many references will be found in *Notes and Queries*, 1853, viii, 541. The family of Ainswort

Practised in Paris. He died on or before May 7th, 1852.

One of the first surgeons appointed to the Sussex County Hospital at Brighton, his colleagues being Robert Taylor (q.v.) and John Lawrence (q.v.). He was Surgeon to the Royal Family, and received £300 a year for attending the household at the Pavilion. He vaccinated King Edward VII and the Princess

Was born of yeoman stock at Aynho, Oxfordshire, and was educated at the local grammar school under Mr Leonard, known for his scholarship and his addiction to green tea. He was apprenticed to a surgeon at Woodstock, and afterwards became a pupil of John Abernethy at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where h

Born at Tyninghame, East Lothian; attended the Edinburgh High School, and in 1857 entered the University while Syme was Professor of Surgery - with Lister assisting and commencing his original work. A cousin being in practice in Cheshire may have led Hardie in 1863 to settle in practice at Harpurhey

Practised at Derby and was Surgeon to the Infirmary. He died in 1870 or 1871. His portrait is in the Fellows’ Album.