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

Born at Exeter, the ninth child of Ralph Barnes, Residentary Canon of Exeter from 1769, Archdeacon of Totnes, and Chancellor of the Cathedral. This Ralph Barnes (1731-1820) went to Christ Church as head boy from Westminster School. It is on record that "he was severely punished by the Dean and Chapt

Anthony Wynn Michael Carton Owen was a consultant surgeon at Wharfedale General Hospital, Otley. He was born on 8 April 1943 in Pinner, Middlesex, the first of seven children born to Annie and William Owen. His parents met and married in London. His mother, then Annie Daly, a Westmeath lady from Gar

Born on Sept. 11th, 1781, the second of the sons of a merchant who had made a fortune in the West Indies. He was educated at Greenwich at the school kept by the Rev. Charles Burney, D.D., son of the historian of music, whose library was bought by the nation to be preserved in the British Museum as t

Born at Ely in Cambridgeshire on Sept. 11th, 1818, the second son of William Marshall, solicitor, an excellent naturalist. John Marshall's elder brother, William (d. 1890), sometime Coroner for Ely, was an enthusiastic botanist, who first elucidated the life-history of the American pond-weed, *Anach

Born at Pulborough, Sussex, on Nov 3rd, 1779, the eldest child of Peter Patrick Martin, who had migrated from Edinburgh whilst the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 was still fresh in the popular recollection and settled in Pulborough as a general practitioner. A clever and well-informed man, he advocated

Born at Chesterfield, the son of Peter Redfern, distinguished for scientific attainments; he was educated privately in classics, and then apprenticed for five years to Richard Collis Botham, who was Surgeon to the Chesterfield Union and Workhouse. Redfern and another apprentice, C E Black, who after

The second son of George Toynbee, a large tenant farmer and landowner in Lincolnshire, was born at Heckington in that county on December 30th, 1815. He was educated at King's Lynn Grammar School, and was apprenticed at the age of 17 to William Wade, of the Westminster General Dispensary in Gerrard S

The only son and second child of James Scott (1770-1849) by his wife Mary; born at Bromley in Kent, according to the inscription on his funeral tablet, on February 20th, 1799. His father, a general practitioner of Clay Hill, Beckenham, Kent, was in good social standing and of high professional reput

Henry Tonks was born at Solihull, Warwickshire, on 9 April 1862, second son and fifth of the eleven children of Edmund Tonks, sometime barrister of Gray's Inn, of Packwood Grange, Knowle, Warwickshire, and Julia Anne Johnson, his wife. Edmund Tonks left the bar on his marriage and joined his father'

Leon Gillis was born 4 September 1908, and had his schooling and undergraduate medical education in South Africa, obtaining the degrees of bachelor of medicine and of surgery at Witwatersrand University in 1935. He then came to England for postgraduate education and after study at Liverpool, in 1937

Began to practise in the Mile End Road, E, and later in Old Bow Lane. After becoming FRCS he went out to Australia and practised first at Hobart Town, and then at Sandhurst, Victoria. After 1860 he returned to England and practised successively at Grove Street, South Hackney, NE, and 84 Holland Road