Born at Preston, and received his medical education at the Borough School and Guy's Hospital. He settled in general practice in Manchester in 1834, and in 1847, when an alarming and disastrous epidemic of typhus raged there, was the general superintendent of the extensive arrangements made for check

Studied at Middlesex Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, and in Paris. He settled in practice at East Grinstead and became Medical Officer and Physician to the Cottage Hospital, the Hartfield Dispensary, and the East Grinstead Dispensary; also to the Almshouse known as Sackville College, which fig

Educated at St Paul's School, Stony Stratford, and at Hertford Grammar School. He received his professional training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he acted as Registrar in the Ophthalmic Department. From 1873-1878 he was Hon Medical Officer and House Surgeon to the Hertford Hospital. He was in

Born in Norfolk, the son of Henry Carter Wigg, senr; was taken out to Geelong, Australia, in January, 1853. He returned in 1859 to King's Lynn, was a pupil at Mr Lupton's school, and was so interested in chemistry as to perform the illustrative experiments after his master's lecture, becoming so abs

Somewhat above middle height, clean-shaven with prematurely white hair and of ascetic appearance, Cecil Beadles was unmarried and lived for his garden and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was so excessively shy that he was rarely seen even by his colleagues unless they went

Born on 1 August 1851 at Fullarton, South Australia, the third son of James Crabb Verco, who emigrated from Cornwall to Adelaide about 1838. He was educated during 1862-67 at J L Young's Academy then in Stephen's Place and afterwards transferred to Freeman Street. The latter part of his education wa

Born at Liverpool on 5 June 1859, the second son and youngest child of Frederick Worthington, MRCS, LSA, of Abercrombie Street, Liverpool, surgeon to the Liverpool Lock Hospital, and Sophia de la Serre his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and at Guy's Hospital, where he served the office of

Born at Tiverton on December 14th, 1819, the sixth son of Captain Henry Waring, RN, of the city of Hereford. The family was peculiarly gifted, several of the brothers being well known in the world of letters. The second son, George, a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Wadham and Magdalen Ha

Born at Gloucester in 1863, son of William Washbourn, a descendant of Sir Roger Washbourn, of Knight's Washbourn (*temp* 1370), went to King's College, Gloucester, then studied at Guy's Hospital, winning the Entrance Scholarship in 1881 and greatly distinguishing himself as well by taking prizes at

Born at Liverpool on May 6th, 1847, the son and grandson of surgeons. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and at the University of Liverpool, where he was Medallist in Medicine, Surgery, and Pathology, also at Brussels. Becoming FRCS, he settled in practice at Blackburn as assistant to Dr Will

As regional medical officer for Oxford Regional Health Authority Rosemary Rue pioneered part-time specialist medical training for women doctors. She was born in Essex on 14 June 1928, the daughter of Harry and Daisy Laurence. The family moved to London when she was five, and during the Blitz she was

Born in Sydney and was educated at three local schools. He came to Europe to finish his general education, and was enrolled as a student of medicine at University College, London, where he obtained medals for proficiency in anatomy and in medicine, and won the Fellowes Gold Medal as the most profici