Was articled to John Merriman, of Kensington, studied at Great Windmill Street School, and in 1825 entered St George's Hospital, where in 1838 he was House Surgeon; in 1834 he was Surgeon to the Pimlico Dispensary. He lectured and demonstrated on anatomy at Kinnerton Street, lying to the west of St

Born on Aug 1st, 1778, and entered the service of the HEIC. He was appointed Regimental Mate to the 89th Foot on April 1st, 1797, and a month later, May 1st, became Assistant Surgeon to the same regiment. He was transferred to the 5th Dragoon Guards on Aug 10th, 1799, and was gazetted Surgeon to the

Studied in Dublin and London. He lectured on midwifery and surgery at the Sheffield Medical School, and died in retirement at Sheffield on Sept 28th, 1867. See below for an amended version of the published obituary: William Jackson was a general surgeon in Sheffield, and a co-founder of the Sheffi

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

Born at Upton-on-Severn on Dec. 1st, 1798, the second of the six children of George Skey, a Russian merchant in London. He was educated at one or two private schools in early life, the last being that of the Rev. Michael Maurice, the Unitarian preacher, father of Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872

Born at Penrith, Cumberland, the son of a Birmingham merchant. He was educated at King Edward VI's Grammar School and was apprenticed to George Freer, who was Surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital from December, 1793, to the day of his death in December, 1823. Hodgson thus had much experience a

The tenth child and seventh son of Samuel Partridge, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. He was born on January 19th, 1805, and was apprenticed in 1821 to his uncle, W. H. Partridge, who practised in Birmingham. During his apprenticeship he acted as dresser to Joseph Hodgson (q.v.) at the Birmingham Gene

A pupil of William Cother, a very able surgeon, at the Gloucester Hospital, which, being situated in the midst of an extensive manufacturing district, gave abundant opportunities for practice in the art of operative surgery. The surgeons of that day were not generally operators, and consequently all

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

Born in Ireland on October 2nd, 1800. His father was a Member of the London College of Surgeons, and Francis was the eldest of his four children. His parents came to live in England, and he was sent at an early age to the Roman Catholic College at Ware, Hertfordshire, where he laid the foundations o

Born on Aug 25th, 1777. He was Regimental Mate in the 49th Foot from June 17th, 1796, to Jan 23rd, 1797, and Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment, from Jan 24th to April 5th, 1797. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 13th Regiment of Foot on April 6th, 1797, was tran

Born on May 4th, 1764, at Brook Green, the son of a gentleman of small fortune descended from a Spanish family. As a Roman Catholic he was educated at the Jesuits' College, Douai, being at first intended for the Church. At the age of 18, before the Revolution, he travelled about France on foot, saw