The second son of John Syme, of Cartmore and Lochore in the Kingdom of Fife, was born at 56 Princes Street, Edinburgh, on November 7th, 1799, his father being a Writer to the Signet. He received most of his early education at the Edinburgh High School and spent much of his spare time working with Ro

Born at Cropredy, Oxfordshire, the third son of Egerton Stafford, Rector of Chacombe and of Thenford in Northamptonshire, and through his mother was of kin to William of Wykeham. He was educated privately at Tamworth and apprenticed to two noted practitioners of Cirencester, William Lawrence, father

There were four Teales, surgeons, connected with Leeds - Thomas Pridgin Teale, senr, his father, and his two sons, Thomas Pridgin Teale, junr (qv), and John William Teale (qv). Thomas Pridgin Teale, senr, was born on January 1st, 1801, in Leeds, where his father had a large practice, and was educat

Born on September 29th, 1772. He joined the Army as Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment, on May 20th, 1793. On December 10th, 1794, he was gazetted Surgeon to the 30th Foot, promoted to the Staff on April 4th, 1800, and on March 25th, 1809, became Deputy Inspector of Hos

Practised as a Surgeon at 21 Montague Place, Russell Square, London, WC. He retired to Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, and died on or before June 9th, 1870.

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and later held various posts - Surgeon to the Foundling Hospital and to St Marylebone Infirmary; Secretary to the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society; and Medical Inspector of Prisons. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He lived at 12 Westbourne Str

One of the three sons of John Taunton (1769-1821), anatomist and surgeon, of Hatton Garden, who founded, and was first Surgeon of, the City of London Truss Society. An account of him is in the *Dictionary of National Biography*. John Colley Taunton succeeded his father as Surgeon to the Truss Societ

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, was a pupil of Abernethy, and won distinction for the ease and rapidity with which he passed his examinations. William Lawrence was one of his contemporaries. Before he was twenty he became assistant to William Newnham, of Farnham in Surrey, who was famous as a

The third son of Louis Thomas, a merchant whose place of business in George Street, Sheffield, was on the site now occupied by the Sheffield Banking Company. He was educated at a private school in Wakefield and was apprenticed to his brother-in-law, Thomas Waterhouse. He then studied in London and P

Studied medicine at the Bristol Infirmary under Henry Daniel, and matriculated at the London University, being one of the earliest students on the University roll. He gained the Gold Medal for Surgery and the Silver Medal for Anatomy and Physiology. In 1829 he went to Paris, and returned upon the ou

Came of a family long settled in Durham and was born at Norton in that county. Educated at Witton-le-Wear, he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as a pensioner in on May 18th, 1799, and graduated MB in 1804. He was apprenticed to Sir Anthony Carlisle, Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, where he

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