Born at Salisbury, the son of Captain Thomas Tatum, of the South Wales Militia, grandson of John Tatum, first Physician to the Salisbury Infirmary, and great-grandson of Thomas Tatum, MD, of Salisbury, who died at Mere in Wiltshire. George Roberts Tatum's brother was Thomas Tatum (qv), Surgeon to St

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

Practised at St. Andrew's, Norwich. He was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1828, when there were three candidates and 429 Governors attended to vote. Two years later he became Surgeon on the death of Henry Carter, and resigned in 1857, when he was elected Consulting

The eldest son of Benjamin Travers (q.v.), Surgeon to St Thomas’s Hospital. His mother, Sarah, daughter of William Morgan (1750-1833), who took high rank among the pioneers of life assurance in England and was Actuary of the Equitable Society, was the sister of John Morgan (q.v.), Surgeon to Guy's H

Born on Nov 29th, 1779, the younger son of John Seager, of Shirehampton, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Warminster Grammar School, but it is not known where he received his professional training. He practised for many years at Cheltenham before, and probably after, 1810; he appears also to have

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

Educated at St George’s Hospital, where he was a pupil of Sir Everard Home. He entered the Madras Army in 1802, was promoted to Surgeon in the 16th Regiment in 1824, and retired with the rank of Superintending Surgeon in 1828. Later he practised at 3 Cambridge Terrace, Regent’s Park, and died on Jan

Came of Huguenot stock, an ancestor having taken refuge in England after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Both his father and grandfather were members of the medical profession and practised in John Street, Golden Square, London. Educated at St George’s Hospital, he was a fellow-pupil with S

The son of a Suffolk yeoman, born near Stowmarket, in which town he was apprenticed at an early age to Mr Bailey, the surgeon-apothecary, whose daughter he married in 1815. After his apprenticeship he studied at St George's Hospital and at the Windmill Street School of Anatomy, where he soon gained

Born on September 26th, 1812, the eldest of the seven children of John Gay, currier, of Wellington, Somerset, by his wife Mary Timewell, whom he had married on Nov 25th, 1811. John Gay was apprenticed to Stephen Franklin Bridge (qv), a general practitioner in Wellington, whom he afterwards proposed

Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where his father was a medical practitioner. He served for a few months at Woolwich as an Army Assistant Surgeon, but joined his father at Newcastle in 1815. He soon gained a reputation as a surgeon and was renowned for the long distances he would ride to visit his patie