Son of William a’Beckett, attorney, by his wife Sarah Abbot, a strenuous supporter of municipal reform. He came of a Wiltshire family which claimed direct descent from the father of St Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. His elder brothers were Sir William a’Beckett (1806-1869), Chief Justice

Practised at Bridgnorth, Shropshire, where he was Surgeon to the Bridgnorth and South Shropshire Infirmary, and was a member of the London Pathological Society. He died in 1868.

Born of a family of medical practitioners in South Staffordshire during the previous century and a half. He succeeded his father and practised at Tipton Heath, where he was for many years Chairman of the Local Board of Health, one of the founders of the Guest Hospital, and for a long period Surgeon

Was Surgeon to the Bristol General Hospital until his death at 24 Park Street, Bristol, on September 27th, 1861. He had been at one time a Vice-President of the Paris Medical Society.

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to the Sussex County Hospital and to the Deaf and Dumb Institute, and Consulting Surgeon to the Brighton and Sussex Eye Infirmary. He practised at 24 Cannon Place, Brighton, in partnership with G E Pocock, and died on Oct

Resided at Shrewsbury, and died there in 1874.

Educated at Manchester and University College Hospitals; practised at 14 Finsbury Place, London, where he was a member of the Court of Common Council. Later he moved to 12A Charterhouse Square, and was Medical Officer to Merchant Taylors' School, to the Great Western Bristol and Exeter Railways' Pro

Studied at St Thomas's Hospital, and practised, first at 115 Holborn Hill, then at 10 Russell Square, London. He was for fifty years Surgeon to Newgate Prison, also for a time Medical Officer to the Western City Dispensary, to the Holborn Union, and to the West Central District Post Office. After hi

Practised at Gwennap, near Redruth, Cornwall. He was a Member of the British Medical Association, and JP for the County. He died in retirement on April 17th, 1891.

Practised at St John Street, Great Broughton, Chester, and was Surgeon to the General Infirmary in succession to George Harrison, senr (? His father) (qv), whom he predeceased on or before October 26th, 1849.

Studied at the Middlesex and St George's Hospitals, and practised at 65 Grosvenor Street, London, W, where he died on April 12th, 1866.

Studied at St Thomas’s and Guy’s Hospitals, and after qualifying practised in Cambridge. He opened a discussion in 1860, at the Cambridge Branch of the British Medical Association, upon the treatment of acute inflammatory diseases. Antiphlogistic measures were considered undesirable; some would use