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

Came of the same ancient Staffordshire family as William Woollaston, the moral philosopher, author of *Religion of Nature Delineated* (1724). Lord Macaulay was one of his schoolfellows. He was apprenticed to a leading hospital surgeon in London, and received his medical education at the London Hospi

Born on 18 December 1859 at Campton, near Haddington, East Lothian, he was brought up under a strictly religious discipline with his brothers and sisters by his grandmother until her death. He was educated by a typical Scots dominie at the school in Haddington from which he proceeded to Edinburgh Ac

Born on December 28th, 1817, and at the time of his death was the eldest surviving son of William FitzPatrick, of Castle Dunow, Queen's County. He passed the preliminary examination of the Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland when he was 15 years old, and was then apprenticed to Mr Fraser, a well-known gen

Was an articled pupil of James Luke (qv), who in 1853 and again in 1862 was President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Reed studied at the London Hospital, then practised at Hertford and acted as Physician and Surgeon to the Hertfordshire County Infirmary from 1843-1856. Sir Benjamin Brodie and Sir

Graduated at Cambridge from Cavendish College, and acted for a time as a Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy before entering St Thomas's Hospital. He served as House Physician at the Brompton Hospital for Consumption; at the Hospital for Children, Liverpool; and he was also Demonstrator of Anatomy at the

Born on June 19th, 1841, at Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, the son of the Rev Frederick Sims, Rector of West Bergholt, Essex, and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He spent his early life in Suffolk, and was educated at Colchester Grammar School. Shortly before he was 16 he was apprenticed to the then w

The youngest son of George Willis, of Florence Court, Co Fermanagh; distinguished himself as a student at Middlesex Hospital, and after acting there as House Physician, went out to Japan with Colonel St John Neil's Mission. Willis became well known to Sir Henry S Parkes, KCB, throughout some sixteen

Born at Brixton on 13 August 1866, eldest son and second of the seven children of John Bisdee Fawcett, of Lloyd's, and Ellen Hyslop, his wife. His father and mother both died when he was eleven, and the children were brought up by their uncle, Robert Grant, and his wife. He was educated at Dulwich a

Educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was Obstetric Resident. He started practice at Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, and was Physician to the Pembroke and Haverfordwest Infirmary, and then at Tenby. In 1870 he moved to London, practised at 67 High Street, Wandsworth, in partnership with Alfred Bro

Educated at St George's Hospital. He practised at Kennington, first at Harley-ford Place, and then at 302 Kennington Park Road, SE. Up to the time of his death he was Hon Physician to the Royal Female Philanthropic Society. He was a Fellow of the Medical Society of London, of the Linnean and of the

Born at Portsmouth on July 16th, 1817, the son of C W Hoffmeister, Collector of Customs at Belfast. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and at University College Hospital, London, where he was Clinical Clerk to Dr Elliotson and Dresser to Robert Liston. He settled in practice at Cowes in 18