Born on Aug. 6th, 1809, at Bread Street Hill, the son of a City merchant, his mother being a daughter of Alderman Hamerton. He was educated at Mr Butter's school in Cheyne Walk and at Westminster Hospital, where his ability soon attracted the attention of G. J. Guthrie and Anthony White. He acted as

Educated at St Thomas's Hospital where he was elected Assistant Surgeon on January 1st 1847, retiring without becoming surgeon on December 17th 1851. He was also for many years Consulting Surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. His private practice as an ophthalmic surgeon was very large an

Born at Victoria, Vancouver Island, the son of Charles Dodd, of the Hudson Bay Company. At the age of 3 years he was brought to Norwich in England, where he was educated under the Rev Augustus Jessop, DD, at the Norwich Grammar School. He received his professional training at first under Dr Gibson o

Came of a Yorkshire family collateral with that of the poet, and born at Manchester, where his father, the Rev William Wordsworth, was curate. He was apprenticed in 1840 to John Jesse, a well-known Manchester practitioner, from whom he derived all the advantages of a well-ordered apprenticeship. He

Born in 1829 or 1830; studied at St George's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, and afterwards acted as Resident Attendant to a nobleman who left him a handsome sum of money in recognition of his services. This led him to become FRCS, and he succeeded in being elected Assistant Surgeon to St Geor

The youngest child of James Wardrop (1738-1830) by his wife Marjory, daughter of Andrew Marjoribanks of Marjoribanks. He was born on August 14th, 1782, at Torbane Hall, a small property owned by his forefathers for many generations. It adjoined the parish celebrated as the birthplace of the Hunters

Born at Kingsbridge, South Devon, on April 28th, 1813. He was educated at a private school at Tavistock and at Crediton Grammar School. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1838, being a fellow-student of Sir James Paget (qv). After further study in Paris, he settled at Plymouth in partnership wi

Born in New Jersey, USA, and educated at Queen's College, Belfast, at Liverpool, and at King's College Hospital. After acting as House Surgeon at the Royal Southern Hospital under Sir Robert Jones, and at the Manchester Ship Canal Hospital, he was for ten years Medical Officer to the Buenos Ayres Po

Born at Brighton, and received his education at New College School, Oxford. He was then apprenticed to James Fernandez Clarke, the well-known medical biographer attached to the staff of the *Lancet*, and afterwards completed his professional training at Charing Cross Hospital, where, among other pri

Born in India, the second son of Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, Bart, GCB, GCSI, who in turn was the youngest son of David Pollock, of Charing Cross, saddler to George III, and had married in 1810 his first wife, Frances Webbe, daughter of T Barclay, Sheriff of Tain. George David Pollock's two un

Born in New Zealand, a brother of the Hon Robert McNab, at one time Minister of Agriculture. He graduated BA and BSc at Otago, then entered Edinburgh University, where he became distinguished as a Rugby football player, being in the first reserve for Scotland, and President of the Athletic Club. He

Was at one time Assistant Surgeon to the Marylebone Infirmary, and at the time of his death was Surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital and the Royal Humane Society. He was a member of the Harveian Society, of which he was President in 1851, and a member of the Pathological Society. He died at hi