The son of a cheesemonger in the Bullstake Haymarket at Sheffield; was apprenticed to William Staniforth, sent, one of the first three Surgeons elected to the Sheffield General Infirmary when it was opened in 1797. Staniforth was not only a surgeon with a local reputation as an oculist, but he was t

Was for many years Surgeon to the Gloucester Infirmary (County Hospital), where until his retirement he took the lead as an operator. He was also at one time Surgeon to the Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry. He was described as a man of excellent heart and generous disposition. His death occurred at

Practised at Stafford, where he was Surgeon to the County Infirmary and Prison. He moved later to Barnstaple, where he died on November 22nd, 1880.

Practised at 26 Watling Street, Canterbury, where he was Surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, and to the St Augustine County Prison. He died on May 3rd, 1861.

Born at Manchester and studied at the Infirmary there. After the death of Joshua Brookes he joined Thomas King in opening the Blenheim Street School of Anatomy, and afterwards became Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology at Westminster Hospital Medical School. He practised in Delahay Street, close to t

Born in Southwark on October 6th, 1793, the eldest son of Thomas Key by his first wife, Margaret Barry. His father was a general practitioner, first in the Borough and afterwards in Fenchurch Street, who took the degree of MD late in life, and carried on a lucrative obstetric practice in Lombard Str

The fourth son of John Webb, of Woodland Hill, Staffordshire, and afterwards of Dublin, by his wife, a daughter of Thomas Heath. He was born in Dublin on October 25th, 1772, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon March 17th, 1794; was promoted Regimental Surgeon on July 15th, 1795; Surgeon to the Force

Was one of the twenty children of Thomas Verney Okes, Surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, a medical author in extensive practice. John Okes's brother, Dr Richard Okes (d1888), was Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and editor of *Musae Etonienses* (new series 1796-1833). John Okes was

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital at a time when Sir James Earle, John Abernethy, and John Painter Vincent were its leading surgeons. He was a favourite with Abernethy, who reposed great trust in him, and whose house at 14 Bedford Row he afterwards occupied for over thirty years of a successful

The only son of Thomas Trew. He was Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital, and practised as a surgeon at 19 Woburn Place, Russell Square, WC, and then at Great Marlow, Bucks. His death occurred at his father's residence at St Peter's, Thanet, on February 24th, 1851.

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