Came of a family long settled in Durham and was born at Norton in that county. Educated at Witton-le-Wear, he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as a pensioner in on May 18th, 1799, and graduated MB in 1804. He was apprenticed to Sir Anthony Carlisle, Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, where he

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

The son of a surgeon in good practice in Bath. After a short stay in London he returned to Bath and began professional life as his father’s assistant in the year 1801. On the death of an elder brother, a surgeon, he began to practise on his own account. In 1817 he succeeded his father as surgeon to

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

Practised as a surgeon in Bolsover, then in Bury, and finally in Mosley Street, Manchester, where he was Surgeon to the Union Hospital. He died at his residence at Cheetham Hill on Feb 14th, 1844. He became known as a medical author by winning the Jacksonian Prize in 1812 with his Essay entitled "D

Born at Dorchester on Aug 12th, 1787. He was educated at Lymington, Hants, was then placed under a well-known surgeon at Salisbury, and in 1807 entered St Thomas’s Hospital, where, under the tuition of Sir Astley Cooper and Cline, he soon acquired a superior knowledge of anatomy and surgery. Sir Ast

The son of Benjamin North, of Woodstock, and Mary, daughter of Bartholomew Churchill, of Todmorden. He began his professional career as Assistant Surgeon in the Oxfordshire Militia. This was at the close of the Peninsular War, and when stationed at Bristol he had charge of a large number of recruits

The son of John Thorpe, a distinguished Manchester surgeon. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, became his father’s pupil, and completed his medical education in London. After passing the College, he returned to Manchester in order to begin practice. From 1812-1849 he was Surgeon to th

Was commissioned Assistant Surgeon to the 1st Foot Guards on Dec 25th, 1796. This, says Colonel Johnston in a note, is “the earliest date of a Regimental Assistant Surgeon's commission, though not the first to be gazetted”. The first to be gazetted was Robert Lawson, Assistant Surgeon to the 4th Dra

Born at Ayr on April 1st, 1774, and entered the Army Medical Department as Surgeon's Mate in the 42nd Highlanders in 1792. He was promoted to the Staff in 1793, and made two campaigns in Flanders under the Duke of York. He then proceeded to the West Indies with the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers and did

Lecturer on Surgery at the Liverpool School of Medicine, and Hon Surgeon to the Liverpool Northern Hospital, where at the time of his death on April 2nd, 1863, he was Consulting Surgeon. He was one of the signatories in association with Henry Stubbs (qv) to refute an attack on the Liverpool Northern