Received his professional training at St George’s Hospital. He practised at Salisbury, where he was Surgeon to the Infirmary from 1804-1847. He died at Salisbury on April 6th, 1848. Another Henry Coates seems to have been entered as six-months’ pupil to Benjamin Brodie at St George’s in August, 18

Born on July 18th, 1776, the eldest son of the Rev Robert Pitcairn, of Brasenose College, Oxford, Vicar of English Combe, Somerset, and Incumbent of Spring Chapel, London. The family originated in Pitcairn, Fifeshire, and to it belonged the two well-known physicians – William Pitcairn, MD (1711-1791

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

Born at Coventry on March 29th, 1780; was educated at King Edward’s Grammar School. He was then apprenticed to George Freer, of Birmingham, the author of *Aneurysm and some Diseases of the Arterial System* (1807), who evidently inspired his pupils with higher aims that the mere routine of practice,

Born on Sept 9th, 1780, at Kessingland, a village on the Suffolk coast, where his father occupied a large farm. His mother, who was a daughter of the Rev J Henchman, died while he was an infant, and he was placed in charge of his uncle by marriage, the Rev W Clubbe, Vicar of Brandeston. Mr Clubbe, a

Practised at Windsor in partnership with Mr Turrill; attended the Court professionally, became Mayor of Windsor, and was knighted on Nov 12th or 18th, 1823. He retired to Chertsey, where he died in 1849. Publication:- “A Singular Case of Expulsion of a Blighted Fœtus and Placenta at Seven Month

Studied under Percivall Pott at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and Pott was one of his eight examiners for Membership of the Corporation. He practised in Lamb's Conduit Street, and was President of the National Institute of Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery. For the last two years he practised in Portman

Born in 1767, and thus the earliest born among the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. The “Examination Book” of Sept 2nd, 1790, has entries that “Diplomas were granted to John Curtis, Richard H H Steel of Marlowe, William Hodgson and Richard Harrison”. The examiners were Messrs Hawkins, Lucas

Educated at St George's Hospital, where he was entered as a six-months pupil to Everard Home in October, 1805. He practised at York, and died in or before 1861.

Born in Manchester, March 5th, 1783, the son of Jeremiah Ainsworth, an accomplished scholar and well-known mathematician, who may be regarded as founder of a Lancashire school of mathematicians, and to whom many references will be found in *Notes and Queries*, 1853, viii, 541. The family of Ainswort

Practised in Paris. He died on or before May 7th, 1852.

One of the first surgeons appointed to the Sussex County Hospital at Brighton, his colleagues being Robert Taylor (q.v.) and John Lawrence (q.v.). He was Surgeon to the Royal Family, and received £300 a year for attending the household at the Pavilion. He vaccinated King Edward VII and the Princess