Born at Crickhowell, Brecon, the eldest of ten children; his father emigrated to Canada after practising for many years in Breconshire. The family of Bird had belonged to Herefordshire from Norman times, and the Gwynnes were an old Welsh family belonging to Cwnhordy. G G Bird was apprenticed to his

Born at Lynn. He was articled, it is believed, to Mr Morris, surgeon, of Gosberton, Lincolnshire, and after qualifying returned to his native town, where he was elected House Surgeon to the Lynn Dispensary, continuing in this office till the institution was dissolved. He then became partner with Tho

Went out to Australia and practised for thirty-three years in Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, being at one time a member of the Victorian Central Board of Health. He died at 172 Victoria Street, Richmond, on June 30th, 1895.

Educated at Guy's Hospital. He began to practise in Scarborough in 1840, shortly afterwards going into partnership with Thomas Weddell, who died in 1862. He practised for more than forty years in Scarborough, and was a prominent public man. At one period he was Physician to the Royal Scarborough Sea

Born on November 11th, 1837, at Brighouse, Yorkshire, the second surviving child of Thomas Jessop, a solicitor, by his wife, who was a Miss Haley. He was educated at the Giggleswick Grammar School under Dr Butterton and John Howson, father of John Saul Howson, Dean of Chester, and was apprenticed fo

The son of Edward Jobson, of Elswick, was apprenticed to his uncle, Dr Frost, of Newcastle, and next served as apprentice assistant to Dr Leighton, of Newcastle, whose pupil at that time was Dennis Embleton. He then studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and having qualified distinguished himse

Born at Lancaster of a medical family settled there for a hundred years. His grandfather and father both practised in the town. His father, Christopher Johnson, senr, was an Edinburgh graduate, and for more than half a century a leading practitioner who cultivated both literature and science. His el

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and then practised at 71 St Giles' Street, Norwich. He was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1830, full Surgeon in 1839, and resigned his office in September, 1847. In 1855 he was elected Mayor of Norwich. He died at Norwich on Janu

Educated at University College and Hospital. He practised first at Bideford, where he was Magistrate and JP for the Borough. He lived latterly at Berkeley Villa, Cheltenham, and died there in 1870.

Apprenticed to Messrs Lodge and Walton, of Preston, and began to practise at Clitheroe. In 1873 he moved to Lytham, where, attending only personal friends, he acted as JP for the County of Lancaster and was one of the Local Improvement Commissioners at Lytham until the change in the constitution of

Born at Ballymoney in 1818, and began to practise at Belfast in 1840. In 1864 he was appointed Medical Officer to the Belfast Constabulary, JP for Belfast and for Co Antrim, Surgeon to the Mater Infirmorum Hospital and to the General Dispensary. He also acted as President of the Ulster Medical Socie

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised for some twenty years at Chesterfield, where he was Surgeon to the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Hospital and Dispensary, District Medical Officer to the Union and Surgeon to the Workhouse, and Assistant Surgeon to the Chatsworth Rifles (2nd De