Joined the Army as Supernumerary Assistant Surgeon on April 25th, 1803, and on Jan 1st, 1804, became Assistant Surgeon in the Ordnance Medical Department (Medical Establishment for the Military Department of the Ordnance). On Nov 11th, 1811, he was gazetted full Surgeon in the same Department, and r

Born at Manchester, the son of the Rev James Chalmers, MA. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, then at the Liverpool and University of London Colleges and Hospitals. After obtaining various exhibitions and medals in the earlier subjects, he gained honours in medicine and surgery at the

Was Hospital Mate (an abbreviation of Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment) for two periods from November 27th, 1809, to May 24th, 1810, and again from March 28th, 1814, to July 7th, 1819. He served in the United States in 1814. On July 8th, 1819, he became Hospital Assis

Born at Bow, the son of the Rev Charles Champneys, Rector of St Botolph's in the City of London, and Minor Canon of Windsor. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, and first practised at Slough, where he was Surgeon to the Police, and to the Great Western Railway whilst the branch to Windsor was under c

Studied medicine at King's College and Middlesex Hospitals, and began practice in Old Broad Street, City of London, from 1835. He was led to the study of bodily deformities by acting as Surgeon to the Society for Diseases of the Spine and Hip, and as Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospit

Born at Ampthill, the eldest son of Thomas Chapman, surgeon, who lived to be 94, and nephew of Sir John Chapman, FRCS (qv), of Windsor. He was a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital under Abernethy from 1825-1827, and spent the winter session of 1828-9 in Paris. In 1830 he was House Surgeon to Earle

The eldest of the six sons and two daughters born to Commander Robert John Fayrer, RN, and Agnes, his wife. One of his brothers was Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart (qv). George Fayrer was educated at Guy's Hospital, and practised for a short time at Barking in Essex. He moved to Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshir

Born at Hyde, near Manchester, and was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and at Owens College. He was not intended originally for medicine and did not begin his medical studies until 1876. He did brilliantly at Owens College, and at the University of London he gained honours in physiology an

Born at Liverpool on April 7th, 1858, the son of William Collingwood, well known as a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours. Educated at Liverpool College, he matriculated at the University of London in the winter of 1875-6. He began to study for his profession in the School of Med

Received his medical education at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and practised at Maryport, Cumberland, where he died on February 11th, 1875. He was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London.

Educated at the Middlesex and St George's Hospitals. He joined the Bengal Army as Temporary Assistant Surgeon on July 14th, 1841, and served in the China War as Medical Officer to the transport Sylvia. He was afterwards District Surgeon to the East Indian Railway at Jumalpore, Bengal. He died at Woo

Roger Harman Weeks was born in Worcester on 24 April 1934. He married Hilary on 27 February 1960 in Falmouth and they had two children, Sara (born 1961, who also became medically qualified) and Robert (born 1966). He practised as a general surgeon in New Zealand and died there, while living in the B