Born at Brighton, and received his education at New College School, Oxford. He was then apprenticed to James Fernandez Clarke, the well-known medical biographer attached to the staff of the *Lancet*, and afterwards completed his professional training at Charing Cross Hospital, where, among other pri

Born on Aug. 6th, 1809, at Bread Street Hill, the son of a City merchant, his mother being a daughter of Alderman Hamerton. He was educated at Mr Butter's school in Cheyne Walk and at Westminster Hospital, where his ability soon attracted the attention of G. J. Guthrie and Anthony White. He acted as

Born at Gawcott, Buckinghamshire, on July 14th, 1855, the second son of the Rev T C Whitehead, Head Master of Christ's College, Finchley. He studied at Charing Cross Hospital, and, becoming FRCS, was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital in 1881. He was also Assistant Surgeon to the

Vincent Nesfield was born in India on 12 October 1879, the son of John Collinson Nesfield, Director of Education in India, and Ellen Blumhardt, a missionary who had been through the siege of Lucknow during the Mutiny. He entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1897 and completed a successful ca

Born in India, the second son of Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, Bart, GCB, GCSI, who in turn was the youngest son of David Pollock, of Charing Cross, saddler to George III, and had married in 1810 his first wife, Frances Webbe, daughter of T Barclay, Sheriff of Tain. George David Pollock's two un

Born in 1866, he was educated at Aberdeen University, the Middlesex and King's College Hospitals. He was a house surgeon at the Gloucestershire General Infirmary and Eye Hospital and then ophthalmic clinical assistant at the Middlesex Hospital. He settled in practice at Lewes, Sussex and was appo

Born in New Jersey, USA, and educated at Queen's College, Belfast, at Liverpool, and at King's College Hospital. After acting as House Surgeon at the Royal Southern Hospital under Sir Robert Jones, and at the Manchester Ship Canal Hospital, he was for ten years Medical Officer to the Buenos Ayres Po

Born at 39 College Green, Bristol, on July 16th, 1818, the second son of James Cowles Prichard, FRS, a physician, famous as the author of *The Natural History of Man*. His mother was the daughter of Dr Estlin, Unitarian Minister and Co-Pastor at Lewin's Mead Chapel, a scholar and friend of Coleridge

The second of the four sons of Sir John Fife (qv), who was the leading operator in the North of England, and a founder of the Newcastle College of Medicine. His mother was a Miss Bainbridge, and his paternal grandfather was a Scottish medical man who settled in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the n

The second son of Philip Chilwell de la Garde (qv) by Susan, second daughter of the Rev John Lempriere, DD (1765?-1824), author of the *Classical Dictionary*, who was Master of the Exeter Free Grammar School from 1809-1823. John L Delagarde was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gave p

The only child of the Rev Philip de la Garde, sometime Rector of St Martin, Jersey, and of Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Chilwell, of Westerham, and Hadlow in Kent. He was born at Chelsea, and there his father died when he was a year old. He was educated at the Exeter Grammar School when John Lemprier

At the age of 17 he obtained a commission in the Militia. He was educated at University College Hospital, where he acted as House Surgeon. He was afterwards Ambulance Surgeon to the Northern Hospital, Liverpool, and Surgeon on the RMS *City of Berlin*. In 1888 he was Resident Medical Officer at Swan