Born near Taunton, his father, a farmer on a large scale, being descended from an old Somerset family. He entered University College, London, as a medical student in 1840 and carried off many prizes. He was a favourite pupil of Liston, and acted as House Surgeon. After studying in Paris he settled i

Born on December 28th, 1817, and at the time of his death was the eldest surviving son of William FitzPatrick, of Castle Dunow, Queen's County. He passed the preliminary examination of the Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland when he was 15 years old, and was then apprenticed to Mr Fraser, a well-known gen

The only son of James Mathias Phillips, MD, and of Mary Anne Powell, his wife; born at Tir Caradoc Taibach, Glamorganshire, on July 28th, 1871. He was educated at Epsom College and was admitted a pensioner at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on October 1st, 1889. Here he was a scholar from mid

Born in Barbadoes on October 10th, 1858, the son of Henry Pilgrim, a planter. He is said to have been educated at Cheltenham, Boyce's House, but his name does not appear in the College Register. He then went to University College and St Bartholomew's Hospitals, as well as to Edinburgh University, an

Born on board the flagship of Admiral Hayes, off the island of Java, the eldest son of Colonel Charles Thomas Higgins of the HEIC, then on shore at the time, leading his regiment in the storming of Batavia when it was taken from the French. Hence his second name Hayes. After a succession of schools

Born at Portsmouth on July 16th, 1817, the son of C W Hoffmeister, Collector of Customs at Belfast. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and at University College Hospital, London, where he was Clinical Clerk to Dr Elliotson and Dresser to Robert Liston. He settled in practice at Cowes in 18

Born 7 April 1866, the son of John Hayward, MRCS 1845, of Rushall, Wilts, who died on 19 November 1869, aged 45. His mother, *née* Fuller, was the daughter of the Steward of St Bartholomew's Hospital and died not long after her husband. He was educated at Marlborough College and St Bartholomew's Hos

Educated at St Paul's School, Stony Stratford, and at Hertford Grammar School. He received his professional training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he acted as Registrar in the Ophthalmic Department. From 1873-1878 he was Hon Medical Officer and House Surgeon to the Hertford Hospital. He was in

Born at Tiverton on December 14th, 1819, the sixth son of Captain Henry Waring, RN, of the city of Hereford. The family was peculiarly gifted, several of the brothers being well known in the world of letters. The second son, George, a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Wadham and Magdalen Ha

The youngest son of George Willis, of Florence Court, Co Fermanagh; distinguished himself as a student at Middlesex Hospital, and after acting there as House Physician, went out to Japan with Colonel St John Neil's Mission. Willis became well known to Sir Henry S Parkes, KCB, throughout some sixteen

Educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was Obstetric Resident. He started practice at Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, and was Physician to the Pembroke and Haverfordwest Infirmary, and then at Tenby. In 1870 he moved to London, practised at 67 High Street, Wandsworth, in partnership with Alfred Bro

Born in Sydney and was educated at three local schools. He came to Europe to finish his general education, and was enrolled as a student of medicine at University College, London, where he obtained medals for proficiency in anatomy and in medicine, and won the Fellowes Gold Medal as the most profici