John Collis Carter – John Carter in the *Fellows’ Register* – was one of the earliest members of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Charter of which is dated March 22nd, 1800, as George Gunning Campbell (qv) was one of the last to be admitted a member of the old Corporation of Surgeons. Dates of his

Practised in Sheffield (South), where he was Surgeon to the Public Dispensary. His death was reported to the College in 1850 as having occurred some time before August 26th of that year.

The following obituary was published in Volume 1 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Practised at Margate, where he died on June 7th, 1859. The following obituary was written and submitted in 2019. Joshua Waddington was a surgeon in Margate and a contemporary of the poet John Keats at Guy’s

Was a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, and served on HMS *Wilberforce* in the Niger Expedition of 1841, concerning which he published *Some Account of the African Remittent Fever, which occurred on board HMS Wilberforce in the River Niger* and while engaged on service on the West Coast of Africa. Nearly e

Practised at Banbury, Oxfordshire, and died there on January 29th, 1853.

Studied at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, the École de Médecine, Paris, and King's College, London. In 1835 he became a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, and in 1846 gained the prize which Sir Gilbert Mane had instituted in 1829 for the best journal kept by a naval surgeon. Latterly he was Staff Su

Practised at Rochdale, Lancashire, and died there on October 23rd, 1874.

Practised at Guildford. He was a very senior Member when elected FRCS. He died on November 5th, 1849.

Born in March, 1792, entered the IMS, Madras Army, as Assistant Surgeon on April 13th, 1816, was promoted to Surgeon on December 16th, 1828, to Superintending Surgeon on February 1st, 1843. He saw active service in the Third Maratha, Pindari, or Dekkan War (1817-1818), and died at Madras on December

Was commissioned as Hospital Mate for General Service on July 24th, 1812, and when this designation ceased, at the end of April, 1813, became Hospital Assistant to the Forces. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the 72nd Regiment of Foot on June 3rd, 1813, served with the Cape Corps from June 25th

Educated at Guy's Hospital. He practised throughout at Barnstaple, where he was Surgeon, and at the time of his death Consulting Surgeon, to the North Devon Infirmary. He died on January 21st, 1886.

Practised at Earls Colne, Essex, until his death in 1868. In 1818 he presented "The Original Obstetric Instruments of the Chamber-lens" to the Medico-Chirurgical Society. (See "Brief notice presented to the Medico-Chirurgical Society with the original obstetric instruments of the Chamber-lens," by