The son of a Suffolk yeoman, born near Stowmarket, in which town he was apprenticed at an early age to Mr Bailey, the surgeon-apothecary, whose daughter he married in 1815. After his apprenticeship he studied at St George's Hospital and at the Windmill Street School of Anatomy, where he soon gained

Born on May 13th, 1805, in Jeffrey Square, St Mary Axe, the son of Isaac Solly, a Baltic merchant. He was educated under Eliezer Cogan (1762-1855), the Unitarian schoolmaster of Higham Hill, Walthamstow, where he had Disraeli, Dr Hampden - afterwards Bishop of Hereford - and Russell Gurney as his sc

The eldest son of E T Cox, a well-known Birmingham surgeon (1769-1863). After education at King Edward VI Grammar School and at the General Hospital, Birmingham, he studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, (1821-1823), and at the École de Médecine, Paris (1824). Early in his career he conceived