The youngest child of Edmund Turner (d1821), banker, of Truro, and of Joanna his wife, daughter of Richard Ferris, was born at Truro on Aug 18th, 1793. He was educated at the Grammar School of his native town during the head-mastership of Cornelius Cardew, and was apprenticed to Nehemiah Duck, one o

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and began to practise at Barton Street, Gloucester, where he was Surgeon to the Infirmary and Magdalen Asylum. Next he was Resident Medical Superintendent at Barnwood House Hospital for the Insane. Later he practised for some time at Ilfracombe. He retired to 3

Born in Scotland early in the nineteenth century, studied at Edinburgh University, and settling in London soon acquired a large practice. He became Surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary, and lectured on pathology and pathological anatomy at the North London Medical School. Later he was Surge

Born on September 29th, 1772. He joined the Army as Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment, on May 20th, 1793. On December 10th, 1794, he was gazetted Surgeon to the 30th Foot, promoted to the Staff on April 4th, 1800, and on March 25th, 1809, became Deputy Inspector of Hos

Born at Cropredy, Oxfordshire, the third son of Egerton Stafford, Rector of Chacombe and of Thenford in Northamptonshire, and through his mother was of kin to William of Wykeham. He was educated privately at Tamworth and apprenticed to two noted practitioners of Cirencester, William Lawrence, father

Practised at St. Andrew's, Norwich. He was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1828, when there were three candidates and 429 Governors attended to vote. Two years later he became Surgeon on the death of Henry Carter, and resigned in 1857, when he was elected Consulting

Joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on March 18th, 1805, being promoted to Surgeon on Jan 20th, 1817, to Superintending Surgeon on March 11th, 1831, and becoming a member of the Medical Board in October, 1840. He retired in January, 1841, and resided at Exeter. He died at Bath, after a long

Came of a family long settled in Durham and was born at Norton in that county. Educated at Witton-le-Wear, he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as a pensioner in on May 18th, 1799, and graduated MB in 1804. He was apprenticed to Sir Anthony Carlisle, Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, where he

Born on Sept. 11th, 1781, the second of the sons of a merchant who had made a fortune in the West Indies. He was educated at Greenwich at the school kept by the Rev. Charles Burney, D.D., son of the historian of music, whose library was bought by the nation to be preserved in the British Museum as t

Born on Aug 1st, 1778, and entered the service of the HEIC. He was appointed Regimental Mate to the 89th Foot on April 1st, 1797, and a month later, May 1st, became Assistant Surgeon to the same regiment. He was transferred to the 5th Dragoon Guards on Aug 10th, 1799, and was gazetted Surgeon to the

Born at Chapel, near Ladybank, Fife, March 15th, 1794; educated at the High School and at the University of Edinburgh. Began his medical studies in Edinburgh, and continued them in London, Vienna, and in Paris under Dupuytren. He attached himself to the Middlesex Hospital, where he was for many year

Practised in Paris. He died on or before May 7th, 1852.