Born on October 31st, 1780, entered the Army on November 9th, 1799, as Surgeon's Mate unattached, was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 88th Foot on September 10th, 1803, was promoted to be Surgeon on May 30th, 1805, to Staff Surgeon on May 23rd, 1811, to Deputy Inspector of Hospitals on September 2

Practised in Nottingham, where he was a Surgeon to the General Hospital, to the Lunatic Asylum, and to the Dispensary. He died in retirement at Arnold, near Nottingham, on February 4th, 1854.

Practised at 26 Watling Street, Canterbury, where he was Surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, and to the St Augustine County Prison. He died on May 3rd, 1861.

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

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

The son of a well-known Winchester surgeon; studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals under Cline and Astley Cooper. He then followed his father in practice at Winchester, and from 1827 was Surgeon to the Winchester County Hospital, having as colleagues Henry Giles Lyford (qv) and Charles Mayo (qv)

Born on November 1st, 1797, in Greengate, Salford, Manchester, and was the descendant of an old Northumbrian family. One of his ancestors was at Christ’s College, Cambridge, with John Milton, whose constant friend he remained. John Boutflower’s father was John Boutflower, surgeon, of Salford, and hi

The fourth son of William Keate, D.D., rector of Laverton, Somerset; was born at Laverton on March 14th, 1777. John Keate, his elder brother (1773-1852), was the well-known and ferocious head master of Eton. Robert Keate was educated at Bath Grammar School until 1792, when he was apprenticed to his

The son of John Thomas, of Hawarden, Flintshire, by his wife, Maria, sister of John Boydell, the publisher and engraver, Lord Mayor of London in 1790. He came to London as a young man with an introduction to John Hunter; he acted as dresser at St George's Hospital, where he also a pupil of William C

Born at Newbury, Berkshire, where his father, Osman Vincent, was a silk merchant and banker, living at Donnington. Captain Richard Budd Vincent, CB (1770?-1831), was John's elder brother. Vincent was apprenticed to William Long (d 1829), Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Bluecoat School,

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