Born at Edinburgh on Nov 1st, 1842, the son of Peter S Banks, Writer to the Signet. He received his early education at Edinburgh Academy and passed from there to the University of Edinburgh. Graduated MD with honours, and won the Gold Medal for his thesis on the Wolffian bodies in 1864. Acted for a

Educated at Edinburgh, St Thomas’s, and Guy’s Hospitals. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to the Gateshead Dispensary and Lying-in Charity. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Durham. He died at his residence, High Street, Gateshead, Durham, on Aug or Sept 24th, 1866. Publications: “On t

The third son of John Cock, junr, an underwriter at Lloyd's, by his marriage with Maria, daughter of Baron Hesse, of Potsdam in Prussia, was born at Tottenham, Middlesex, on January 26th, 1805. The family of Cock was connected with that of Henry Cline, Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, and it was thr

Educated at Guy's Hospital, and for a time was Demonstrator of Anatomy. He practised first at Whitchurch, Hampshire, then at Evesham. In 1832 at the Worcester Meeting he seconded Sir Charles Hastings' proposal to found the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, subsequently the British Medical

Born on November 11th, 1837, at Brighouse, Yorkshire, the second surviving child of Thomas Jessop, a solicitor, by his wife, who was a Miss Haley. He was educated at the Giggleswick Grammar School under Dr Butterton and John Howson, father of John Saul Howson, Dean of Chester, and was apprenticed fo

The son of Edward Jobson, of Elswick, was apprenticed to his uncle, Dr Frost, of Newcastle, and next served as apprentice assistant to Dr Leighton, of Newcastle, whose pupil at that time was Dennis Embleton. He then studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and having qualified distinguished himse

Born at Lancaster of a medical family settled there for a hundred years. His grandfather and father both practised in the town. His father, Christopher Johnson, senr, was an Edinburgh graduate, and for more than half a century a leading practitioner who cultivated both literature and science. His el

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and then practised at 71 St Giles' Street, Norwich. He was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1830, full Surgeon in 1839, and resigned his office in September, 1847. In 1855 he was elected Mayor of Norwich. He died at Norwich on Janu

Educated at University College and Hospital. He practised first at Bideford, where he was Magistrate and JP for the Borough. He lived latterly at Berkeley Villa, Cheltenham, and died there in 1870.

Educated at University College and practised at Tewkesbury, where he was at one time Medical Examining Surgeon of Army Recruits, and at the time of his death Senior Surgeon to the Dispensary and Medical Officer of Health, as well as Surgeon to the Midland Railway and Medical Referee to the Railway P

Practised in Norwich, where in 1850 he was elected Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in the place of John Greene Crosse (qv) without having served as Assistant Surgeon. He resigned the post in 1872 and was elected Consulting Surgeon. He was also Consulting Surgeon to the Norwich Bethel Hos

Received his professional education at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals. At the time of his death he was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London, a member of the Royal College of Chemistry, and of the Epidemiological, London Meteorological, and Norfolk and West Suffolk Archaeological Societies,