Practised at St John Street, Great Broughton, Chester, and was Surgeon to the General Infirmary in succession to George Harrison, senr (? His father) (qv), whom he predeceased on or before October 26th, 1849.

Belonged to an old county family in Herefordshire. He was the youngest of eleven children, and was educated at Hereford Cathedral School, after which he was apprenticed to John Griffiths, surgeon, of Hereford. He received his professional training at University College, London, the Middlesex Hospita

*He was born in 1813 in Mirfield, Yorkshire the son of John Ikin and Mary Ikin née Ingham. After study at Leeds, Edinburgh, London, and Paris was in general practice in Leeds and York - at Cookridge Street and 19 Park Place, Leeds; at 24 St Paul's Square, York; at 29, Reginald Terrace, Leeds. He