The younger son of Thomas Hovell, of Wyverstone, Suffolk, who had been educated at the London Hospital and had practised at Clapton, North London. Dennis, together with his elder brother, Mark, also studied at the London Hospital, being articled to John Scott, Surgeon to the London Hospital. Both br

Born at Bath, where his father and his mother, Miss Stothert, came of families well known in the City. Educated at King's College Hospital and was a Resident Officer at the Middlesex Hospital. He practised in Bath, first at 41, and after 1876 at 13, Gay Street, becoming Medical Officer to the Easter