Born in India, the second son of Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, Bart, GCB, GCSI, who in turn was the youngest son of David Pollock, of Charing Cross, saddler to George III, and had married in 1810 his first wife, Frances Webbe, daughter of T Barclay, Sheriff of Tain. George David Pollock's two un

Born at Bourne in Lincolnshire on December 31st, 1852. He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital and passed the examination for MRCS a few months before he attained the legal age for qualifying. He served as an Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital for a short time until he was ele

Born at Gawcott, Buckinghamshire, on July 14th, 1855, the second son of the Rev T C Whitehead, Head Master of Christ's College, Finchley. He studied at Charing Cross Hospital, and, becoming FRCS, was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital in 1881. He was also Assistant Surgeon to the

Born in the West of Ireland; Sligo had been the home of several distinguished Taaffes. In early life he came to England and was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1856 he settled in practice at Brighton as partner of Sir John Cordy Burrows, afterwards practising alone. He was appointed in 18

Born in 1866, he was educated at Aberdeen University, the Middlesex and King's College Hospitals. He was a house surgeon at the Gloucestershire General Infirmary and Eye Hospital and then ophthalmic clinical assistant at the Middlesex Hospital. He settled in practice at Lewes, Sussex and was appo

Vincent Nesfield was born in India on 12 October 1879, the son of John Collinson Nesfield, Director of Education in India, and Ellen Blumhardt, a missionary who had been through the siege of Lucknow during the Mutiny. He entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1897 and completed a successful ca

Born on October 14th, 1832, the son of Daniel Macnamara, surgeon, of Uxbridge, a brother, George Macnamara, succeeding his father in the practice. Charles Macnamara in late years travelled in Co Clare and traced the origin of his Sept with full topographical detail in his *Story of an Irish Sept* (1

Born at Brighton, and received his education at New College School, Oxford. He was then apprenticed to James Fernandez Clarke, the well-known medical biographer attached to the staff of the *Lancet*, and afterwards completed his professional training at Charing Cross Hospital, where, among other pri

Born in Queen Street, Glasgow, on April 29th, 1791, the son of James Mackenzie, a muslin manufacturer (d1800). He was educated in the Glasgow Grammar School and University, and began to study divinity with the intention of becoming a minister of the Church of Scotland. In 1810 he turned to medicine,

Born in 1829 or 1830; studied at St George's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, and afterwards acted as Resident Attendant to a nobleman who left him a handsome sum of money in recognition of his services. This led him to become FRCS, and he succeeded in being elected Assistant Surgeon to St Geor

Came of a Yorkshire family collateral with that of the poet, and born at Manchester, where his father, the Rev William Wordsworth, was curate. He was apprenticed in 1840 to John Jesse, a well-known Manchester practitioner, from whom he derived all the advantages of a well-ordered apprenticeship. He

The second son of Philip Chilwell de la Garde (qv) by Susan, second daughter of the Rev John Lempriere, DD (1765?-1824), author of the *Classical Dictionary*, who was Master of the Exeter Free Grammar School from 1809-1823. John L Delagarde was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gave p