Born at Northleach, Gloucestershire; after attending the local Grammar School, was apprenticed in 1832 to Mr Cornwall at Fairford until September, 1836, when he entered the Webb Street School under Richard Grainger. He also attended Guy's Hospital under Aston Key and the medical practice of St Thoma

Born at Tiverton on December 14th, 1819, the sixth son of Captain Henry Waring, RN, of the city of Hereford. The family was peculiarly gifted, several of the brothers being well known in the world of letters. The second son, George, a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Wadham and Magdalen Ha