The youngest son of George Willis, of Florence Court, Co Fermanagh; distinguished himself as a student at Middlesex Hospital, and after acting there as House Physician, went out to Japan with Colonel St John Neil's Mission. Willis became well known to Sir Henry S Parkes, KCB, throughout some sixteen

Born on June 19th, 1841, at Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, the son of the Rev Frederick Sims, Rector of West Bergholt, Essex, and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He spent his early life in Suffolk, and was educated at Colchester Grammar School. Shortly before he was 16 he was apprenticed to the then w

Reginald Theobald Payne was born at Northampton on 15 March 1896. When he was aged 65 he published a remarkable book *The watershed* in which he gave a vivid picture of his childhood and schooldays. He was the eldest of four brothers, and as his father, who had a furniture business in the town, brou

Born on December 28th, 1817, and at the time of his death was the eldest surviving son of William FitzPatrick, of Castle Dunow, Queen's County. He passed the preliminary examination of the Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland when he was 15 years old, and was then apprenticed to Mr Fraser, a well-known gen

Was an articled pupil of James Luke (qv), who in 1853 and again in 1862 was President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Reed studied at the London Hospital, then practised at Hertford and acted as Physician and Surgeon to the Hertfordshire County Infirmary from 1843-1856. Sir Benjamin Brodie and Sir

Born at Liverpool on 5 June 1859, the second son and youngest child of Frederick Worthington, MRCS, LSA, of Abercrombie Street, Liverpool, surgeon to the Liverpool Lock Hospital, and Sophia de la Serre his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and at Guy's Hospital, where he served the office of

Educated at the London Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, Resident Accoucheur, and Resident Medical Officer. Later he was Resident Medical Officer at the Tower Hamlets Dispensary. In 1865-1866 he was House Surgeon at the Torbay Infirmary, Torquay. Subsequently he practised there, and was Physicia

Educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was Obstetric Resident. He started practice at Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, and was Physician to the Pembroke and Haverfordwest Infirmary, and then at Tenby. In 1870 he moved to London, practised at 67 High Street, Wandsworth, in partnership with Alfred Bro

Born in Sydney and was educated at three local schools. He came to Europe to finish his general education, and was enrolled as a student of medicine at University College, London, where he obtained medals for proficiency in anatomy and in medicine, and won the Fellowes Gold Medal as the most profici

Born at Liverpool on May 6th, 1847, the son and grandson of surgeons. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and at the University of Liverpool, where he was Medallist in Medicine, Surgery, and Pathology, also at Brussels. Becoming FRCS, he settled in practice at Blackburn as assistant to Dr Will

Born on board the flagship of Admiral Hayes, off the island of Java, the eldest son of Colonel Charles Thomas Higgins of the HEIC, then on shore at the time, leading his regiment in the storming of Batavia when it was taken from the French. Hence his second name Hayes. After a succession of schools

Born at Portsmouth on July 16th, 1817, the son of C W Hoffmeister, Collector of Customs at Belfast. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and at University College Hospital, London, where he was Clinical Clerk to Dr Elliotson and Dresser to Robert Liston. He settled in practice at Cowes in 18