Born in Norfolk, the son of Henry Carter Wigg, senr; was taken out to Geelong, Australia, in January, 1853. He returned in 1859 to King's Lynn, was a pupil at Mr Lupton's school, and was so interested in chemistry as to perform the illustrative experiments after his master's lecture, becoming so abs

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

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and practised at Yarnton Lodge, Great Malvern, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary and Accoucheur to the Great Malvern Lying-in Charity, Physician and Surgeon to the Malvern Rural Hospital. He died on June 15th, 1884.

Graduated at Cambridge from Cavendish College, and acted for a time as a Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy before entering St Thomas's Hospital. He served as House Physician at the Brompton Hospital for Consumption; at the Hospital for Children, Liverpool; and he was also Demonstrator of Anatomy at the

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

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 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 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

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

Born near Taunton, his father, a farmer on a large scale, being descended from an old Somerset family. He entered University College, London, as a medical student in 1840 and carried off many prizes. He was a favourite pupil of Liston, and acted as House Surgeon. After studying in Paris he settled i