Served his apprenticeship to Dr Redwood, of Rhymney, and finished his professional training at Guy's Hospital. He settled in Aberdare in 1845, when the population of the town only numbered some 7000 persons, but had increased sevenfold at the time of his death. In 1863 he was appointed Medical Offi

Born at Chesterfield, the son of Peter Redfern, distinguished for scientific attainments; he was educated privately in classics, and then apprenticed for five years to Richard Collis Botham, who was Surgeon to the Chesterfield Union and Workhouse. Redfern and another apprentice, C E Black, who after