The son of the Rev Richard Meade, of Princes Risboro', Buckinghamshire; served his apprenticeship at the Bedford Infirmary and then went on to St Bartholomew's Hospital. On his 85th birthday he recalled his student days, his teachers, Sir William Lawrence, Earle, P M Latham, and his fellow-student,

The son of a wheelwright at Canterbury, where he was born on July 4th, 1803. He was first apprenticed to his father's trade, but becoming interested in insect life he was appointed curator of a museum of natural history established by Mr Masters, a nurseryman in the town, next apprenticed to William