The son of William Bennett, born at Coventry, where his father had built the Royal Opera House. He studied at Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, and became Resident Surgical Officer at the General and at the Jaffray Hospitals. He gained further experience at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and in Paris before

Came of a family of Lutheran Pastors, of long standing in East Prussia and Livonia, his father being Pastor of Rujen in Livonia; but his mother, having to take refuge from an epidemic, he was born at Riga, then the capital of the Russian Baltic Provinces, in December, 1836. On leaving school he fai

Born on March 10th, 1779. Joined the Cumberland Militia as Surgeon on June 21st, 1803, and the Army as a Staff Surgeon on January 2nd, 1806. He retired on half pay on February 25th, 1816. He served in Buenos Ayres in 1807 and in the Peninsular War from 1812-1814. In later life he lived for many year

Was House Surgeon to the General Hospital, Birmingham, and then practised at Stourbridge, Worcestershire, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary and District Medical Officer to the Stourbridge Union. He migrated to Galt in Canada West between the years 1855-1858. He died probably before 1871, when h

Tony Gabriel was formerly the senior surgeon at the Cancer Hospital, Maharagama, Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was born in London on 10 January 1925 and died in Colombo on 21 December 2007 after a short illness, a few days before his 83rd birthday. He was described by one writer ‘as a person who loved the

John Coals was a consultant surgeon in accident and emergency surgery at Chester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Highbury, London, on 8 February 1930, the son of John Rueben Coals, a shipping agent, and Alice Maud Beatrice née Ensor. He was educated at St Andrew’s Church School and Enfield Grammar S

Educated at Guy’s Hospital. He practised latterly at 46 Montagu Square, W, where he died on May 12th, 1886.

Born in Shrewsbury on May 18th, 1856, the son of Major James Boyd, 86th Regiment, and Emma, daughter of Henry Newton, a burgess of Shrewsbury. He spent his boyhood with his parents at St Heliers, Jersey, where he was educated in a private school. “I can go back to the charm of his Jersey home at St

Practised for a time in Weymouth and afterwards in Sydney, New South Wales. He was at one time Surgeon to the Weymouth Infirmary. He resided latterly at 24 Lexham Gardens, SW, and died there on April 15th, 1902. Publication:- “On the Structure of the Mucous Membrane of the Stomach,” 8vo, 2 plates,

Born in October, 1816, the son of William Boyes, merchant, of London. He entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Aug 1st, 1841, being promoted Surgeon to the 2nd Bengal Calvary on October 8th, 1855. He was officiating Medical Storekeeper at Cawnpore when the Indian Mutiny broke out, and succ

Howard Michael Parsons was an ENT surgeon in Lewisham and then Croydon. He was born in Paddington, London, on 14 April 1918, during a Zeppelin raid, the third child of John Parsons, a master builder, and his wife Maude Parsons née Percival. He was educated at St Andrews Prep School, Eastbourne and t

Jashbhai Patel was a general surgeon who practised in India, the UK and the USA. He was born on 30 November 1927 in Dharmpuri in the Baroda District of Gujarat State, the second son of a farmer, Nathabhai Ukabhai Patel and his wife Chanchalben. After initially attending local schools he won a schola