Born in Bristol, the son of John Morton, Superintending Surgeon - a rank discontinued in 1872 - in the HEIC's service in the Madras Presidency. He was educated at Clifton College and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained numerous prizes, including the Brackenbury Medical Scholarship. He beca

George Smith was a consultant general surgeon at Scarborough General Hospital. He was born on 19 August 1936 in Nainital in the foothills of the Himalayas. His father was a civil engineer in the Indian Service of Engineers and his mother was a dentist, who had graduated from Edinburgh in the early 1

George Carr was a consultant surgeon in Stockport. He was born on 10 March 1922 at Monk Bretton, near Barnsley. His father, James Frederick Carr, began his working life aged 14 as a miner, but went on to get a mining degree from Sheffield University. He became a pilot in the first world war and was

Richard Alan Cobb was a consultant surgeon in Birmingham. He was born in Plymouth on 27 August 1953, the son of Alan Percival Cobb, a Royal Navy officer, and Sheila née Daly. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, where he was senior prefect, and then had a short service commission with the 3rd Ba

Louis Bloom Cohen spent much of his career as a surgeon in various politically unstable countries in Africa and in Iran. He was born in Glasgow on 16 November 1915, the son of Arthur Israel Cohen, a company director with the Rank Organisation, and Louise née Bloom. He was educated at St Paul's Schoo

Born at Oundle, Northamptonshire, the son of John Mould, in medical practice, who died whilst his son was a child. His mother married secondly the Rev Felix Laurent, Vicar of Saleby, Lincolnshire, and he was educated under his stepfather's superintendence at Afford, Lincolnshire. He was then apprent

Born on Nov 29th, 1779, the younger son of John Seager, of Shirehampton, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Warminster Grammar School, but it is not known where he received his professional training. He practised for many years at Cheltenham before, and probably after, 1810; he appears also to have

Practised in Northampton, where for twenty-nine years he was Surgeon to the General Infirmary until failing health, a few weeks before his death, compelled his resignation and he was succeeded by James Marsh (q.v.). He was also Surgeon to the Royal Victoria Dispensary, in which he was followed by hi

The son of a surgeon in good practice in Bath. After a short stay in London he returned to Bath and began professional life as his father’s assistant in the year 1801. On the death of an elder brother, a surgeon, he began to practise on his own account. In 1817 he succeeded his father as surgeon to

Was born at Shepton Mallet, in Somersetshire, in August, 1800, and received his elementary education under Mr Rogers, of Dursley, and Mr Mules, of Ilminster. He was apprenticed for five years to Richard Smith, Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1796-1843, for a fee of two hundred guineas. H

Born on August 19th, 1847, the only son of John Morgan (1820-1891) (qv); was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he matriculated on Oct 13th, 1866, and in 1870 graduated in the third class of the Natural Science School. It was as an athlete and runner that 'Johnnie Morgan

Studied at Bristol and Guy's Hospitals, practised first in Blake Street, York, and after 1880 at Langport, Somerset, where he was Medical Officer to the Workhouse and Medical Officer of Health to the Langport District. He died at Langport on August 7th, 1902.