Born on July 16th, 1783, at Cirencester, where his father, William Lawrence (1753-1837), was the chief surgeon of the town. His mother was Judith, second daughter of William Wood, of Tetbury, Gloucestershire. The younger son, Charles Lawrence (1794-1881), was a scientific agriculturist who took a le

Born at Leeds on June 28th, 1831, the eldest son of Thomas Pridgin Teale, senr (qv), and succeeded his father both officially and in practice. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School, entered Winchester College in 1844, and matriculated from Brasenose College, Oxford, on February 2nd, 1849. He gradu

Born in London 15 July 1874, the third son of Edward Henry Physick Eason, auctioneer and surveyor, of Bishopsgate, and his wife Mary Ann Moore. He nearly died of double pneumonia at the age of eleven, and was educated at a private school in Dulwich, at University College, London, and at Guy's Hospit

Born 4 November 1868, the sixth child and third son of Arthur Lister (1830-1908), FRS, merchant and botanist, and his wife, née Tindall. Arthur Lister was a younger brother of Joseph Lister, and William grew up in the centre of a most gifted medico-scientific family, comparable only to the Darwins.

Benjamin William Rycroft was born in a small village in Yorkshire in 1902. In his youth he learned to play the organ well enough to do so in his parish church and thus was mildly attracted to the ministry as a profession. Instead, he studied medicine in St Andrew's University (1919-1924) and after q

The son of Richard Jones, born at St Andrews on January 9th, 1808. His father (d1821) was one of the Secretaries of HM Customs for Scotland. He was descended on his father's side from a wealthy Shropshire family and on his mother's side from an old Essex family named Alliston, or Elliston, whose lan