Born on October 2nd, 1836, in the house in Preston (27 Winckley Square) where his father had practised and where he himself died. His father was Alderman Robert Brown (1801-1858), (qv), for thirty-five years a leading Preston practitioner. Robert Charles Brown was educated at Preston Grammar School

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he died at an early age on February 25th, 1868. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to the Royal General Dispensary in St Bartholomew's Close, and a member of the Pathological Society. He had previously been Surgeon to the Islington Dispensary and Ass

The eldest son of George K Cowell, an Ipswich surgeon; served as an apprentice to a practitioner in Birmingham; entered as a student at St George's Hospital, where he held minor and residential appointments under Henry Gray (qv), the anatomist, Prescott Hewett (qv), and Timothy Holmes (qv). Shortly

Studied at the Exeter and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. Entering the Navy, he served on HMS *Hydra* and HMS *Vesuvius* on West India Stations during 1860-1864. During the yellow fever epidemic in 1864 he was attached to the Royal Naval Hospital, Bermuda. From 1865-1867 he was Assistant Surgeon at Gree

Studied at the Webb Street School and at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He practised at Bexley Heath, and then at Belvedere, Kent, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary and Assistant Surgeon to the 12th Kent Volunteers. At one time he was President of the West Kent Natural History Society, and al

Born at Devonport, the son of Paul William Swain (qv). He was educated at King's College Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. During the Crimean War in 1855 he served as Surgical Dresser on HMS *Exmouth*. On settling in Plymouth he was appointed Surgeon to the Royal Albert Hospital, Devonport, a