Born in Queen Street, Glasgow, on April 29th, 1791, the son of James Mackenzie, a muslin manufacturer (d1800). He was educated in the Glasgow Grammar School and University, and began to study divinity with the intention of becoming a minister of the Church of Scotland. In 1810 he turned to medicine,

Studied and graduated at the University of Edinburgh, where he was House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary and Demonstrator of Anatomy. Coming to London he took the MRCS and FRCS examinations together, and began practice as a consulting surgeon at 6 Harley Street. He was first appointed Assistant Surge

Practised in Birmingham, and was Surgeon to the Edgbaston Eye Infirmary. In 1835 he gained the Jacksonian Prize for an essay on "Injuries and Diseases of the Larynx, also of the Trachea and its Treatment", which was afterwards published (8vo, London, 1837; Philadelphia, 1838, 1841). He was much este

Born at Kingsbridge, South Devon, on April 28th, 1813. He was educated at a private school at Tavistock and at Crediton Grammar School. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1838, being a fellow-student of Sir James Paget (qv). After further study in Paris, he settled at Plymouth in partnership wi

Born at Langford, Co Tyrone, in 1866, the third son of the Rev Canon Stack, and was educated at Haileybury School, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and then at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was Brackenbury Medical Scholar. He was known as a hard-working student, with a mechanical bent, and good

Born at Bourne in Lincolnshire on December 31st, 1852. He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital and passed the examination for MRCS a few months before he attained the legal age for qualifying. He served as an Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital for a short time until he was ele

The eldest son of Edward Henderson, MD, of Shanghai, he was born in China 18 February 1870, and was educated at Cheltenham College, where he gained a junior classical scholarship in 1882. Two years later he entered Harrow School, when Dr Butler was head master, and remained there until 1887. He then

Born in New Jersey, USA, and educated at Queen's College, Belfast, at Liverpool, and at King's College Hospital. After acting as House Surgeon at the Royal Southern Hospital under Sir Robert Jones, and at the Manchester Ship Canal Hospital, he was for ten years Medical Officer to the Buenos Ayres Po

Born in London on August 23rd, 1831, the second son of William Lawson, of the firm of Trower, Trower & Lawson, wine merchants of the City of London, by his wife, Anne Norton. After being educated at the Blackheath Proprietary School he entered King's College in 1848 and served for a year as House Su

Born in 1829 or 1830; studied at St George's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, and afterwards acted as Resident Attendant to a nobleman who left him a handsome sum of money in recognition of his services. This led him to become FRCS, and he succeeded in being elected Assistant Surgeon to St Geor

Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He was at one time Surgeon, and then Senior Surgeon, to the Leicester Infirmary, having retired from this post some seven or eight years before his death, at which time he was Surgeon to the County Lunatic Asylum. He was a well-known figure locally, a goo

Educated at Brighton College, and studied at Guy's Hospital, where he highly distinguished himself at the London University examinations and acted as House Surgeon, House Physician, Obstetric Resident, and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, and was good at sports. He was next House Surgeon at the Ro