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

Born in 1799, his mother being the daughter of Dr Madan, Bishop of Peterborough, and the 'Miss Madan' of the poet Cowper's correspondence. This lady died when her son was young, and his education was undertaken by an aunt. After apprenticeship he became a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1819

Born at 39 College Green, Bristol, on July 16th, 1818, the second son of James Cowles Prichard, FRS, a physician, famous as the author of *The Natural History of Man*. His mother was the daughter of Dr Estlin, Unitarian Minister and Co-Pastor at Lewin's Mead Chapel, a scholar and friend of Coleridge

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

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

The youngest child of James Wardrop (1738-1830) by his wife Marjory, daughter of Andrew Marjoribanks of Marjoribanks. He was born on August 14th, 1782, at Torbane Hall, a small property owned by his forefathers for many generations. It adjoined the parish celebrated as the birthplace of the Hunters

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

Born at Brisbane, Australia, 22 February 1880, he was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and entered the Queensland public service. At the age of 22 he entered the University of Sydney, and graduated in medicine in 1907. He was a resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, started general

Educated at the Newcastle Medical School (University of Durham) and Guy's Hospital, he joined the resident staff of the Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. He went back to Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1901 as assistant surgeon to the Northumberland and Durham Eye Infirmary, but returned to Brighton in 1907 as

Born at Brighton, and received his education at New College School, Oxford. He was then apprenticed to James Fernandez Clarke, the well-known medical biographer attached to the staff of the *Lancet*, and afterwards completed his professional training at Charing Cross Hospital, where, among other pri

Born in New Zealand, a brother of the Hon Robert McNab, at one time Minister of Agriculture. He graduated BA and BSc at Otago, then entered Edinburgh University, where he became distinguished as a Rugby football player, being in the first reserve for Scotland, and President of the Athletic Club. He

Born 12 July 1869 at Romford, Essex, the fourth child and third son of Octavius George Daldy, coal and timber merchant, and his wife, *née* Mantell. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, and at Guy's Hospital, and was awarded a gold medal at the London University MB BS examination. Daldy was in