Born at Eythorne, Kent, where his father had a large practice up to 1804, when he removed to Wingham, in the same county. William was the eldest son, and was early sent to St Bartholomew's Hospital under Abernethy. He was appointed at the age of 21 on the medical staff of the Army serving in Sicily

Santanu Mukherji was a general practitioner in Yorkshire, with a special interest in cardiology. He was born in Calcutta. His father, Captain Maniklal Mukherji, was a founder member of the Indian Radiological Association, and physician to and friend of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, a winner of the N

Born in Dublin on 2 April 1858 the son of Arthur Hill Griffith solicitor, and his wife Hannah Rose Cottingham. The family emigrated to Australia in 1872, and he was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne from his fourteenth to eighteenth year. He took his medical training in England, qualifying at th

Educated at the Aldersgate School of Medicine, where he was at one time Demonstrator of Anatomy. He was afterwards a successful general practitioner in Claremont Square, then in Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell, and was a good operator. The son of an Army officer, he inherited a taste for military life

Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He had some experience in London, then practised for nearly half a century at Stevenage in Hertfordshire, and was well known throughout the county as a hard-working medical man. Although engaged in the quiet duties of a country practitioner, he determined

Born in Great Ormond Street, the seventh son of Robert Sibley, architect and surveyor to the County of Middlesex, and brother of George Sibley, the well-known civil engineer. He was educated at a private school and then at University College School, where he distinguished himself in mathematics, bei

Received his professional training at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, and the Middlesex Hospital. He was at first in general practice at Leigh, Lancashire, and then for many years at Bowdon, Cheshire. He died in 1884 or 1885.

Born in Drury Lane, where his father was for long in general practice, and was educated at the united hospitals of Guy's and St Thomas's and at the Middlesex Hospital. After qualifying he joined his father in his practice, and continued to carry it on in the same house until a few years before his d

Born at Brindisi, 10 August 1867, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Charles MacLeod, MRCP, FRCS, by his third wife Ann, daughter of George Golland. He was a grandson of John MacLeod, MD, Surgeon-General of Madras. Charles MacLeod was educated at Shrewsbury School, and entered the Westmi

John Daniel Henry Bird was born in Longcot, Berkshire on 4 August 1908. His father, Daniel Henry, was a schoolmaster. He was educated at Ranelagh School, Bracknell, where he won a scholarship to King's College Hospital Medical School where he had a notable academic career. He gained a BSc in physiol

Allen James Whitaker, the fifth son of Dr James Smith Whitaker who was formerly a family doctor in Great Yarmouth, was born in Hendon on 16 April 1905. His father, having been the first medical secretary of the British Medical Association, became senior medical officer at the Ministry of Health on i

George Elkington was born in Newport, Shropshire on 20 March 1889, the eldest child of two general practitioners, Ernest Alfred and Annie Isabella Baddeley. The Baddeley practice had existed in Newport since the 1770's and the Elkington family had practised medicine in Birmingham since the 1830's. G