Born at Glenridding Westmoreland on 20 October 1880 he was the eldest son of Francis Charles MacNalty MD, MCh, sometime senior assistant physician to the Metropolitan Hospital, London, and Hester Emma Frances, nee Gardner, who was the grand-daughter of Sir John Piozzi Salisbury. MacNalty's boyhood w

Born on 2 March 1871 at Huyton, he was educated at Liverpool University and University College Hospital graduating in 1893, after which he held house appointments at Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Later he became a demonstrator of anatomy and surgical tutor. He settled in Harrogate in 1894 and commen

Charles Ernest Lakin was born in 1878, the son of a general practitioner who became the Mayor of Leicester. He was educated at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School where he was a First Entrance Scholar, and won Broderip and Freeman Scholarships, and qualified in 1901 with the Conjoint Diploma, and

Educated at Queen's College, Belfast, where he qualified in 1893, and at the London Hospital, he took the Fellowship within a month of taking the Conjoint diplomas in 1896. Settling in Natal, South Africa, he was appointed Physician to Grey's Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. He was also medical officer o

The fifth son of Robert Collum, MD, of the HEIC, who had been Staff Surgeon to Sir Charles Napier, and who afterwards practised as a physician in London. He retired first to Harmondsworth in Middlesex and then to Surbiton. A T Collum was educated at Epsom College, and entered Charing Cross Hospital

Educated at Guy's Hospital, and practised for many years at 93 Denmark Hill, SE, where he was Surgeon to the Camberwell Provident Dispensary. He was a barrister of the Middle Temple, and towards the close of his life he moved to 27 Warwick Square, SW, and was appointed Physician to the National Hosp

Born at Nottingham in December, 1816, and received his preliminary education in Doncaster. He was then apprenticed to Mr Carrick, of Kensington, and proceeded, after serving his time, to St George's Hospital, where he became Assistant and afterwards House Surgeon under Brodie and Keate. From St Geor

Henry Beric Wright was director of medical services at BUPA. He studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1942. Prior to his appointment at BUPA, he was a surgical officer at Shell, an assistant surgical registrar at University College Hospital and a major in the

Sir Donald Acheson was Chief Medical Officer for England from 1983 to 1991, a period that included the rise of HIV infection and the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis. He was born in Belfast on 17 September 1926, the son of Malcolm King Acheson, a doctor specialising in public health, an

Born 2 December 1857 at Ynyscynhaiarn, Carnarvonshire, the eldest son and second child of the Rev Thomas Jones (born 1826) of Cefnmaesydd, afterwards of Eisteddfa, Criccieth, a small landed proprietor, and Elizabeth, the only daughter of Robert Jones of Eisteddfa; seven of their ten children grew up

Howell Pritchard Jones was a consultant general surgeon at Birkenhead who retrained as a physician in rehabilitative medicine following a stroke. He was born in Cerrig-y-drudion, north Wales, on 2 September 1918, the son of William Thomas Jones and Jane Jones née Hughes. The family moved to Rhewl, n

Born on May 21st, 1848, in London. He was educated at University College and studied at Guy's Hospital. After holding a hospital appointment in Manchester and being threatened with tuberculosis, he acted for two years as Surgeon on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's ships. On his return he