Born at Dorchester on Aug 12th, 1787. He was educated at Lymington, Hants, was then placed under a well-known surgeon at Salisbury, and in 1807 entered St Thomas’s Hospital, where, under the tuition of Sir Astley Cooper and Cline, he soon acquired a superior knowledge of anatomy and surgery. Sir Ast

Born on 1 July 1915, Lord Leverhulme was the grandson of the first Viscount, who began as a grocer and built up Lever Brothers as a worldwide business, establishing soap factories all over the world and pioneering the development of West Africa and the Congo. Philip Leverhulme was educated at Eton a

Born at Caerphilly on December 6th, 1821, the son of a medical man who had an extensive country practice, which he conducted on horseback; he was proud of his stable, and his son had the advantage of an active outdoor life in his boyhood and after his apprenticeship to his father. William Edwards (1

Born at Barnsley on 20 November 1878, the sixth son of Thomas Braithwaite, master coachmaker, and his wife, *née* Wadsworth. He was educated at Heath Grammar School before entering the Leeds Medical School, then a constituent of the Victoria University, where he had a brilliant career. He was electe

Born on November 11th, 1837, at Brighouse, Yorkshire, the second surviving child of Thomas Jessop, a solicitor, by his wife, who was a Miss Haley. He was educated at the Giggleswick Grammar School under Dr Butterton and John Howson, father of John Saul Howson, Dean of Chester, and was apprenticed fo

Born at Gosberton, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, the son of a farmer. Educated at University College School and University College, London, and received his professional training at St. Thomas's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon and Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical School. He started practic

Born at Godalming on 8 November 1889, the elder son of the Rev William Francis Romanis, Preacher of the Charterhouse, and Annie Ellen Cowie, he was educated at Charterhouse where he was a scholar and became head of the school. Going up to Trinity College, Cambridge as a mathematical scholar he obtai

Born at Peterborough on August 18th, 1835, the son of Dr Thomas Walker, a native of Dumfriesshire who traced descent from John Knox, the Reformer. Thomas Walker practised in Peterborough, where both he and his wife lived to be over ninety years of age. Thomas James Walker went to the King's Schoo

Born at Kibworth in October, 1834, the son of John Marriott, MRCS, who practised at Kibworth for fifty-five years, while his grandfather practised there for over fifty years. He went to Uppingham School and was then a pupil of Henry Terry (qv), Surgeon to Northampton Hospital. After three years' app

Born of a well-known Norfolk family of farmers. Served an apprenticeship at Kingston-on-Thames with Mr Taylor, father of Professor Sadler Taylor, Trinity College, Cambridge, who contributed an “Appreciation” to his Obituary Notes. He then entered University College Hospital, and after qualifying MRC

Born at Edinburgh on Nov 1st, 1842, the son of Peter S Banks, Writer to the Signet. He received his early education at Edinburgh Academy and passed from there to the University of Edinburgh. Graduated MD with honours, and won the Gold Medal for his thesis on the Wolffian bodies in 1864. Acted for a

The third son of John Cock, junr, an underwriter at Lloyd's, by his marriage with Maria, daughter of Baron Hesse, of Potsdam in Prussia, was born at Tottenham, Middlesex, on January 26th, 1805. The family of Cock was connected with that of Henry Cline, Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, and it was thr