Was for many years Physician to the Bank of Ireland and to the Dublin Metropolitan Police. In his practice he devoted considerable attention to phthisis, and was the author of several much-read works on this subject. He founded, or helped to found, several hospitals such as the Dublin Fever Hospital

Born on July 4th, 1771. He was appointed Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment, on April 8th, 1794, and on June 16th, 1795, became Surgeon, without purchase, to the 5th Dragoon Guards. His war record is remarkable. He served under the Duke of York in Holland and in Ireland

Son of the well-known mineralogist Henry James Brooke; was born June 30th, 1804. He was educated at Chiswick under Dr Turner and at Rugby, where he entered in 1819. He matriculated from St John’s College, Cambridge, and graduated BA in 1827 as 23rd Wrangler. He completed his medical education at St

Born near Bridgwater, Somerset, and was a fellow-apprentice with Thomas Wakley, founder of the *Lancet*, to Mr Incledon, an apothecary at Taunton. Grabham completed his term with a Mr Leroux, Surgeon at Clifton, and at the same time became a pupil of Mr Shute, Surgeon to the Bristol Infirmary. Subse

Entered the Army as Surgeon's Mate, unattached, on December 19th, 1811. In May, 1813, he became Hospital Assistant, and on June 3rd, 1813, was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 40th Foot. He went on half pay on October 26th, 1814, and exchanged on full pay, on February 16th, 1815, to the 74th Foot.

Came of highly respectable Quaker stock in Somersetshire. He was early apprenticed to Thomas Bell, of Poole, and in 1809 entered at St Thomas's Hospital. He practised for over forty-five years in Poole, where his circle of patients was extensive and he was greatly respected. His biographer in the *L

Born on November 19th, 1786, at 1 Newhall Street, Birmingham, the son of George Russell by his wife Martha, daughter of John Skey. His father, a Birmingham merchant, ruined at the outset of the American War, was a Unitarian and a prominent member of the congregation of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804).

Born in the Manse of Kiltarlity, one of the large Inverness-shire parishes, on July 5th, 1779; his father and his grandfather had been ministers of the parish. He was apprenticed to a medical man at Inverness and afterwards became a student at St George's Hospital, where he served the office of Hous

Born on October 21st, 1777; he joined the Army as Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment, on June 11th, 1801. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 61st Regiment of Foot on August 25th, 1804, and promoted to Surgeon of the Sicilian Regiment on March 17th, 1808. He again

Born on April 21st, 1815, the second son of Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, FAS (qv), the medical biographer, which explains the strangeness of his second christian name. His grandfather had been a Surgeon in the Royal Navy before he settled in practice in London. Pettigrew was admitted to Westminster Sch

The son of Robert McCormick, a Surgeon in the Royal Navy; born at Runham, near Great Yarmouth, on July 22nd, 1800, of an Irish family long settled in Co Tyrone. He was a pupil at the United Borough Hospitals in 1821, and entered the Royal Navy as an Assistant Surgeon in 1823. He served in the West I

Born at Poole, Dorsetshire, on October 11th, 1792, the only son of Thomas Bell, a surgeon. He entered Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals in 1813 and was appointed Dental Surgeon to Guy's Hospital in 1817, holding the post and lecturing on Dental Anatomy until 1861. In 1836 he was appointed Professor of