The son of Henry Swan, Surgeon to the County Hospital at Lincoln, where his ancestors had been doctors for several generations. He was apprenticed to his father, and was sent to the United Borough Hospitals in 1810. He became a pupil of Henry Cline the younger, and gained the warm friendship of Astl

The son of Isaac and Alicia Callaway. His parents died young and he was educated by his grandfather, who was Steward to Guy's Hospital and lived within its precincts. He was apprenticed in 1809 to Sir Astley Cooper, and in 1815 he went to Brussels directly after the Battle of Waterloo. He was electe

Born on Oct 28th, 1794, in the Manse of Ecclesmachan, Linlithgowshire, the eldest child of Henry Liston (1771-1836) by his wife Margaret, daughter of David Ireland, Town Clerk of Culross. Henry Liston was the inventor of the ‘Euharmonic’ organ designed to give the diatonic scales in perfect order, a

Born at Stamford Hill on Jan 10th, 1797, the second son of William Morgan, the noted Actuary to the Equitable Life Assurance Office and a native of Glamorganshire, where the family had been landowners for centuries. His father began life as a medical student and is said to have come from Glamorgansh

Studied under Percivall Pott at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and Pott was one of his eight examiners for Membership of the Corporation. He practised in Lamb's Conduit Street, and was President of the National Institute of Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery. For the last two years he practised in Portman

Born in 1767, and thus the earliest born among the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. The “Examination Book” of Sept 2nd, 1790, has entries that “Diplomas were granted to John Curtis, Richard H H Steel of Marlowe, William Hodgson and Richard Harrison”. The examiners were Messrs Hawkins, Lucas

Was commissioned Assistant Surgeon to the 1st Foot Guards on Dec 25th, 1796. This, says Colonel Johnston in a note, is “the earliest date of a Regimental Assistant Surgeon's commission, though not the first to be gazetted”. The first to be gazetted was Robert Lawson, Assistant Surgeon to the 4th Dra

The son of John Carden, Surgeon to the Worcester Infirmary, born at Worcester, was educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. His elder brother, Thomas, had succeeded his father and was in turn succeeded by Henry Douglas, who held the post from 1888-1861, when he became Consulting Surgeon. He enjoyed a

Born September 15th, 1797, fourth son of Samuel Bishop of Pimperne, Dorsetshire; educated at the Child-Okeford Grammar School in Dorsetshire. It was intended that he should be a lawyer, but at the age of 25 he was induced by his cousin, John Tucker, of Bridport, to become a doctor. He entered St Geo

Practised as a Surgeon in Gloucester, where at one time he was Surgeon to the General Infirmary. He gave an address at Ealing in 1863. His death occurred at 11 Spa Walk, Gloucester, on November 29th, 1875.

The son of a land agent in Shropshire. He became apprentice at an early age to a Mr Taylor, of Middlewick, and after serving his term was assistant to Richard Hughes, the well-known Stafford surgeon, with whom he gained much experience. He then continued his studies at the London Hospital and at St.

The son of John Phillips, surgeon, of Pall Mall and Great Burton, Suffolk, was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Grenadier Guards on June 16th, 1808. He was with his regiment in the Walcheren Expedition, in Spain at the Battle of Barosa, for which he received the Medal, and at the Battle of Corunna