Educated at Edinburgh, St Thomas’s, and Guy’s Hospitals. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to the Gateshead Dispensary and Lying-in Charity. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Durham. He died at his residence, High Street, Gateshead, Durham, on Aug or Sept 24th, 1866. Publications: “On t

Educated in London and Paris. Was at one time Surgeon to the Somerset Militia and Coroner for North Somerset. He was Mayor of Bath in 1859-1860, and at the time of his death was JP for Bath and Surgeon to the St Catherine’s Hospital and Bath Eye and Ear Infirmary, and also Hon Consulting Physician t

William Hey II was the second son of William Hey I (1736-1819); he followed his father as a surgeon at Leeds, and, like him, was Surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary. He died at Leeds, after being twice Mayor, on March 13th, 1844. He was succeeded in turn by his son William Hey III (qv). Publication:- *T

Born at Crickhowell, Brecon, the eldest of ten children; his father emigrated to Canada after practising for many years in Breconshire. The family of Bird had belonged to Herefordshire from Norman times, and the Gwynnes were an old Welsh family belonging to Cwnhordy. G G Bird was apprenticed to his

Entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital as a pupil of John Abernethy. Started practice in Manchester, living for many years in Moseley Street; in 1815, on the establishment of the Eye Hospital, he was appointed Surgeon, and on his retirement Consulting Surgeon. In a paper on the “Treatment of Accidental C

The third son of Ebenezer Pye Smith (qv). He was born in London in 1848, studied at Guy's Hospital, and in 1876 settled in general practice at 45 Glossop Road, Sheffield. In 1877 he was elected Surgeon to the Public Hospital and Dispensary, which subsequently became the Sheffield Royal Hospital. The

The son of Dr J W Clarke, of Huddersfield, praised by Sir William Broadbent as "the best general practitioner he had ever met". He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he had been a Foundation Scholar, and was 33rd Wrangler. He received his medical education at the University, and compl

The son of Edward Jobson, of Elswick, was apprenticed to his uncle, Dr Frost, of Newcastle, and next served as apprentice assistant to Dr Leighton, of Newcastle, whose pupil at that time was Dennis Embleton. He then studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and having qualified distinguished himse

Born at Lancaster of a medical family settled there for a hundred years. His grandfather and father both practised in the town. His father, Christopher Johnson, senr, was an Edinburgh graduate, and for more than half a century a leading practitioner who cultivated both literature and science. His el

Educated in Dublin, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in Paris. He practised at Burton-on-Trent in partnership with Robert Sherratt Tomlinson, and was at one period Surgeon to the Dispensary, to the Union, and to the Infirmary, of which latter institution he was Consulting Surgeon at the time of his

William Edmund Image, born in 1807, of French Huguenot extraction, was apprenticed to John Greene Crosse of Norwich, then studied at Guy's Hospital and in Paris, where he graduated Bachelier ès Lettres. At the outbreak of the Revolution in 1830 he returned and settled in practice at Bury St Edmunds,

Belonged to a family prominent through several generations at East Stonehouse between Plymouth and Devonport, where for many years his father was in practice. He, too, practised at East Stonehouse for some twenty years until 1859. From 1856 he was in partnership with Christopher Bulteel, who was Sur