Born 14 June 1867 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the second son and third child of Henry Parker, manager of the Elswick lead works, Newcastle, and Mary Phillips, his wife. On 5 October 1908 he took the extra name of Dodds, and after that date was known as Dodds-Parker. He was educated privately until he en

Ralph Ger was a clinical anatomist and innovative surgeon, who spent most of his working life in New York at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He emigrated from South Africa during the period of apartheid, and obtained much of his surgical training in the United Kingdom after war service in t

Worked with Sir Charles Bell at the Windmill Street School and served under him at the Middlesex Hospital, where he acted as House Surgeon; when Bell was appointed Professor of Surgery Hind followed him to University College Hospital. Here he instituted the Anatomical and Pathological Museum, and wa

Born 24 August 1856 at 4 Friar Street, Reading, the son of James Haslam, a land and estate agent and auctioneer, and Catherine Clarke his wife. He was educated at Amersham Hall School, Caversham, and at Marlborough Grammar School, and was early apprenticed to a surgeon on the staff of the Royal Berk

Born 25 November 1851 the second of the ten children of Robert Ward Shepherd, general manager of the Ottawa River Navigation Co, and his wife, * née* Delesderniers, who was of Swiss origin. He was born at Port Cavignal, afterwards named Como, a village about 38 miles from Montreal on the southern si

Born 11 October 1882, the third child and only son of Samuel Buckley, FRCS, consulting physician to the Clinical (now the Northern) Hospital for Diseases of Women and Children, Manchester, and his wife, Florence Woolley. He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, and took first-class h

The son of a Birmingham surgeon. He received his professional training at Queen's College, where he was afterwards Professor of Anatomy. He practised in Colmore Row, Birmingham, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon, and in 1863 became Surgeon, to the Queen's Hospital. Some years later he exchanged th

Born on June 13th, 1841, the son of Thomas Pickering Pick, merchant, of Liverpool. After going to the Royal Institution School, Liverpool, he entered St George's Hospital in 1857, at a time when the staff numbered such men as Caesar Hawkins, Prescott Hewett, the Lees, and George David Pollock; Timot

Born at Pau, France, on January 7th, 1850, the son of Drewry Ottley, MD, who wrote the life of John Hunter in Palmer's collected edition of his works (4 vols, 8vo, London, 1835). He was educated at Cheltenham College, which he entered in January, 1864, during the headmastership of Dr Barry. He gaine

Practised at Trinity House Lane, Hull, and was Surgeon to the Hull General Infirmary and to the Lying-in Charity. He was also Lecturer on Anatomy at the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire Medical School. Late in life he was living at Hessle, Yorkshire, where he died in or before 1860.

The son of William Parker, Medical Officer of Health for the Aston Union, who practised in Aston Road, Birmingham, where he was born. He was educated at Heathfield Road School, Handsworth, under the Rev Daniel Walton, and afterwards attended the medical and surgical practice of the Birmingham Genera

Born in London; studied at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was Dresser to John Flint South (qv), and took honours in anatomy at the 1st MB, but never graduated at the University of London. After qualifying he was appointed House Surgeon at the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, in 1854, when the Medica