The younger son of Robert Druitt, senr, surgeon, of Wimborne Minster, Dorset, and of Jane, daughter of Dr Mayo, Head Master of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Wimborne, and brother of Robert Druitt (qv). He was educated at Wimborne Grammar School and next became a pupil of his uncle, Charles Mayo

Educated at the London Hospital. Practised at Worthing, where he was Medical Officer to the Infirmary and did much to bring the place into repute as a health resort. He was a Fellow of the British Meteorological Society. He lived at 18 The Steyne, Worthing, and died there on March 24th, 1868. Publi

Educated at Guy's Hospital, and was a successful operating surgeon at the Islington Dispensary. He also lectured on surgery at the Hunterian School of Medicine. A few years before his death he was practising in London as a consultant when his health gave way, and he retired to Bath, but found his co

The eldest son of Thomas Wakley (1795-1862), the founder of the *Lancet*; born in London on March 21st, 1821, his mother being a daughter of Joseph Goodchild, a merchant in Tooley Street. It was intended that he should take Orders, and with that view he was privately educated by the Rev James Bassne

Studied at University College Hospital and in Paris. He then settled in practice at Southampton and was appointed a Sanitary Surveyor to the Board of Trade, Medical Superintendent of Quarantine to the Royal Mail and Union Steamer Lines, and Medical Inspector of Emigrants and Recruits. He became Pres

The son of the Rev John Pye Smith, DD, FRS, a well-known Sheffield Nonconformist minister and geologist; the son inherited his father's industry, love of knowledge, and religious principles. Pye Smith went to Mill Hill School and was then articled to Ashwell, a City practitioner; he next studied

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 at 39 College Green, Bristol, on July 16th, 1818, the second son of James Cowles Prichard, FRS, a physician, famous as the author of *The Natural History of Man*. His mother was the daughter of Dr Estlin, Unitarian Minister and Co-Pastor at Lewin's Mead Chapel, a scholar and friend of Coleridge