Born on July 16th, 1785, the son of William Collier and Elizabeth his wife. He lost his father in early youth and was started in life by his elder brother. He entered on his career on September 25th, 1805, as a Medical Cadet and Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment, and w

Born at Hyde, near Manchester, and was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and at Owens College. He was not intended originally for medicine and did not begin his medical studies until 1876. He did brilliantly at Owens College, and at the University of London he gained honours in physiology an

Studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and practised all his life at Ramsden Street, Huddersfield, latterly in partnership with his son, Frederick Greenwood, MRCS. He was Surgeon to Huddersfield Infirmary and Surgeon under the Factory Act. He died at Huddersfield on December 6th, 1862.

Practised at 52 John Street, Sunderland, and died on April 14th, 1861.

The son of a cheesemonger in the Bullstake Haymarket at Sheffield; was apprenticed to William Staniforth, sent, one of the first three Surgeons elected to the Sheffield General Infirmary when it was opened in 1797. Staniforth was not only a surgeon with a local reputation as an oculist, but he was t

Studied at University College Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. He practised in South London: at 5 Union Terrace, Peckham; 20 Warwick Place, Peckham Rye, where about 1855 he was in partnership with Thomas Morris, MD; at Queen's Road, Peckham; at Talfourd House, Camberwell, where in 1875 he had a

Born in Wrexham, the son of Thomas Griffith, who for many years practised as a surgeon in the town. He was educated at the local Grammar School, and after serving an apprenticeship to his father, received his professional training at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, where he took Sir Astley Cooper's

Studied at the Exeter and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. Entering the Navy, he served on HMS *Hydra* and HMS *Vesuvius* on West India Stations during 1860-1864. During the yellow fever epidemic in 1864 he was attached to the Royal Naval Hospital, Bermuda. From 1865-1867 he was Assistant Surgeon at Gree

Born at Wolverley Hall, Shropshire, on November 21st, 1810; he was the fourth son of John Groom, and came of a very old Salop family formerly of Hardwicke Grange, the residence of the famous Lord Hill, one of Wellington's Generals, who died there. Thomas Groom was apprenticed to Dr Gwynne, of Wem,

The son of Judge Griffith of the County Court, Wolverhampton Circuit, previously Attorney-General, Cape Colony. He entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1882, and, after gaining a scholarship, graduated with a first class in the Classical Tripos in 1885. He then studied at St Thomas's Hospital, where

John Neophyton was not only a lifelong family friend but he was my mentor. 'Dr John Neo', as he was affectionately called, was a university colleague and one of the best and closest friends of my father Andrew, so I have known John and his family all my life. My earliest memory was when I was a you

Okon Osung was a surgeon at Neath General Hospital in Wales. He had previously worked at the Morriston Hospital in Swansea. Of Nigerian origin he was found dead in his flat in Neath on 9 July 2008. He was 65 years old and was survived by three children from whom he was estranged.