Born on October 2nd, 1836, in the house in Preston (27 Winckley Square) where his father had practised and where he himself died. His father was Alderman Robert Brown (1801-1858), (qv), for thirty-five years a leading Preston practitioner. Robert Charles Brown was educated at Preston Grammar School

The grandson of William Henchman Crowfoot (often cited as Henchman Crowfoot) (qv), and the elder son of William Edward Crowfoot (qv). The Crowfoots of Beccles were well known as medical men in East Anglia for more than a century, and each generation followed worthily in the footsteps of its fathers.

The eldest son of George K Cowell, an Ipswich surgeon; served as an apprentice to a practitioner in Birmingham; entered as a student at St George's Hospital, where he held minor and residential appointments under Henry Gray (qv), the anatomist, Prescott Hewett (qv), and Timothy Holmes (qv). Shortly

Received his professional training at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised at West Hartlepool, where he was Medical Officer of Health and Town Improvement Commissioner. He lived in Church Street, and after his retirement was Hon Local Secretary and Treasurer of the Medical Benevolent College, Eps

Born in Taunton, the son of Henry Liddon of that town, which is the home of the Liddon family. He was educated at Fallands under Mr G Rogers, and was the friend and fellow-pupil of the famous General Gordon. He was afterwards at King's College School, London - of which his cousin, Dean Liddon, had b

Studied at the Webb Street School and at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He practised at Bexley Heath, and then at Belvedere, Kent, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary and Assistant Surgeon to the 12th Kent Volunteers. At one time he was President of the West Kent Natural History Society, and al