James Brown was born in 1913 and educated at Bishops Stortford. In 1930 he entered Guy's Hospital and for two years studied dentistry before changing to medicine. After qualification in 1936 he held various house appointments at Guy's before obtaining the Fellowship in 1938. Brown was then appointed

Born at Le Sueur, Minnesota on 29 June 1861, the elder son of William Worrall Mayo and Louise Abigail Wright, his wife. The younger son Charles Horace Mayo was also an Honorary FRCS. For an account of W W Mayo, their father, see the life of C H Mayo, above. William J Mayo, was educated at the Ro

Born at Chesham, Buckinghamshire, on July 3rd, 1809, the eldest son of Henry Nathaniel Rumsey, a surgeon, by his wife, Elizabeth Frances Catherine, second daughter of Sir Robert Murray, Bart, whom he had married late in life. His grandfather, the youngest son of an old Welsh family, had settled and

Alan Pollock was a consultant surgeon at Scarborough Hospital, Yorkshire. He was born on 10 September 1921 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and went to school and University in Cape Town, where he graduated in medicine in 1943, winning a medal in surgery along the way. After house appointments he join

Prabhakar Shankar Phatak, known as 'Prabhu', was a consultant general surgeon at the Whittington Hospital. He was born in Pusad, Maharashtra, India, on 20 March 1936, the son of Shankar Ganesh Phatak, a lawyer, and Uma Phatak née Kelkar, a housewife. His mother's father was a doctor. He attended the

Rodney John Hall was a surgeon in Adelaide, South Australia. He was born on 7 April 1928 at Waikerie, South Australia, and studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1957. He was a resident medical officer at the Bendigo and Northern District Bone Hospital from 1957 to 1958. He

Educated at Guy's Hospital. He practised at 3 East Ascent, St Leonards-on-Sea, and at the time of his death was Medical Referee to the Industrial and General Assurance Society. He died on June 20th, 1876. Publications: "Case of Placenta Praevia, with Twins." - *Lancet*, 1846, ii, 124. "Case of Spon

Born on January 19th, 1791, and received his professional training at the University of Edinburgh. He became Hospital Assistant to the Forces on May 12th, 1815, and was gazetted Staff Assistant Surgeon on November 9th. On September 18th, 1835, he was promoted to Surgeon of the 36th Regiment of Foot,

Born at Stockton-on-Tees, the third son of George Lockwood, a shipbuilder. He was educated at the Stockton Grammar School and at Bramham School. After leaving school he spent a short time with a well-known firm of surgeons in Stockton (Richardson & Tarleton), and thus was enabled at an early age to

Educated at the University, Dunedin (NZ), where his student career was exceptionally brilliant. In 1898, the year of his graduation, he held a house appointment in the Dunedin Hospital, and then came to England, where he qualified. Returning to New Zealand after obtaining the Fellowship, he was for

Was a Surgeon in the Royal Navy and retired with the rank of Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets. His death occurred in 1898.

The son of James Long, a Lancashire merchant. He was probably born at Poulton, and was apprenticed to Mr Halton, a Surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. To the apprenticeship system Long used often to attribute that thorough grasp of practical detail in medicine and surgery on which his success