Born at Bow, Middlesex, on October 13th, 1804, the son of the Rev William French, Rector of Vange, Essex. He received his early education at Christ's Hospital and was then apprenticed to Mr Morrell, a well-known medical practitioner at Worthing. Later he was entered as a student at Guy's Hospital, w

Studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and practised at 41 York Street, Cheetham Road, Manchester. He died in retirement at Clough House, Sydenham, London, SE, on June 19th, 1880.

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

Practised at Waltham, Grimsby, where he was Medical Officer to the Waltham District of the Caistor Union and to the Tetney District of the Louth Union. Latterly he practised at Louth, where he died on September 16th, 1876.

Richard Hey, Surgeon to the York County Hospital and to the Institute for the Blind, lectured on Surgery at the York School of Medicine and was Surgeon to the Female Penitentiary. He lived at Minsteryard, York, and died on September 1st, 1860, whilst visiting Ellesborough Rectory, Buckinghamshire.

The eldest surving son of Hall Overend, who practised in Sheffield. He was born in May, 1806, and was educated at the Sheffield Grammar School. He then entered the united hospitals of Guy's and St Thomas's and was afterwards sent to Edinburgh. A prospectus of a School of Anatomy and Surgery was issu