Born in London on August 23rd, 1831, the second son of William Lawson, of the firm of Trower, Trower & Lawson, wine merchants of the City of London, by his wife, Anne Norton. After being educated at the Blackheath Proprietary School he entered King's College in 1848 and served for a year as House Su

Born 12 July 1869 at Romford, Essex, the fourth child and third son of Octavius George Daldy, coal and timber merchant, and his wife, *née* Mantell. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, and at Guy's Hospital, and was awarded a gold medal at the London University MB BS examination. Daldy was in

Educated at the Newcastle Medical School (University of Durham) and Guy's Hospital, he joined the resident staff of the Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. He went back to Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1901 as assistant surgeon to the Northumberland and Durham Eye Infirmary, but returned to Brighton in 1907 as

The eldest son of Edward Henderson, MD, of Shanghai, he was born in China 18 February 1870, and was educated at Cheltenham College, where he gained a junior classical scholarship in 1882. Two years later he entered Harrow School, when Dr Butler was head master, and remained there until 1887. He then

Vincent Nesfield was born in India on 12 October 1879, the son of John Collinson Nesfield, Director of Education in India, and Ellen Blumhardt, a missionary who had been through the siege of Lucknow during the Mutiny. He entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1897 and completed a successful ca

The second of the four sons of Sir John Fife (qv), who was the leading operator in the North of England, and a founder of the Newcastle College of Medicine. His mother was a Miss Bainbridge, and his paternal grandfather was a Scottish medical man who settled in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the n

Born in London in 1847, and educated at St Olave's Grammar School, Southwark, and at King's College, Strand, where he obtained a Warneford Scholarship. After passing through his medical training he was appointed House Physician to the Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich in 1872. In 1873 he turned his att

Born in Queen Street, Glasgow, on April 29th, 1791, the son of James Mackenzie, a muslin manufacturer (d1800). He was educated in the Glasgow Grammar School and University, and began to study divinity with the intention of becoming a minister of the Church of Scotland. In 1810 he turned to medicine,

Born on October 14th, 1832, the son of Daniel Macnamara, surgeon, of Uxbridge, a brother, George Macnamara, succeeding his father in the practice. Charles Macnamara in late years travelled in Co Clare and traced the origin of his Sept with full topographical detail in his *Story of an Irish Sept* (1

Studied and graduated at the University of Edinburgh, where he was House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary and Demonstrator of Anatomy. Coming to London he took the MRCS and FRCS examinations together, and began practice as a consulting surgeon at 6 Harley Street. He was first appointed Assistant Surge

Born at Langford, Co Tyrone, in 1866, the third son of the Rev Canon Stack, and was educated at Haileybury School, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and then at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was Brackenbury Medical Scholar. He was known as a hard-working student, with a mechanical bent, and good

Born at Gawcott, Buckinghamshire, on July 14th, 1855, the second son of the Rev T C Whitehead, Head Master of Christ's College, Finchley. He studied at Charing Cross Hospital, and, becoming FRCS, was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital in 1881. He was also Assistant Surgeon to the