Born on July 18th, 1776, the eldest son of the Rev Robert Pitcairn, of Brasenose College, Oxford, Vicar of English Combe, Somerset, and Incumbent of Spring Chapel, London. The family originated in Pitcairn, Fifeshire, and to it belonged the two well-known physicians – William Pitcairn, MD (1711-1791

Born at Coventry on March 29th, 1780; was educated at King Edward’s Grammar School. He was then apprenticed to George Freer, of Birmingham, the author of *Aneurysm and some Diseases of the Arterial System* (1807), who evidently inspired his pupils with higher aims that the mere routine of practice,

Born on Sept 9th, 1780, at Kessingland, a village on the Suffolk coast, where his father occupied a large farm. His mother, who was a daughter of the Rev J Henchman, died while he was an infant, and he was placed in charge of his uncle by marriage, the Rev W Clubbe, Vicar of Brandeston. Mr Clubbe, a

At one time was busily engaged in practice in Liverpool, but for the last thirty years of his life lived in Wray Castle, near Ambleside, on Windermere, where he was long gratefully remembered for the ready help he was always willing to give to the poor of the district when in search of sympathy and

In 1843 was a Fellow of the University of London and a Member of the Senate. He was one of the 300 original Fellows, for officials of other institutions, including the University of London, were thus honoured by the Royal College of Surgeons. At one time he was a member of the Court of Examiners of

Born on Aug 1st, 1778, and entered the service of the HEIC. He was appointed Regimental Mate to the 89th Foot on April 1st, 1797, and a month later, May 1st, became Assistant Surgeon to the same regiment. He was transferred to the 5th Dragoon Guards on Aug 10th, 1799, and was gazetted Surgeon to the

Born at Wimborne, Dorset, the son of a clergyman. Entering the Navy at an early age, he found himself not sufficiently robust to continue in that service. Accordingly he took to medicine and was educated in the schools of Great Windmill Street and St George's Hospital. He was gazetted Assistant Surg

Practised at Derby and was Surgeon to the Infirmary. He died in 1870 or 1871. His portrait is in the Fellows’ Album.

The second son of William Dalrymple (1772-1847), who was Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (*Dict. Nat. Biog.*), and brother of John Dalrymple (qv) and Donald Dalrymple (qv), who were also Fellows of the College. Archibald practised in partnership with his younger brother, Donald, the for

Son of a City merchant, Le Gros Clark was born in Mincing Lane and was apprenticed to Benjamin Travers at St Thomas's Hospital two years after the separation of the Borough Hospitals. He won the Cheselden Medal in 1830, and was for a time Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at the University of Dublin

Clark's parentage is unknown, but he appears to have settled in Bristol as soon as he was qualified, perhaps as Surgeon-Apothecary at the Bristol Infirmary. The first notice of him is in 1826, when he put a notice in the local papers that his 'Theatre of Anatomy' would be opened immediately. It soon

Son of the Rev John Cleoburey and Margaretta his wife, was baptized at St Helen's Church, Abingdon, on Aug 17th, 1793. He was educated at Abingdon School, for he recited there twice on Speech Day, 1805. He was apprenticed to Mr Short, one of the surgeons of the Bedford Infirmary, and completed his m