Surgeon Vice Admiral Eric Blackburn Bradbury RN was the medical director general of the Royal Naval Medical Service from 1969 to 1972, a period when many changes were being made in the services. He was born on 2 March 1911, the son of A B Bradbury of Maze, County Antrim. His education was at the Roy

Patrick Kevin Coakley was born on 19 December 1928 at Bantry, County Cork, Eire. He attended Blackrock College, Dublin, and studied medicine at the University of Cork, qualifying in 1952. After the surgical rotation he passed the FRCS in Ireland. In 1955 he was appointed to a short service commiss

Martin Corry was born on 23 May 1937 in Oxford, the son of D C Corry, a distinguished surgeon in that city and a Fellow of the College. It seems to have been assumed from early on that he would follow his father's profession and, after schooling at the Dragon in Oxford and at Rugby, he went up to Qu

Graham Harris was a consultant surgeon at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary with a particular interest and expertise in surgery of the breast. He was born in Swindon village, Gloucestershire, on 5 June 1928, the son of Walter Albert Harris and Sarah Anne née Pitman. He was educated at Wycliffe College be

Ron Rhind was a general surgeon with an interest in urology based in Hartlepool. He was born in Calcutta on 7 July 1943, where his father, James Albert Rhind, was a general surgeon. His mother was Dorothy Cornelia née Jones. From Sedbergh School Ron went to Leeds to study medicine and did house jobs

Received his professional training at St George’s Hospital. He practised at Salisbury, where he was Surgeon to the Infirmary from 1804-1847. He died at Salisbury on April 6th, 1848. Another Henry Coates seems to have been entered as six-months’ pupil to Benjamin Brodie at St George’s in August, 18

The eldest son of Stephen Hammick, surgeon and Alderman of Plymouth, and Elizabeth Margaret, daughter of John Love, Surgeon of Plymouth Dockyard. He studied under his father at the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, in 1792, and in 1793 was appointed Assistant Surgeon there. In 1799, after further stud

Joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Sept 18th, 1799, being promoted to Surgeon on March 5th, 1813, and to Superintending Surgeon on June 24th, 1826. He became a member of the Calcutta Medical Board on July 23rd, 1833, and President on Feb 25th, 1834. He saw active service in the Third Mar

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,

Practised in Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square, London, W. He died in 1850. Publication: - “Case of a Foetus found in the Abdomen of a Boy.” – *Med.-Chir. Trans.*, 1809, 3 plates. A case of an included twin.

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