Born in Ireland on October 2nd, 1800. His father was a Member of the London College of Surgeons, and Francis was the eldest of his four children. His parents came to live in England, and he was sent at an early age to the Roman Catholic College at Ware, Hertfordshire, where he laid the foundations o

Born in the Tower of London, where his father was an Ordnance Official. He was educated at the Charterhouse from 1809-1813, where he acquired a life-long taste for the Classics. He was articled to his uncle, John Welbank, practising in Chancery Lane, one of the old class of surgeons who dispensed th

Born on September 18th, 1811, at Gibraltar, where his father, a military officer, was stationed. He used to say that for recurring fits when a younger man he had been bled from the arm twenty-five times in the course of a year, besides having some four dozen leeches applied, and had yet continued st

Was apprenticed to Mr Sawrey, Bloomsbury Square; studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital in the time of Abernethy and Lawrence, and afterwards in Paris. He practised in Southampton Row, Russell Square, and was an ardent phrenologist, collecting casts of living and dead celebrities, himself convinced of

Was born at Shepton Mallet, in Somersetshire, in August, 1800, and received his elementary education under Mr Rogers, of Dursley, and Mr Mules, of Ilminster. He was apprenticed for five years to Richard Smith, Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1796-1843, for a fee of two hundred guineas. H

Was, it would seem, engaged in the extramural teaching of surgery at Aberdeen in 1838 when he published *A Lecture on the Nature and Cultivation of the Medical Profession*, intended as a guide to students, which was delivered at the school, Flour Mill Lane, Aberdeen, in 1838. He also published *Firs

After practising at Newcastle-upon-Tyne was appointed Surgeon to the Colony of Hong Kong, and arrived there in November, 1847. He died from abscess of the liver on October 13th, 1854. In those few years his service had come to be highly valued by the Local Government. He lived esteemed and died regr

Born in Dublin, the son of Richard Gore, of Lumville, King's County, and great-nephew of Major William Gore, of the famous 33rd Regiment. On his father's removing to Chester, Richard Thomas Gore was placed under a clergyman and received a good general education, including a knowledge of French, to w

Born at Ormskirk in Lancashire, the eldest son of John Mawdsley, Attorney-at-Law of that town. He practised at 9 Hanover Square, London, W, and died there unmarried on October 7th, 1869, leaving by will some £60,000.

Born in November, 1806, the only son of Henry Jackson, a distinguished surgeon of Sheffield; he was himself well educated and followed his father as a prominent surgeon in large practice in Sheffield. He was a pupil of William Staniforth, junr, in 1825, and was elected Surgeon to the Sheffield Gener

Studied in Dublin, Edinburgh, and London. He was at first Assistant to the Professor of Anatomy in the University of Dublin, then Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Lecturer on Surgery. He died at 7 Berkeley Square, Bristol, on October 31st, 1878.

Practised at St. Andrew's, Norwich. He was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1828, when there were three candidates and 429 Governors attended to vote. Two years later he became Surgeon on the death of Henry Carter, and resigned in 1857, when he was elected Consulting