Born 23 August 1843 the son of Richard Smart Jackson, surgeon, and Anne Tapson Channon, his wife. He was educated at Portland Grammar School, Plymouth, and at University College, London, where he gained the Fellowes gold medal in 1864. He served as house surgeon to the Bolton Infirmary and was senio

Born at Edinburgh on Nov 1st, 1842, the son of Peter S Banks, Writer to the Signet. He received his early education at Edinburgh Academy and passed from there to the University of Edinburgh. Graduated MD with honours, and won the Gold Medal for his thesis on the Wolffian bodies in 1864. Acted for a

William Edmund Image, born in 1807, of French Huguenot extraction, was apprenticed to John Greene Crosse of Norwich, then studied at Guy's Hospital and in Paris, where he graduated Bachelier ès Lettres. At the outbreak of the Revolution in 1830 he returned and settled in practice at Bury St Edmunds,

Born at Dorchester on Aug 12th, 1787. He was educated at Lymington, Hants, was then placed under a well-known surgeon at Salisbury, and in 1807 entered St Thomas’s Hospital, where, under the tuition of Sir Astley Cooper and Cline, he soon acquired a superior knowledge of anatomy and surgery. Sir Ast

William Hey II was the second son of William Hey I (1736-1819); he followed his father as a surgeon at Leeds, and, like him, was Surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary. He died at Leeds, after being twice Mayor, on March 13th, 1844. He was succeeded in turn by his son William Hey III (qv). Publication:- *T

Born on 14 February 1889, Griffith Evans was educated at Ruthin School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained second-class honours in the final school of Natural Sciences (physiology), and had his medical training at St George's Hospital, London. He joined the RAMC as a student on the outb

Harold Park was horn on 26 July 1909 at Preston, Lancashire, and studied medicine in Edinburgh, qualifying in 1932. His early appointments included the posts of casualty officer at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and resident medical officer at St Paul's Hospital for Genito-Urinary Diseases. In 1938

Educated in London and Paris. Was at one time Surgeon to the Somerset Militia and Coroner for North Somerset. He was Mayor of Bath in 1859-1860, and at the time of his death was JP for Bath and Surgeon to the St Catherine’s Hospital and Bath Eye and Ear Infirmary, and also Hon Consulting Physician t

Received his professional training as apprentice to Mr Samuel Partridge, whose partner he afterwards became, and at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where Edward Stanley (qv) offered him a Demonstratorship of Anatomy. After qualifying he was elected one of the Surgeons of the Eye Infirmary, Birmingham, a

Belonged to a family prominent through several generations at East Stonehouse between Plymouth and Devonport, where for many years his father was in practice. He, too, practised at East Stonehouse for some twenty years until 1859. From 1856 he was in partnership with Christopher Bulteel, who was Sur

Born at Crickhowell, Brecon, the eldest of ten children; his father emigrated to Canada after practising for many years in Breconshire. The family of Bird had belonged to Herefordshire from Norman times, and the Gwynnes were an old Welsh family belonging to Cwnhordy. G G Bird was apprenticed to his

Born at Highgate on May 26th, 1843; educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where for the unusual period of two years he was House Surgeon to Sir James Paget (qv), to whom he afterwards acted as private assistant, whilst serving for another period of two years as chloroformist to the hospital. He en