The younger son of Robert Druitt, senr, surgeon, of Wimborne Minster, Dorset, and of Jane, daughter of Dr Mayo, Head Master of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Wimborne, and brother of Robert Druitt (qv). He was educated at Wimborne Grammar School and next became a pupil of his uncle, Charles Mayo

Born at Guildford on September 21st, 1817, and was educated at the local Grammar School. He entered as a student at University College Hospital, where he was the contemporary of Erichsen, Richard Quain, and Marshall, and there became House Surgeon to Liston. He pursued his medical studies still furt

Educated at St George's Hospital and the Grosvenor Place School. At the hospital he was Senior Prizeman in Anatomy. He settled in general practice at Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, and remained there throughout his life, being at first Medical Officer of the Biggleswade Union, and then Medical Officer a

Studied at Guy's Hospital and practised for about forty years at Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, where he was Surgeon to the Infirmary and Dispensary. He was a Certifying Factory Surgeon who became deeply concerned with the terribly long hours worked by children and young people in the cotton mills. On

Educated at Guy's Hospital. He practised at Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire, and afterwards for many years at Godalming, Surrey, where he was Surgeon to the Foresters' Society and to the South-Western Railway Company. He died in retirement at 117 Holland Road, W, on July 16th, 1902.

Born at Sudbury, in Suffolk, on July 18th, 1820, the third son of William Wood Humphry, barrister-at-law and distributor of stamps for the county of Suffolk. One of his brothers became a barrister; the second, the Rev W G Humphry, was for many years Vicar of St Martin's-in-the-Fields. G M Humphry wa

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