The son of James Long, a Lancashire merchant. He was probably born at Poulton, and was apprenticed to Mr Halton, a Surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. To the apprenticeship system Long used often to attribute that thorough grasp of practical detail in medicine and surgery on which his success

Was Surgeon to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Bloomsbury Square, and to the Artists' Benevolent Fund. He was a thoroughly good surgeon, a most sincere and warm-hearted friend, and a strictly honourable and upright man, of high independent spirit. To the patients of the hospital he was extremely kin

The eldest surving son of Hall Overend, who practised in Sheffield. He was born in May, 1806, and was educated at the Sheffield Grammar School. He then entered the united hospitals of Guy's and St Thomas's and was afterwards sent to Edinburgh. A prospectus of a School of Anatomy and Surgery was issu

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 on July 1st, 1792, the second son of Daniel Gosset, of Langhedge Hall, Tanner's End, Edmonton. He was sent to school at Broxbourne, Herts, and was entered on HMS *Curlew*, commanded by Captain Thomas Young, in November, 1806. He served under Young until July, 1807, when he was transferred to th

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

The son of an Irish country surgeon who had been a pupil of John Abernethy. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in October, 1816, and was for twenty years Surgeon to the Finsbury Dispensary, and temporarily to the Fever Hospital. He was also Consulting Surgeon to St Anne's Society Schools and to th

The son of Charles Lestourgeon and was born at Edmonton, Middlesex. He was educated at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and at the age of 16 was admitted a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, on May 21st, 1824. He was elected a scholar of the College in 1827, and graduated BA as 15th Wrangler in 1828,

The fourth son of John Webb, of Woodland Hill, Staffordshire, and afterwards of Dublin, by his wife, a daughter of Thomas Heath. He was born in Dublin on October 25th, 1772, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon March 17th, 1794; was promoted Regimental Surgeon on July 15th, 1795; Surgeon to the Force

There were four Teales, surgeons, connected with Leeds - Thomas Pridgin Teale, senr, his father, and his two sons, Thomas Pridgin Teale, junr (qv), and John William Teale (qv). Thomas Pridgin Teale, senr, was born on January 1st, 1801, in Leeds, where his father had a large practice, and was educat

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