The son of a Birmingham surgeon. He received his professional training at Queen's College, where he was afterwards Professor of Anatomy. He practised in Colmore Row, Birmingham, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon, and in 1863 became Surgeon, to the Queen's Hospital. Some years later he exchanged th

Born on June 13th, 1841, the son of Thomas Pickering Pick, merchant, of Liverpool. After going to the Royal Institution School, Liverpool, he entered St George's Hospital in 1857, at a time when the staff numbered such men as Caesar Hawkins, Prescott Hewett, the Lees, and George David Pollock; Timot

Educated at King's College, London, of which he was an Associate. He entered the Indian Medical Service, and was at one time Professor of Anatomy at the Medical College, Calcutta, and Surgeon to the Medical College Hospital. He retired with the rank of Deputy Surgeon General, and practised at 32 Bas

The son of William Parker, Medical Officer of Health for the Aston Union, who practised in Aston Road, Birmingham, where he was born. He was educated at Heathfield Road School, Handsworth, under the Rev Daniel Walton, and afterwards attended the medical and surgical practice of the Birmingham Genera

Born at Royston, Herts, in 1825, the eldest son of William Nunn, MRCS, who practised in Royston for many years. William Nunn's father, Thomas Nunn, was a surgeon in the Navy, and the wife of this Naval surgeon was a descendant of Sir Edmond Butts, Physician to Henry VIII. Both the father and mother

Born in Salisbury, an elder brother of George Roberts Tatum (qv), and there passed his boyhood and received his early education, after which he became a student at St George's Hospital. As there was at that time no medical school in connection with the Hospital, young Tatum, like his teacher and fri

Born 14 June 1867 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the second son and third child of Henry Parker, manager of the Elswick lead works, Newcastle, and Mary Phillips, his wife. On 5 October 1908 he took the extra name of Dodds, and after that date was known as Dodds-Parker. He was educated privately until he en

Educated at Queen's College, Birmingham, where he was afterwards Hon Pathologist, Demonstrator of Anatomy, and Professor of Anatomy. He was at one time Resident Medical Officer of the Bradford Infirmary and Dispensary, but from about the year 1866 he practised in Bristol Road, and latterly at 56 New

Edward Francis Shanahan studied medicine at the National University of Ireland where he qualified MB BCh BAO in 1944 with first place and first class honours and won the McArdle Medal. He was an associate member of the International Society of Surgeons. He became lecturer in anatomy at University Co

John Pegington was born at Pontypool, Gwent, on 10 September 1934, the only child of Arthur John Pegington, a building contractor, and Edith May, née Pearce, the daughter of a cobbler. He recalled growing up surrounded by coal mining and music and, after education at Pentnewynydd Primary School and

Alwynne Rowlands was born in Launceston, Tasmania on 19 July 1905 and after attending the Launceston Church of England Grammer School he entered Melbourne University from which he graduated MB, BS in 1930. After resident posts at the Alfred Hospital he came to England where he was resident surgical

Douglas Harold Barnbrook, known as 'Barney', was a consultant general surgeon and professor of anatomy at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He studied medicine at Birmingham University, gaining his MRCS LRCP in 1946. He passed his FRCS in 1951 and in the same year emigrated to H