Sir Andrew Watt Kay was regius professor of surgery at Glasgow and an archetypal Scottish academic surgeon. Known by surgical trainees worldwide through his book *A textbook of surgical physiology* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone, 1959), written with R Ainslie Jamieson, Kay stood alongside many

Paul Winchester Houghton was a general surgeon in Worcester, and served with distinction in the Second World War. He was born in west London into a naval family on 30 September 1911 and was educated at Whitgift School. Until his last days he could remember the hunger caused by rationing during the F

Born at Liverpool on April 7th, 1858, the son of William Collingwood, well known as a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours. Educated at Liverpool College, he matriculated at the University of London in the winter of 1875-6. He began to study for his profession in the School of Med

Studied at St Thomas's Hospital and then entered the Royal Navy. He was Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Naval Hospital, Cape of Good Hope, and to the Royal Marine Artillery, Eastney. He retired with the rank of Staff Surgeon on August 19th, 1870, and practised at Melksham, Wiltshire, where he was Sur

Educated at the Middlesex and St George's Hospitals. He joined the Bengal Army as Temporary Assistant Surgeon on July 14th, 1841, and served in the China War as Medical Officer to the transport Sylvia. He was afterwards District Surgeon to the East Indian Railway at Jumalpore, Bengal. He died at Woo

Studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He practised at Chichester, and after retiring died there in 1888.

Studied at St George's Hospital, and practised at 30 College Street, Chelsea, then at 20 Halsey Street, where he died on January 4th, 1866.

Born at Banbury, Oxfordshire, on June 4th, 1804, and was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was Anatomical Prosector to John Abernethy and Dresser to Sir William Lawrence. He was gazetted Hospital Assistant to the Forces in May, 1827; Assistant Surgeon to the Forces on June 12th, 1828;

Studied at St Thomas's Hospital, and practised, first at Bridport, Dorset, then moved before 1863 to London, to 40 York Place, Portman Square, and was Surgeon to the Western Annuity Society. His name was lost to the *Directory* after 1875.

Born in December, 1822; went to the Grammar School, Wem, Shropshire, was apprenticed to his father, then he studied at Edinburgh under Syme and at King's College Hospital, London. Both his father and grandfather, Edward Gwynn, junior and senior, were surgeons at Wem, and he joined his father and pra

After being Resident Medical Officer at the Stoke Newington Dispensary, practised at 269 Mare Street, Hackney, in partnership with Francis Toulmin (qv) and Frederick Toulmin, MRCS, under the names of Toulmin Brothers, and Toulmin and Hacon. He was Surgeon to the 1st (King's Own) Light Infantry Regim

Studied at the Birmingham Hospital and at University College Hospital, London, and was House Surgeon at the Wolverhampton Hospital. He practised successively at Dudley, at Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, at Oucham, Isle of Man, and at Biddulph, Congleton, Cheshire. He died in or before 1887.