Son of the well-known mineralogist Henry James Brooke; was born June 30th, 1804. He was educated at Chiswick under Dr Turner and at Rugby, where he entered in 1819. He matriculated from St John’s College, Cambridge, and graduated BA in 1827 as 23rd Wrangler. He completed his medical education at St

Entered King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1810; apprenticed to his uncle in Elgin in 1812, then became a clinical pupil at the Aberdeen Infirmary. He entered Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals in 1815 and studied anatomy and surgery under Joshua Brookes at the Blenheim Street School, and midwifery under Mer

Son of Thomas Bird, was born at Muswell Hill in 1827. Studied at Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, where he obtained a number of medals and certificates and became House Surgeon; was afterwards House Surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital; he studied finally in Paris. He gained the Jacksonian Prize in 1849 for

Born on December 4th, 1866, son of an employé at Woolwich Arsenal. Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he was House Surgeon and Clinical Assistant in the Orthopaedic Department. He entered the Indian Medical Service as Surgeon on July 28th, 1891, was promoted Major on July 28th, 1903, and L

Educated at Middlesex Hospital, and entered the Bengal Army as Acting Assistant Surgeon on December 9th, 1824. He retired in October, 1827. He saw active service in Burma, 1824-1825, was afterwards in the Portuguese Navy. He was in practice in London in 1871 and he died in or before 1878. The name i

Educated at University College. He was Resident Medical Officer of St Marylebone Infirmary, then Surgeon to the Morro Velho Hospital, Minas Geraes, Brazil. He was also at one time Surgeon to the British Naval Hospital, Valparaiso, and served in the Crimean War as 1st Class Civil Surgeon at the Barra

Was at one time in the HEICS and in the Government Emigration Service, where he was awarded a Gold Medal for his services. He was for ten years Surgeon Superintendent of HM’s General Infirmary and Lunatic Asylum, Cape of Good Hope. He was presented by the Royal Humane Society with their Silver Medal

Born at Le Sueur, Minnesota on 29 June 1861, the elder son of William Worrall Mayo and Louise Abigail Wright, his wife. The younger son Charles Horace Mayo was also an Honorary FRCS. For an account of W W Mayo, their father, see the life of C H Mayo, above. William J Mayo, was educated at the Ro

Aziz Shukri was a professor of surgery in Baghdad, Iraq. He graduated from Baghdad College of Medicine in 1946, at a time when that university was widely esteemed for its high standards. He was inspired by Lindsay Rogers to take up surgery, and went to London, completing posts at Hammersmith, Guy’s,

Educated at St Bartholomew’s, Guy’s, and St Thomas’s Hospitals. He was a Member of the Epidemiological Society, and practised at Billingborough, Folkingham, Lincolnshire, where he died in 1867, being succeeded by his son Thomas.

Educated at University College; he practised first at Louth, Lincolnshire, where he was Surgeon to the General Dispensary, and then at Lillington, Leamington, where he died at his residence, Vor Lodge, on June 30th, 1880. A William Blathwayt was a well-known politician in the time of William III.

Born at Warminster; educated at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and during a short period at St George’s Hospital. After qualifying he settled in practice in Warminster (Bleeck and Hinton), and at the time of his death was the leading local practitioner. He was for seventeen years a Poor Law Medical Of