Born in Cumberland. His father, having business relations with Ireland, decided to send his son to Dublin for his education. He therefore apprenticed him in August, 1810, to Abraham Colles, who described the injury to the lower end of the radius now known as 'Colles's fracture'. Harrison thus became

Entered University College Hospital in 1832; became House Surgeon and later Surgeon to the Hospital, also Surgeon to the Queen's Bench Prison. He assisted Samuel Cooper and Liston at operations, and was distinguished by the remarkable publications on surgical anatomy, both as regards description and

Born at Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, on May 12th, 1796, the twin son of the Rev Donald Martin, and was educated at the Royal Academy, Inverness. He remained a student at St George's Hospital and at the Windmill Street School of Medicine until 1817, when on September 5th, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon

Born in Dublin, the son of Richard Gore, of Lumville, King's County, and great-nephew of Major William Gore, of the famous 33rd Regiment. On his father's removing to Chester, Richard Thomas Gore was placed under a clergyman and received a good general education, including a knowledge of French, to w

After practising at Newcastle-upon-Tyne was appointed Surgeon to the Colony of Hong Kong, and arrived there in November, 1847. He died from abscess of the liver on October 13th, 1854. In those few years his service had come to be highly valued by the Local Government. He lived esteemed and died regr

The second son of Joseph Parker, the bookseller, of St Michael's, Oxford. He matriculated at Wadham College on December 8th, 1827, in which year he attended the lectures of Dr C G B Daubeny (1795-1867), took a pass degree in 1831, and is remarkable as being the first Oxford graduate among the Fellow

Was for nearly fourteen years Surgeon to the Salisbury General Infirmary, after which he practised as a surgeon at 12 Chester Street, Belgrave Square. In the fifties he removed to 2 Eaton Place. He died in 1881 or 1882. Publication: 'A Case of Asphyxia Cured by Tracheotomy' - *Med-Chir Trans,* 1837

Received his professional training at St George's Hospital, where he was entered as a twelve-months pupil to Sir Everard Home in October 1818. He practised as a surgeon at 52 Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, W where he was Senior Surgeon to the St Marylebone General Dispensary till about the year

Practised at 26 Watling Street, Canterbury, where he was Surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, and to the St Augustine County Prison. He died on May 3rd, 1861.

Born in Southwark on October 6th, 1793, the eldest son of Thomas Key by his first wife, Margaret Barry. His father was a general practitioner, first in the Borough and afterwards in Fenchurch Street, who took the degree of MD late in life, and carried on a lucrative obstetric practice in Lombard Str

The only son of Thomas Trew. He was Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital, and practised as a surgeon at 19 Woburn Place, Russell Square, WC, and then at Great Marlow, Bucks. His death occurred at his father's residence at St Peter's, Thanet, on February 24th, 1851.

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and later held various posts - Surgeon to the Foundling Hospital and to St Marylebone Infirmary; Secretary to the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society; and Medical Inspector of Prisons. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He lived at 12 Westbourne Str