Was a student at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he won many honours and prizes, including the Lawrence Scholarship and Gold Medal. He held for some years the post of House Surgeon at Tunbridge Wells Infirmary. In 1848 he became the Resident Apothecary at Westminster Hospital, combining in an eleme

Born in Jan, 1868, at Highbury, in the north of London, the son of James Barnard, engraver and designer in precious metals, and a great-nephew on his father’s side of Michael Faraday. After attending school in the neighbourhood he and his brother were sent three months before his sixteenth birthday

Apprenticed to Richard Cremer, of Chelmsford, before he entered Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals in the time of Astley Cooper and of Addison. First practised at Ingatestone, Essex, removed to Chelsea in 1820, practising for many years at 19 Manor Place, King's Road. There he was instrumental in found

Entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital as one of John Abernethy’s pupils. Among his contemporaries were F C Skey, Francis Kiernan, Thomas Wormald, and G L Roupell, the last named being one of his most intimate friends. After qualifying he joined the Hon East India Company’s Service and subsequently set u

Born at Bath, where his father had long been in general practice. His grandfather and youngest brother were also medical practitioners. He entered Charing Cross Hospital in 1849, attending also the adjacent Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, where he had the advantage of G J Guthrie’s (qv) teac

Born at Norwich on September 4th, 1817, second son of Philip Barnes, an architect and one of the founders of the Royal Botanic Society of London. His mother was Harriet Futter, daughter of a Norfolk squire. Sent to school at Bruges from 1826-1830 he became proficient in French; later he had as tuto

Educated at St George’s Hospital. Practised at Ross, Herefordshire, and was then House Surgeon to the Bath United Hospitals. Moving to 8 Cleveland Gardens, London, W, he was in practice there for many years, and was Physician-Accoucheur to the St George’s and St James’s Dispensaries. He was a Fellow

Educated at King’s College Hospital. Practised at Gloucester (5 Barton Street) and was Surgeon to the General Infirmary there, the Children’s Hospital, and the Magdalen Asylum. At some period between 1871 and 1875 he moved to Bath (Hanover House, Walcot, and then 12 Pierrepont Street), where he prac

Practised at Bath, where at one time he was Surgeon to the Bath West Dispensary, to the Abbey District, and to the Bath District of the Great Western Railway. He practised at 13 Pierrepont Street, and died there on May 7th, 1881.

Born in Tavistock Place, London, on Jan. 1st, 1811, the son of Daniel Curling, F.S.A., Secretary to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, and Elizabeth, daughter of William Blizard and sister of Sir William Blizard. He was educated at The Manor House, Chiswick, and was afterwards apprenticed t

Hamerton, George Albert (d.1920). MRCS July 23rd 1874; FRCS June 14th 1894; LSA 1873; LM 1875; LRCP Lond 1880; MD (Hons) Brussels 1878; DPH RCPS 1892. Studied at St Thomas's Hospital; was Resident Medical Officer at the Lambeth Infirmary; Medical Officer of the Inland Revenue Office, Somerset Hou

Born at Great Yarmouth on Jan. 11th, 1814, the eighth of seventeen children of Samuel Paget by Sarah Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Thomas Tolver, of Chester. Sir George Edward Paget (1809-1892), Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge, was a brother. The father was a brewer and a shipowner who se