Leslie Brian Fleming was a reader in surgery at the University of Newcastle and a consultant surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. He studied medicine in Newcastle and, after qualifying, specialised in surgery, becoming a senior registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. He spent a y

Hanns-Martin Goldberg was a consultant surgeon in Manchester. He was born in Sohrau, Germany, on 14 June 1913, and educated in Berlin and Heidelberg, where he received the early part of his medical training. With the coming of Hitler, he went to London where, thanks to University College, he was abl

David Crosby was a consultant general surgeon at the University Hospital of Wales. He was born in Cardiff on 12 November 1930, the son of William Crosby, a salesman who had served as a quartermaster in the RAMC during the First World War, and his wife, Elsie. He was educated at Court Road Primary Sc

Practised at Kirkby Stephen, and then at Blackburn, where he died at his residence, 45 King Street, on March 26th, 1869.

Born at Gosport; educated in London and Paris. He practised at 16 Pall Mall, SW, migrated to America in 1847, and was immediately appointed Professor of Special, General, and Surgical Anatomy in the University at St Louis. Two years later he took part in the gold rush to California and settled at Sa

Educated at Guy’s Hospital. He was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society and practised at Birmingham, where he was at one time Surgeon to the Industrial School; to the Midland Counties Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary for Diseases of Women and Children; the Saltley Reformatory; and the Midland Countie

Educated at Westminster Hospital. He joined the Army as Staff Assistant Surgeon on October 17th, 1834; was transferred to the 67th Foot on March 13th, 1835; to the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment on Oct 13th, 1843; and was promoted to Staff Surgeon (2nd Class) on December 19th, 1845. He was placed in

Second son of James Blakeway, MRCVS, of Stourbridge, Worcestershire. Educated at Stourbridge; entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1903, where he won the Harvey Prize for Practical Physiology, the Brackenbury Scholarship in Surgery, the Willett Medal in Operative Surgery, the Walsham Prize for Surgi

The son of the Rev John Wingfield, of Shrewsbury. He was educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, before proceeding to India as Resident Assistant Surgeon to the General Hospital, Calcutta. He resigned the office on account of ill health after serving for two years. He then

Joined the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards as Assistant Surgeon on Aug 10th, 1809, and resigned with the rank of Surgeon before March 28th, 1811. He settled in practice at 74 Grand Parade, Brighton, and was Surgeon Extraordinary to William IV. He was one of the first three Surgeons of the Sussex County

Born at Pulborough, Sussex, on Nov 3rd, 1779, the eldest child of Peter Patrick Martin, who had migrated from Edinburgh whilst the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 was still fresh in the popular recollection and settled in Pulborough as a general practitioner. A clever and well-informed man, he advocated

Was at one time Surgeon to the Bath United Hospital. He died at his residence, 2 Circus, Bath, in the year 1860.