Born in Fermoy, Co. Cork, in July, 1800, the third son of Richard Quain, of Ratheahy, Co. Cork, by his first wife - a Miss Jones. Jones Quain (1796-1865), the anatomist, was his full brother, and Sir John Richard Quain (1816-1876), Judge of the Queen's Bench, was his half-brother. Sir Richard Quain,

The son of Henry Swan, Surgeon to the County Hospital at Lincoln, where his ancestors had been doctors for several generations. He was apprenticed to his father, and was sent to the United Borough Hospitals in 1810. He became a pupil of Henry Cline the younger, and gained the warm friendship of Astl

Born at Trumisgary Manse in the island of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, on July 23rd, 1840, the eldest son of the Rev Norman Macleod, who in the disruption of 1843 on the question of patronage seceded from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and remained in North Uist as a 'Free Church Minister'. The

Leslie Le Quesne was professor of surgery at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born in Ashburton, Devon, on 24 August 1919. His father, Charles Thomas Le Quesne, was a prominent barrister, originally from Jersey; his mother, Florence Elizabeth Eileen Pearce Gould, was the granddaughter of Sir A

Born at Dukafalu, an ancient manor in the county of Saros, North-West Hungary, on June 22nd, 1825, and came of an old and notable family of nobles. He received his early education at the Lutheran College at Eperjes. His father was Francis de Duka, a country squire, his mother Johanna, daughter of Fr

Born at Stamford Hill on Jan 10th, 1797, the second son of William Morgan, the noted Actuary to the Equitable Life Assurance Office and a native of Glamorganshire, where the family had been landowners for centuries. His father began life as a medical student and is said to have come from Glamorgansh

Born at Exeter on Dec. 12th, 1799, the third son of James Luke, merchant and banker, by his wife, who had been a Miss Ponsford, of Drewsteignton. He entered Blundell's School at Tiverton in 1813 and remained there until 1816, when, on the death of his father, he came to London and was articled to Jo

Born on April 18th, 1861, the second son of Charles F Littlewood, of Hempstead Hall, Norfolk. He was educated at Norwich and at University College, London, where he gained the Atkinson-Morley Scholarship in Surgery in 1884, and was House Physician and House Surgeon at the Hospital and Assistant Demo

Born in Gloucester Terrace on June 1st, 1847, the only child of Benjamin Clark. His parents died when he was young and he was brought up by his grandfather, Andrew Clark, of Greenford Place, near Harrow. He was educated at Brighton College and afterwards at University College School. He entered the

Theodor Kocher, a native of Berne, is remarkable in having remained in his native place throughout his life. Born in 1841, he graduated at the University of Berne in 1865 and studied further in Vienna and in Berlin, and he also visited London and Paris. Following G A Luecke he was appointed Professo

Born on May 10th, 1801, the son of one of the principal officers of HM Dockyards at Sheerness and Chatham. He received his preliminary education under Canon Griffiths, of Rochester, and his professional training under Abernethy at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Settling in practice at Dover Street, Pic

Born in London on 19 November 1889, the fourth child and third son of Leonidas Lambrinudi, originally of Smyrna, a stockbroker, and his wife, *née* Sechiari. He was educated privately and at Christ's College, Cambridge, and entered Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1910. He interrupted his medical st