After education at Guy’s Hospital he practised at Liverpool, where he became Hon Surgeon to the Liverpool Ladies’ Lying-in Charity, Surgeon to the Liverpool Northern Hospital, and Lecturer on Clinical Surgery and Physiology at the Liverpool College Institute. He left Liverpool for Droitwich, where,

Born at Birmingham on Jan 23rd, 1815, one of seven distinguished sons, including the Mayor of Manchester, a well-known Unitarian Minister, and a well-known teacher of the deaf and dumb. Educated at King Edward's School, where he showed promise of becoming an artist, being early thrown into the compa

Son of Charles Bernard Baker, CE, of 5 The Crescent, Bedford, and afterwards of St Albans. Born Nov 17th, 1864, at Uttoxeter, Staffs. Educated at Haileybury, where he was admitted in 1878 under Mr Bradby, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a Pensioner on June 16th, 1883, with Mr Image as his

A native of Essex. Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital; acted as House Surgeon at the Essex and Colchester Hospital, and afterwards practised at 113 High Street, Bordesley, Birmingham, becoming a Director of the Birmingham Medical Benevolent Society. He retired to Leamington in 1870, and was an ac

Born on Oct 20th, 1839, the son of B Russell Baker, a solicitor of Andover. Educated at the Andover Grammar School, and then apprenticed to George Speke Payne, a local surgeon. In 1858 he entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and qualifying in 1861 he was appointed Midwifery Assistant. In 1867 he was

Educated at Middlesex Hospital, where he was Resident Medical Officer. Practised at Royston, Hertfordshire for more than forty years, during which time he was well known as Coroner for Hertfordshire and as a Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. For many years he was Medical Sup

The younger son of Robert Ball, LLD, Director of the Dublin Museum of Science and Art, and brother of Sir Robert Stawell Ball, the Astronomer Royal, was born in Dublin on Feb 21st, 1851. After a brilliant career at Trinity College, Dublin, he practised for a short period in South Wales; but return

Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital; practised at Dudley, Worcestershire, where he died on April 16th, 1870. He was a favourite pupil of Abernethy, and Badley’s notebooks of Abernethy’s lectures were presented by his grand-daughter, Miss Laura E Badley, to Queen’s College, Birmingham. It does not

Olga Jonasson was professor of surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a pioneer in organ transplantation. Born in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of a Swedish Lutheran pastor and a nurse, she was first attracted to medicine by following her father round on his hospital visits. After Lym

John Ball was a true general surgeon, having spent his entire consultant career in practice on the isolated Scottish island of Skye, where he established a first-class surgical reputation, as well as becoming a much loved and hugely respected local figure. His reputation on the island was such that

Sir Aubrey Gordon Leacock, known as 'Jack', was a leading consultant surgeon in Barbados. He was born on 27 October 1918 in Barbados, into an established Bridgetown family. His father, Sir Stephen Leacock, was a leading merchant. He received his early education in Barbados, at Harrison College. In 1

William Polk Longmire Jr was one of the founders of the school of medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a former President of the American College of Surgeons. He was born in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, in 1913. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, he entered Johns H