Born at Bow, the son of the Rev Charles Champneys, Rector of St Botolph's in the City of London, and Minor Canon of Windsor. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, and first practised at Slough, where he was Surgeon to the Police, and to the Great Western Railway whilst the branch to Windsor was under c

Studied medicine at King's College and Middlesex Hospitals, and began practice in Old Broad Street, City of London, from 1835. He was led to the study of bodily deformities by acting as Surgeon to the Society for Diseases of the Spine and Hip, and as Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospit

Born at Ampthill, the eldest son of Thomas Chapman, surgeon, who lived to be 94, and nephew of Sir John Chapman, FRCS (qv), of Windsor. He was a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital under Abernethy from 1825-1827, and spent the winter session of 1828-9 in Paris. In 1830 he was House Surgeon to Earle

Eileen Busby was an associate specialist at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London. Born in Clapton, London, on 5 December 1930, she was the daughter of William Francis Busby, a house painter and decorator, and Rose Harriet née Stephenson, a dressmaker. Eileen was educated at various schools during the

Christopher Joseph Cahill, known as 'Joe', a consultant general surgeon at Kingston, was a pioneer of day-case laparoscopic cholecystectomy, an operation for which he became celebrated and which soon became the norm. He was born on 7 May 1952 in Kew, the son of Edward Joseph and Margaret Cahill. Edu

Hugh McDonald was the first consultant general surgeon with the FRCS appointed to Great Yarmouth Hospital, Norfolk, who did not also engage in general practice. He was born in London on 29 May 1914 and went to Guy's Hospital after schooling at Bishop's Stortford. House appointments at St Andrew's Ho

Brian Maurice was a consultant general surgeon at Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells. He was born on 28 July 1927 in Sutton, Macclesfield, Cheshire, the elder son of Norman B Maurice, a chemist who carried out pioneering research into synthetic nylon, and his wife Dorothy (née Armstead), wh

Practised in Palace Street, and then in Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, W. He died at Devon House, Isleworth, on May 30th, 1875.

Born on November 21st, 1802, and became Hospital Assistant (Hospital Assistant to the Forces, a designation employed from 1813-1828) on December 15th, 1825. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 13th Regiment of Foot on September 28th, 1826 and was transferred to the 31st Foot in 1830, and to the

Educated at St George's Hospital. He practised at Kirby Moorside, Yorkshire, where he was Medical Officer to the Union. He died at Kirby Moorside on July 28th, 1885. Publication: "Case of Strangulated Femoral Hernia ending in Mortification of the Intestine, Recovery of the Patient."-*Prov. Med. and

Educated at Guy's Hospital. He practised at Lower Tooting, where he was first appointed Union Medical Officer, and then Divisional Surgeon to the Police, Medical Officer to the Holborn Estate Almshouses, and Public Vaccinator. He was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London, a member of the Phy

Born on December 20th, 1834, the fourth son of Edward Cayley, JP, banker, of Stamford, Lincolnshire, and Frances, daughter of the Rev Richard Twopeny, MA, Rector of Little Casterton, Rutlandshire. Among his brothers were the late Sir Richard and Dr William Cayley of the Middlesex Hospital. He was co