Studied at Edinburgh, at University College Hospital, London, and in Paris. At the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, he was first House Surgeon in 1876 under Bowman and George Critchett, having as his colleague Marcus Gunn, then for sixteen years Clinical Assistant, when he was appointed Assist

Born at Minshull Vernon, Cheshire; he went to Dr Bradley's school at Tarvin. In 1848-1849 he was apprenticed to his uncle, Dr Briscoe Earle, of Tarvin, who, being in practice prior to 1815, became automatically qualified. Moreton remembered being once chloroformed during his apprenticeship by way of

Studied at Charing Cross and Westminster Hospitals, and practised at 6 Angel Place, Pentonville, then at 130 Jermyn Street, West London. Afterwards he moved to Brighton, where he was Surgeon to the Skin Dispensary. He died at 6 Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton, in January, 1887.

Born at Rhôsmaen, near Llandilo. He studied at the London Hospital, entered the Royal Navy in 1846, and was successively Staff Surgeon, Fleet Surgeon, Deputy Inspector-General, and finally in 1877 Inspector-General. His career was distinguished by a large amount of actual service on the West Coast o

Entered Guy's Hospital in 1877, where he became House Surgeon. He settled in practice at Norwich, and acted as Surgeon to the Dispensary, to the Eye Infirmary, and to the Jenny Lind Infirmary for Children, practising at 10 Surrey Street. He was keenly and actively engaged in surgery, as is shown by

Born in Bristol, the son of John Morton, Superintending Surgeon - a rank discontinued in 1872 - in the HEIC's service in the Madras Presidency. He was educated at Clifton College and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained numerous prizes, including the Brackenbury Medical Scholarship. He beca

Born on January 22nd, 1797, and entered the Madras Army as Assistant Surgeon January 19th, 1822, being promoted to Surgeon on November 18th, 1833. He was an oculist and superintendent of one of the HEIC's Eye Infirmaries. He is included by Lieut-Colonel Crawford in his list of twenty-nine members of

Born on October 3rd, 1880, the only son of William Lang, FRCS, Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. Educated at Abbotsholme School in Derbyshire, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge and graduated BA with first class honour

Roger Barritt Jones was a consultant surgeon and clinical director of surgery and urology at Rotherham General Hospital. He studied medicine at Manchester University, gaining a BSc in 1965 and graduating MB ChB in 1968. After house posts, he was an assistant lecturer in anatomy at Manchester Univer

Nils Kock, professor of surgery and chief of the department of surgery II, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, was an eminent colorectal surgeon, widely known for his development of the 'Kock pouch', a continent pouch formed by using the terminal ileum after colectomy. Known as 'Nicke' to

Barrington Sherwood Mather, known as 'Barrie', was a surgeon in Cairns and Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Birmingham on 15 February 1932, the eldest of three children of Cecil Aubrey Mather, a general practitioner, and Dorothy Collins Mather née Guest. His brother John also became a doctor and

Robert Matthew Hay McMinn was a leading anatomist, who will always be associated with the medical atlas that bears his name. Known to his friends and colleagues as 'Bob', he was born on 20 September 1923 in Auchinleck, Ayrshire, the only child of Robert Martin McMinn, a local general practitioner, a