Born at St. Petersburgh on August 12th, 1807, the second son of Robert Busk (1768-1835), merchant, and a member of the English colony there, by his wife Jane, daughter of John Westly, Custom House clerk at St. Petersburgh. His grandfather, Sir Wadsworth Busk, was Attorney-General of the Isle of Man.

Educated at the University of Durham, where he is said to have gained many prizes, though he never graduated, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Became Resident Medical Officer at Sandwell Hall, Clinical Assistant at the City Asylum, Birmingham, and Assistant Medical Officer to the City and County As

Born at Boston, Lincolnshire on 15 April 1881, the fourth son and seventh (youngest) child of James Buck junior, corn merchant, and his wife, *née* Ridlington. He was educated at Sheffield Grammar School and at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, where he was house surgeon, surgical registrar, and resi

John Buck was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the Woolwich and Greenwich area. He was born in Hove, Sussex, on 30 October 1915, the son of Arthur Herbert Buck, a general surgeon, and Lilian Maude Bligh, a theatre sister who was a direct descendant of the captain of the Bounty. John was brought u

Educated at Guy's Hospital. He practised at Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire, and afterwards for many years at Godalming, Surrey, where he was Surgeon to the Foresters' Society and to the South-Western Railway Company. He died in retirement at 117 Holland Road, W, on July 16th, 1902.

Educated at St John's, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Before qualifying he served during the Franco-German War as Surgeon's Assistant in the Hessian Service of the German Army, being posted to the Alice Hospital, Darmstadt, in 1871. For his services he received the Hessian Sanitäts Kreuz

Born on July 3rd, 1797, the eldest son by his second wife of James South, a druggist in Southwark. Sir James South (1785-1867), President of the Royal Astronomical Society, who also qualified as a medical man, was his half-brother. His father made money by prescribing for immense numbers of children