Will Davey wrote the first textbook on surgery in tropical countries. He was born on 28 February 1912 in Dunmurry, near Belfast, in Northern Ireland. His father, Robert, was a minister of religion. His mother was Charlotte née Higginson. One of a family of five, he studied medicine at Queens Univers

Born at Toronto on 17 July 1855, the eldest surviving son of Sir Matthew Crooks Cameron (of the Lochiel Camerons), Chief Justice of Common Pleas, Ontario, and his wife Charlotte Ross Wedd of Maidstone, Kent. He was educated at Upper Canada College and at the University of Toronto, where he studied l

Born 16 March 1911, the son of N Campbell, of Kauwhata, Palmerston North, New Zealand, he was educated at Newbury School and Palmerston North Boys High School, and at the Otago Medical School, Dunedin, where he qualified in 1936. After serving as house surgeon at Wellington Hospital he came to Engla

Born 1 September 1852 at Valencia, his father a Basque, his mother from Burgos. He was educated at Urgel (Seo de Urgel), Lerida, where his attention was turned to medicine by a severe attack of pleurisy. As a medical student he had a distinguished career, winning many prizes at the Valdemia College

Born at Richmond, Surrey, 4 April 1863, the sixth child and fourth son of Thomas James Carless, contractor, and Jane Cullen Furze, his wife. He was educated at Carrington Lodge, Richmond, at King's College School, London, and at King's College, where he won the senior scholarship in 1885, and at Kin

Born 21 November 1889, the seventh child and second son of William Carlton, muslin draper, of Grantham, and Mary Elizabeth Rollinson, his wife. He was educated at Doncaster Grammar School, and won an open exhibition in mathematics and natural science to St John's College, Oxford, where he began by r

Born in the north of Ireland in 1865 or 1866, son of a clergyman and nephew of William Boyd Carpenter (1841-1918); Bishop of Ripon, for whom see DNB. His mother was a Miss Ball, daughter of a Donegal clergyman. He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, a

Educated at Dublin and was at one time Surgeon to the Cloyne Dispensary District and Medical Superintendent of the Aghada Fever Hospital. He practised at Farside Villa, Rostellan, Co Cork, and was for many years Medical Officer to the Aghada Dispensary District, Surgeon to the Military and Governmen

Was in general practice in Scarborough for nearly thirty years, from 1819, when he joined partnership with John Dunn (qv), to within a few years of his death. He was a member of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, and had other interests besides those of his profession, for he was also a member of

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he had been preceded by two other Cornish Trevans. He was a Naval Surgeon, and died, after his retirement, in Padstow, Cornwall, on July 18th, 1880.

Born in Fleet Street, London on 21 September 1858, the fourth child and second son of Archibald Day, actuary to the Prudential Assurance Company, and Emily Thompson, his wife. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He soon showed skill in dissection

Born 23 January 1866 at Wincanton, Somerset, the second son of Samuel Deanesly, wine merchant, and his wife, *née* Dowding. He was educated at King's School, Bruton, Somerset, and at University College Hospital, where he was vice-president of the medical society and served as house surgeon, house ph