Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

John Samuel Richardson was a former President of the General Medical Council and the British Medical Association who inadvertently played a key role in the resignation of Macmillan in 1963. The son of a solicitor, he was born on 16 June 1910 in Sheffield, where his grandfather had been Lord Mayor, M

Educated at University College, London, where he was Obstetrical and Ophthalmic Assistant, and in Paris. He was connected for a long time with the Metropolitan Hospital, and became Consulting Physician. He was also at one time Physician to the North London Hospital for Consumption and to the Farring

Educated at Guy's Hospital and at Northampton. He practised at Northampton, and at the time of his death was Senior Physician of the Northampton General Infirmary, and Hon Consulting Physician of the Northampton Royal Dispensary. He died at Billing Road, Northampton, on July 21st, 1879. Publication

The son of Edward Wilson Duffin, MD (qv); was educated at King's College, London, and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Berlin. He came under the influence of Virchow in Berlin, and thus acquired an interest in pathology which coloured all his later work as clinician and teacher. He was House Phy

Educated at the Webb Street Medical School and at St George's and St Thomas's Hospitals; first practised at Staines, Middlesex, then at 11 Westbourne Crescent as physician to the Royal Free Hospital; next at Winchester, where he was Physician to the County Infirmary. He died at St Leonards on April

Frederick Grant Banting, the discoverer of insulin, was born at Alliston, Ontario on 4 November 1891, fifth child and fourth son of William Thompson Banting, farmer, of Irish extraction, and Margaret Grant, his wife, of Scotch extraction. He was educated at Alliston High School and Toronto Universit

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. He was the second son of Lieut-Colonel Herbert Lloyd, of Chelsea. Settling as a medical practitioner in Bath in 1829, he practised there for more than forty years, holding various medical appointments. At the time of h

Educated at Guy's Hospital, acted as Assistant to H S Powis at Clapham Common, and practised at Kingston-on-Thames in partnership with W S Roots. At the time of his death he was Consulting Physician to the Surbiton Cottage Hospital. He was a Fellow of the Microscopical Society, a member of the Patho

Came of a Swiss family and received his early education in arts and sciences at Lausanne, studying for his profession subsequently at Strasburg, Heidelberg, Geneva, Bâle, and St Thomas's Hospital. He was appointed Physician to the French Hospital and Dispensary, London, and was well known in medical

The son of Nicholas Littleton, a medical practitioner at Saltash, Cornwall. He was educated at University College, London. He graduated at the University of London with honours in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, medicine, and surgery. After qualifying he was for some time an Assistant Surgeon in the

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and in Paris. He practised first in London at 8 Hinde Street, then in the United States, where he was Physician to the Columbia General Hospital and to the British and the American Legations. He returned to Cromwell Road, and acted as Physician to the City Dispen

The son of Henry Compton Law, of Allington, by the daughter of the Rev John Taylor, Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Caroline. He was first articled to S S Varcombe, of Castle Cary, and in 1867 became a student at Guy's Hospital, where his contemporaries were Golding-Bird, Jacobson, Mahomed, and Pye-Sm