John Valentine Todd was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Newcastle Hospital and the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. He was born in either 1912 or 1913 and studied medicine at Durham University, qualifying MB BS in 1935 and proceeded to Liverpool to specialise in orthopaedics. He was consulta

Studied at University College Hospital and practised at Hereford, where he was Surgeon to the Hereford General Infirmary and Surgeon Major to the Herefordshire Militia. His address in later life was Rokeby, Hampton Park, Hereford, and he was Deputy Lieutenant and JP for Herefordshire. His death occu

Was at one time Surgeon to Troops in Garrison and to the Guardship and Royal Marines, Pembroke. At the time of his death he was District Inspector of Agencies, General Superintendent and Confidential Medical Referee of the Scott Union Insurance Company, Deputy Lieutenant for Pembrokeshire, and a Jus

Joined the Army as Hospital Assistant to the Forces on June 24th, 1815, and was gazetted Staff Assistant Surgeon on April 18th, 1822. He was promoted Surgeon to the 35th Foot on January 4th, 1839, was placed on the Staff (1st Class) on November 1st, 1842, and retired on half pay on May 1st, 1849. Wh

The eldest surving son of Hall Overend, who practised in Sheffield. He was born in May, 1806, and was educated at the Sheffield Grammar School. He then entered the united hospitals of Guy's and St Thomas's and was afterwards sent to Edinburgh. A prospectus of a School of Anatomy and Surgery was issu

Gordon Walker was a consultant surgeon on the Isle of Wight. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1919. He studied medicine at Melbourne University, qualifying in 1942. Shortly afterwards, he joined the Royal Australian Air Force as a medical officer and was posted to the UK, attached to RAAF Spi

Born 16 June 1855 at Tillington, Stafford, second son and fourth of the seven children of Edward Marsh (b 1806), yeoman farmer, and Elizabeth Hall, his second wife. He was educated at King Edward's School, Stafford, and King's College Hospital, London. After qualifying in 1877 he served with the Tur

Born at Worksop, Notts, 14 June 1860, son of John Alfred Coates, he received his medical education at the London Hospital, where he gained a scholarship in anatomy and was a surgical prizeman. He held resident appointments there, and in 1884 set up in general practice in Moss Side, Manchester. He

The fourth son of John Webb, of Woodland Hill, Staffordshire, and afterwards of Dublin, by his wife, a daughter of Thomas Heath. He was born in Dublin on October 25th, 1772, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon March 17th, 1794; was promoted Regimental Surgeon on July 15th, 1795; Surgeon to the Force

Clare Marx was a pioneer in British surgery and medicine in general, breaking through the glass ceiling in a variety of places. She was one of the first consultant female orthopaedic surgeons in the country, the first female president of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and of the Royal Col

Born 2 December 1857 at Ynyscynhaiarn, Carnarvonshire, the eldest son and second child of the Rev Thomas Jones (born 1826) of Cefnmaesydd, afterwards of Eisteddfa, Criccieth, a small landed proprietor, and Elizabeth, the only daughter of Robert Jones of Eisteddfa; seven of their ten children grew up