Served as Staff Surgeon on board HMS *Indus* and HMS *Chameleon*. He retired with the rank of Fleet Surgeon, and later was promoted to the honorary rank of Deputy Inspector-General. He resided subsequently at 3 Alma Place, North Shields, and died on April 22nd, 1896.

The sixth son of John Nolloth, at one time Assistant Secretary of the Navy Board and latterly of the Portsmouth Dockyard. Edward Nolloth was the first to be appointed on the staff of the Royal Naval Hospital, Malta, the second appointment being Sir Spencer Wells (qv). He served as surgeon on HMS *Vi

Born of a good Yorkshire family on January 4th, 1823, the son of John Jackson, surgeon, Paradise Street, Rotherham; he went to Merchant Taylors' School at Crosby, and was then apprenticed to James Garstang (qv), of Lytham, Lancashire, a well-known practitioner and county magistrate. After that he wa

Studied at St Thomas's Hospital, and was then appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Navy. He sailed on HMS *Talbot* on one of the last expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin. On his return he resigned his Commission, passed the examination for the FRCS and in 1858 sailed to Melbourne, where h

Born at Bristol, where his father was a prominent merchant. After school at Totteridge under C T Thorowgood, he was apprenticed to J G Lansdown, Surgeon to the Bristol General Infirmary. Subsequently he studied at Guy's Hospital, also at University College Hospital, at Edinburgh under Syme, and in P

Born in the West of Ireland; Sligo had been the home of several distinguished Taaffes. In early life he came to England and was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1856 he settled in practice at Brighton as partner of Sir John Cordy Burrows, afterwards practising alone. He was appointed in 18

Born on April 5th, 1823, the son of James Tyrrell Ross, of Ringwood, Hampshire; he studied at St George's Hospital, and joined the Medical Establishment of the Bengal Army on July 26th, 1845. In 1846 he served with the Field Hospital of the Army of the Sutlej; in 1848 and 1849 with the field force

Educated for the profession of architecture at University College, where he gained prizes. He even practised as an architect, exhibited studies at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy, and obtained honourable mention for a design of a building to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. In this year, how

Born in Great Ormond Street, the seventh son of Robert Sibley, architect and surveyor to the County of Middlesex, and brother of George Sibley, the well-known civil engineer. He was educated at a private school and then at University College School, where he distinguished himself in mathematics, bei

Born at Royston, Herts, in 1825, the eldest son of William Nunn, MRCS, who practised in Royston for many years. William Nunn's father, Thomas Nunn, was a surgeon in the Navy, and the wife of this Naval surgeon was a descendant of Sir Edmond Butts, Physician to Henry VIII. Both the father and mother

The second son of Edward Fordham Flower and Celina, the eldest daughter of John Greaves, of Leamington. He was born at Stratford-on-Avon on November 30th, 1831. His father was founder of the brewing business known as Flower & Sons, which continued to be carried on at Stratford-on-Avon. The elder bro

Born on Nov. 6th, 1830, the fourth son of William Hulke, surgeon, of Deal in Kent, where the family had practised from the time it was driven out of the Low Countries by the persecution of the Duke of Alva two hundred years earlier. Young Hulke was educated in the Moravian College of Neuwied from 18