The second son of E M Greenhow, MD, for many years a popular medical practitioner in North Shields. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and served for about two years as an Assistant Surgeon in the Army. He settled in practice at Newcastle in 1817 and was soon appointed Surgeon to the Lying-in

Studied at University College Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. He practised in South London: at 5 Union Terrace, Peckham; 20 Warwick Place, Peckham Rye, where about 1855 he was in partnership with Thomas Morris, MD; at Queen's Road, Peckham; at Talfourd House, Camberwell, where in 1875 he had a

Studied at the Exeter and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. Entering the Navy, he served on HMS *Hydra* and HMS *Vesuvius* on West India Stations during 1860-1864. During the yellow fever epidemic in 1864 he was attached to the Royal Naval Hospital, Bermuda. From 1865-1867 he was Assistant Surgeon at Gree

Practised at 1 Bloomsbury Place, Bloomsbury Square, and afterwards at 25 Guilford Street, London, WC. He was at one time Surgeon-Accoucheur to the Royal Maternity and Great Queen Street Lying-in Charities, Surgeon to the London Female Penitentiary and to the Hon Society of Ancient Britons. He died a

John Herbert Harker Webster was a consultant surgeon in Southampton. He was born in Heswall, Cheshire, on 2 October 1929, the son of Herbert Webster, a biscuit manufacturer, and Doris Louise née Harker, the daughter of a chandler. In 1935 the family moved to Prenton in order to be near to Birkenhead

Born in December, 1822; went to the Grammar School, Wem, Shropshire, was apprenticed to his father, then he studied at Edinburgh under Syme and at King's College Hospital, London. Both his father and grandfather, Edward Gwynn, junior and senior, were surgeons at Wem, and he joined his father and pra

After being Resident Medical Officer at the Stoke Newington Dispensary, practised at 269 Mare Street, Hackney, in partnership with Francis Toulmin (qv) and Frederick Toulmin, MRCS, under the names of Toulmin Brothers, and Toulmin and Hacon. He was Surgeon to the 1st (King's Own) Light Infantry Regim

John Stephens was a general surgeon at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He was born on 29 March 1919 in Northamptonshire, where his father was an engineer with farming interests. Educated at Stowe School, his scholastic achievements were complimented by a flair for sport, particularly rugby. At Gonvill

The son of John Thomas, of Hawarden, Flintshire, by his wife, Maria, sister of John Boydell, the publisher and engraver, Lord Mayor of London in 1790. He came to London as a young man with an introduction to John Hunter; he acted as dresser at St George's Hospital, where he also a pupil of William C

Maurice White Falloon was head of the department of surgery at Wanganui Hospital, New Zealand. He was born in Masterton, New Zealand, on 24 July 1921, the son of John William Archibald Falloon, a sheep farmer, and Grace née Miller, a farmer’s daughter. His father was the longstanding chairman of the

Richard Vasey ‘Dick’ Fiddian was a consultant general surgeon at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital from 1964 to 1989. He was born on 6 October 1923 in Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancashire, where his father, James Victor Fiddian, was a general practitioner-surgeon. His mother, Doris Mary née White, came fr

Studied at St George's Hospital, acted as Surgeon to the Chesterfield Dispensary, and then settled in practice at Hackney, where he was District Surgeon to the Mutual Benefit Institute and to the Sceptre Life Association. He had lived on the west side of St Thomas's Square and in Mare Street. He die