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Trained as a nurse at St George's, 1956-1957 (Tuberculosis Nursing course) and worked there as a sister (1957-1965) and subsequently as senior and then principal nursing officer

Trained as a nurse at St George's, c.1950

Trained as a nurse at St George's, 1946-1950, and completed a postgraduate course at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, where she worked for eight years before emigrating to the US in 1960. Latterly she worked at the Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley, California, for 33 years before retiring in 1996.

Nurse at St George's, 1953-1958 and 1960-1970, and subsequently at Manormead nursing home and Farnham Hospital, Surrey. Daughter of former St George's chaplain Paul Gliddon.

Student at St John's college, Cambridge. Fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1963. Chair of Surgery at St George's Hospital 1976-2002. Emeritus professor at St George's, University of London until 2007. Visiting professor for gastrointestinal research at King's College London from 2008.

Expert in inflammatory bowel disease, especially Crohn's disease. Identified the DNA of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP), hypothesising that exposure to MAP, which he showed was widely distributed in the environment, when combined with a patient’s genetic susceptibility could trigger an aggressive immune response, which might be the root cause of Crohn’s disease in many patients. Developed a vaccine with Tim Bull (Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's) and Sarah Gilbert (University of Oxford) [trials underway as at 2023].

Student at Caius College Cambridge and at St George's Hospital Medical School; graduated 1899. Won the Thompson gold medal and held resident posts at St George's.

Worked at the North Eastern (now Queen Elizabeth) Hospital for Children at Hackney, at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers and St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum, where he became senior surgeon, and, after retiring in 1935, emeritus surgeon, consulting surgeon and vice-president.

Proctologist. Published on physiology and treatment of surgical shock, on diseases of the rectum and colon and cancer. Developed an electric sigmoidoscope in 1904 and a method for perineal excision of the rectum in 1925.

Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. One of the founders of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. First secretary of the British Proctologial Society, later part of the Royal Society of Medicine.

His leg was amputated when he was a student by Joseph Lister following a sarcoma.

Married Cynthia Gibbons in 1915, with whom he had two sons. Married Georgette Polak in 1932. Died at Hove in 1957, aged 82.

Born in Thames Ditton. Trained as a nurse at St George's. Spent time working as a nurse in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand before returning to the UK, where she became a health visitor.

Matron at St George's Hospital, 1947-1969. Subsequently Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland, 1970-1976. Appointed CBE in 1962 and DBE in 1968 for services to nursing and her involvement in the Salmon Committee, which advised on changes to the structure of the nursing profession.

Studied for the London University Diploma of Nurse Education at the Royal College of Nursing.

Sister, Principal Tutor and then Principal Nursing Officer (Education) at St George's School of Nursing, c.1948-1970s. Appointed OBE in 1974.

Son of William Fuller, part of the Fuller family. Pupil at St George's 1876-1880. House surgeon and obstetric assistant at St George's. In family practice in Piccadilly.

Son of Henry Peter Fuller, grandson of John Fuller senior, brother of Henry William Fuller, father of Henry Roxburgh Fuller, all students at St George's.

Pupil at St George's. In family practice in Piccadilly.

Son of John Fuller senior, brother of John Fuller junior, father of Henry William Fuller and William Fuller, all students at St George's.

Pupil at St George's under Everard Home in 1811. MRCS 1813. In family practice in PIccadilly. Visiting apothecary and governor at St George's; active in fundraising for the new St George's Hospital in 1832.

Son of John Fuller senior, brother of Henry Peter Fuller. Pupil at St George's in 1803. House surgeon 1805-1806. Died in 1807 'from a fever said to have been brought on 'through overdoing himself' in a cricket match'.

Pupil at St George's in the 1770s

Pupil at St George's in 1829 under Benjamin Brodie. House surgeon 1836. Assistant to Brodie. In 1843, Henry C. Johnson was appointed assistant surgeon at St George's instead of Hawkins. Hawkins continued to act as a treasurer to the hospital and later vice-president, and participated in developing the new convalescent hospital at Wimbledon, Atkinson Morley's.

Honorary secretary and treasurer of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society. On the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons. Attended Cardinal Wiseman and Cardinal Manning in Rome, receiving a gold medal from Pope Pius IX. Consulting surgeon to Queen Charlotte's Hospital. Inspector of Schools of Anatomy. Attended Brodie in his final illness. Editor of Brodie's collected works and an autobiography, published in 1865.

Lived and practised at 27 Savile Row, then at 9 Duke Street. Died of bronchitis in 1892. Never married. Unrelated to the Hawkins family of surgeons, although his father was a doctor of medicine.

Born in Buckinghamshire. Educated at Dumpton House preparatory school, Repton and Gonville and Caius, Cambridge.

Student at St George's in 1932. Worked at St George's as casualty officer, house surgeon, house physician, assistant curator of the pathology museum, and medical registrar.Specialised in radiology and, supported by Wylie McKissock, won a Rockefeller travelling fellowship to Sweden in 1938, to study the new techniques of neuroradiology under Erik Lysholm at the Seraphimer Hospital in Stockholm.

Radiologist at Maida Vale Hospital in 1939. During the Second World War worked at a head injury hospital in Oxford, and in Singapore. After the war he returned to Stockholm, and in 1946 was appointed to the staff at St George’s, where he worked at the Atkinson Morley as neuroradiologist for Wylie McKissock. In 1947 he joined Hugh Davis at the National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square. From Sweden, he brought back the technique of percutaneous angiography, and experimented with vertebral angiography by 1950. He also initiated Myodil ventriculography, and introduced radionuclide brain scanning to the UK from the United States.

Member of the councils of both the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Surgeons, foundation president of the British Society of Neuroradiologists, president of the European Society.

Married Edith Burch in 1940. Died of brain injury following a car accident in 1987.

Born in the Hungerford almshouse in Wiltshire, where his father, Rev David Williams, was a warden. His mother was the daughter of a Monmouthshire surgeon.

Educated at the University of Edinburgh, 1820. MD 1824. Travelled to Paris in 1825-1827, where he drew and studied medicine. Became a pioneer in auscultation and the use of stethoscope; he became a specialist in the diseases of the chest. Medical practice at Half Moon Street; later at Cavendish Square and Upper Brook Street. Fellow of the Royal Society 1835. Lecturer in anatomy at St George’s in 1836 on diseases of the chest. Professor of medicine and physician to University College London 1839. Fellow of the College of Physicians in London; censor and Lumleian lecturer. One of the founders and a supporter of the Consumption Hospital, Brompton. First president of the Pathological Society in 1846. President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society. Physician extraordinary to the queen in 1874.

Married Harriet Williams Jenkins of Chepstow in 1830. Retired to Cannes, France in 1875. Died 24 Mar 1889 at Cannes.

One of the first medical officers at St George’s Hospital, 1733. Physician. Scottish. Graduated MD at Leyden in 1711, aged 36; prior to this, he was at sea with merchant ships 1701-1706. He sailed to Madeira [Portugal], the Cape of Good Hope [South Africa], Fort St George [Chennai, India], Bengala [Bengal, Bangladesh] and Malacca [Malaysia], and later to Persia [Iran], Surat [Gujarat, India], Bombay [Mumbai, India], Malabar [Indonesia], Borneo [Indonesia] and China. He is recorded having procured ‘specimens and curiosities’ for Hans Sloane from these journeys.

Appointed physician to the Westminster Infirmary in 1819; resigned on being elected to St George’s in 1733-1736. Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Caroline 1723. Fellow of the College of Physicians and the Royal Society.

Invested and lost money in the South Sea Bubble.

Married to Susannah Wishaw c.1725. Died 15 Sep 1742.

Born in Perth, Western Australia in 1913, the second of three brothers, coming to London 1922 with his family. He father was a pioneer in speech therapy who numbered among his patient the Duke of York, later King George the Sixth, who encouraged him to pursue a career in medicine. He trained in London, at King's College and St George's Hospital, qualifying in 1936.

His first interest was in general surgery and, after the usual training posts, he became a wartime consultant at St George's in 1940, serving through the heavy air raids on London. In 1941 he met Wylie McKissock, and became fascinated by the challenges of neurosurgery. He spent two and a half years training under McKissock, who had derived his own techniques from experiences with Horrax in Bostom and Olivecrona in Sweden. Logue then served as a neurosurgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps, primarily in the Far East, returning to Atkinson Morley's Hospital in London to join McKissock, who had set up a neurological service there. He toured neurological centres in the United States.

In 1948 he was appointed consultant neurosurgeon at Atkinson Morley's and Maida Vale Hospitals. In 1957 he left Atkinson Morley's to join the consultant staff of the Middlesex Hospital, where he taught undergraduates. In 1965 he founded and directed a department of neurosurgical studies at the National Hospital, Queen Square. A professorship in 1968 was followed by a university chair in neurosurgery in 1974, the first in England. In the succeeding years he took an active part in the evolution of the European Association of Neurological Surgeons.

He retired from practice in 1977. In 1993 he received one of the medals of honour of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.

In 1944 he married Anne Bolton, herself a consultant in child psychiatry at the Middlesex Hospital. They had two daughters, one of whom predeceased him.

Born on 22nd April 1898 at Tealing, near Dundee, the son of a Scottish minister, Neil Steward Elder, minister of the United Free Church of Scotland, and Isabelle, nee Duke. His early education was at the Morgan Academy, Dundee. He went to St Andrew's University as a foundation scholar in 1915. He graduated MA in 1919 with first class honours in natural science and also took the BSc with distinction in physiology. He qualified with the MB ChB in 1923, obtained the FRCS Enlgland in 1924 and the MD of St Andrews, in which he gained a Gold Medal in 1925. Also in 1925 he obtained a PhD from London University.

After graduating, he went to London to do house appointments at St George's Hospital, but en route he took a locum post for a Dr Arthur, a general practitioner in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. At St George's he gained the post of resident casualty officer for three months, and then became house physician for six months. He worked as a clinical assistant in the eye department in 1924.

Early in his career he devoted time to researching the physiology of the eye at University College London with Professor Starling and in biochemistry with Dr Drummond. He was consecutively Plimmer Research Fellow (1926), Laking Research Scholar (1926-29), Reittinger Professor (1926), BMA Scholar (1927), BMA Middlemore Prizeman (1929) and Research Associate (1933).

At an early stage in his career he built up a large private practice and in 1932 he operated on the then Prime Minister, Ramsey Macdonald, for glaucoma. He was appointed Surgeon Oculist to King Edward VIII and subsequently King George Vi and then Queen Elizabeth II. He was knighted in 1933 and appointed KCVO in 1946 and GCVO in 1958.

He contributed to medical literature, the first being his Textbook of Ophthalmology, for which he was awarded the Fothergillian Prize of the Medical Society of London. He then brought out a much larger work entitled A System of Ophthalmology in fifteen volumes. Recent Advances in Ophthamology was published in 1927 and Practice of Refraction in 1928. For many years he was editor of the British Journal of Ophthalmology and of Ophthalmic Literature.

The amalgamation of the three main eye hospital in London (Moorfields, the Royal Westminster, and the Central London) and the formation of the Institute of Ophthalmology, was put into action a year before the inauguration of the NHS largely due to his efforts. As early as 1937, Duke-Elder made plans for an Institute of Ophthalmology.

He was Director of Research at the Institute for seventeen years and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. The establishment of a special fellowship examination in ophthalmology at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1947 was mainly due to his efforts. Duke-Elder was one of the pioneers who initiated the Diploma of Ophthalmological Medicine and Surgery. In 1945 he helped to set up the Faculty of Ophthalmologists at the College. He was its first President, holding office for four years. In 1950 he chaired the XVI International Congress of Ophthalmology in London.

In the second world war he was consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Army with the rank of Brigadier. His duties involved visits to overseas hospitals and units in many theatres of war. He was subsequently civilian consultant in ophthalmology to the RAF and ophthalmic advisor to the Ministries of Health, Supply and Labour and to the London Transport Board.

The many medals he was given included the William MacKenzie Medal (Glasgow) in 1929, the Nettleship Medal (Ophthalmological Society of the UK) 1933, the Howe Medal (USA) 1946, the Research Medal of the American Medical Association 1947, the Donders Medal (Holland) 1947, the Doyne Medal (Oxford) 1948, the Gullstrand Medal (Sweden) 1952, the Medal of Strasbourg University 1962 and of Ghent University 1953, the Gonin Medal (International) 1954, the Lister Medal (Royal College of Surgeons of England) 1956, the Bowman Medal (Ophthalmological Society of the UK) 1957, the Ophthalmiatreion Medal (Athens) 1957, the Proctor Medal (USA) 1961 and the Lang Medal (Royal Society of Medicine of London) 1965. He also received the Bronze Star Medal of the USA and the Star of Jordan (1st Class). He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Phoenix of Greece and a Commander of the Orthodox Crusaders of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem).

In 1944 he was admitted to membership of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem and in 1954 was appointed Hospitaller of the Order in succession to Lord Webb-Johnson.

His wife, Phyllis Mary Edgar, had graduated in medicine in 1926 and worked as clinical assistant in the out-patient clinic at Moorfields. During the second world war she was in charge of the Zachary Merton Hospital at Banstead to which special cases were referred from the army. He died on 27th March 1978.

Born in Wiltshire 9 Jun 1783, son of Rev Peter Bellinger Brodie and Sarah Collins. His uncle was Thomas Denman, physician and obstetrician, alumnus of St George's and father-in-law of Matthew Baillie.

Student at Charterhouse School in London and St Bartholomew's under John Abernethy in 1801, Windmill Street School of Anatomy in 1802 under John Hunter and at St George's under Everard Home in 1803. Appointed house surgeon at St George's in 1805, assistant surgeon in 1808, surgeon in 1822. Lectured on surgery at the Windmill Street School of Anatomy and at St George's.

Private practice since 1813. Surgeon to the royal family, initially George IV; sergeant-surgeon to William IV and Queen Victoria. Baronetcy 1834. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons 1805; fellow of the Royal Society 1810, aged 26, and president 1858; foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science 1834; corresponding member of the French Institute 1844; foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; DCL of Oxford 1855; first president of the General Medical Council.

Published widely on surgery, including 1818 'Pathological and Surgical Observations on the Diseases of the Joints', which led to reduction in the number of amputation and new treatments for joint diseases. He also published on diseases of the urinary organs and nervous affections. In 1854 he published, initially anonymously, 'Psychological Inquiries'.

Married Anne Sellon in 1816; they had four children, including chemist Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet. He resigned from St George's in 1840 and retired to Surrey. Died of a shoulder tumour in Broome Park, Surrey 21 Oct 1862, aged 79.

Born in Hull, the eldest son of the painter Henry Barlow Carter and Eliza Barlow. He grew up in Scarborough and was educated at Hull Grammar School and St George's Hospital School of Medicine, where he started in 1847. He qualified M.R.C.S., L.S.A. in 1852, and spent a year in Paris following his studies.

On his return to London in 1853 he began studying human and comparative anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. During this time he also worked as a demonstrator at St George's Hospital until July 1857. In 1853 he was commissioned to make anatomical drawings for St George's Hospital School of Medicine. He obtained his Bachelor of Medicine at St George's Hospital School of Medicine in 1854, a degree he had initially failed the previous year.

He met Henry Gray at St George's around 1850, and worked with him to illustrate his books, most famously in 1856-1857 Gray's proposed anatomical textbook, which was to be known later as 'Gray's Anatomy'. Gray, however, did not credit Carter for his work on 'On the Structure and Use of the Spleen', 1851, and there were disagreements about acknowledgments as well as pay for Carter's later work.

In 1858 Carter moved to India and joined the Bombay Medical Service, where he became Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Grant Medical College. He also worked as Assistant-Surgeon in the Jamsetjee Jheejeebhoy Hospital. Between 1863 and 1872 he was Civil Surgeon in Satara. He returned to Europe briefly in 1872 to study leprosy in Norway and elsewhere. Returning to India in 1875, he investigated leprosy in Kathiawar. In 1876 he was put in charge of Goculdas Tejpal Hospital in Bombay, and in 1877 he became Principal of Grant Medical College and Physician of Jamsetjee Jheejeebhoy Hospital.

His publications made important contributions to tropical pathology, particularly in relation to leprosy, mycetoma, and relapsing fever. They include 'The Microscopic Structure and Mode of Formation of Urinary Calculi' (1873), 'On Mycetoma or the Fungus Disease of India' (1874), 'Report on Leprosy and Leper Asylums of Norway' (1874), 'On Leprosy and Elephantiasis' (1874), 'Modern Indian Leprosy' (1876), and 'Spirillum Fever: Synonyms Famine or Relapsing Fever as Seen in Western India' (1882)

He retired with the rank of Deputy Surgeon General in 1888 and became Honorary surgeon to the queen in 1890. He died at Scarborough on 4 May 1897.