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Son of N. Slater of Southport. Educated at Clifton College, 1873-1875, Studied at St John's College, Cambridge. MRSC 1884. MB Cantab. 1885. MA.

Medical registrar at St George's Hospital 1887. Lecturer in chemistry and bacteriology at St George's Hospital Medical School. Bacteriologist and lecturer in bacteriology 1895. Consulting bacteriologist 1915.

Moved to Tunbridge Wells 1918. Reader in bacteriology at the University of London. Fellow of the Royal Society and Medical Society of London. Joint editor of 'Review of Bacteriology'. Published 'Atlas of Bacteriology' with E.J. Spitta and 'Principles of Elementary Chemistry'.

Died at Tunbridge Wells in 1940, aged 83.

Educated at Rugby and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating in 1861.

Studied medicine at St George's, BM 1866. Demonstrator of anatomy 1869, curator of the museum 1870, assistant physician 1872-1876, physician 1876-1896, consulting physician 1896-1917; dean of the medical school 1888-1893. First visiting physician at Atkinson Morley's Convalescent Home, Wimbledon in 1874.

Specialisms: Laryngology

Examiner in medicine for Oxford University. Senior censor at the Royal College of Physicians. Prime arden of the Goldsmiths' Company.

Married Florence Tanqueray; they had one son. Retired to Devon in 1904. Died 3 Nov 1917.

Born in Liverpool, the son of merchant Thomas Pickering Pick. Educated at the Royal Institution School, Liverpool.

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1857. House surgeon 1863, surgical registrar and demonstrator of anatomy 1864-1866, curator of the museum 1866-1869. Assistant surgeon 1869-1878, surgeon 1878-1898, consulting surgeon 1898-1919. Visiting surgeon at Atkinson Morley's Convalescent Home, Wimbledon.

HM Inspector of Anatomy for England and Wales. Surgeon at the Belgrave Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Children 1886-1891 and the Home for Incurables. Examiner in anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Court of Examiners in Surgery. Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology 1894. Member of the Council at the RCS, vice-president 1898-1899.

Edited the 10th-16th editions of Gray's 'Anatomy'. Edited the 5th edition of the 'Treatise on Surgery, its Principles and Practice' by Timothy Holmes, 1888. Wrote 'Fractures and Dislocations, excluding Fractures of the Skull', 1885 and 'Surgery, a Treatise for Students and Practitioners', 1899 and published on the surgery of children's diseases and wounds.

Married Adeline Lawrence. Two of their sons became doctors. Retired to the Nook, Great Bookham, Surrey. Died on 6 Sep 1919

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1844; MRCS 1849. Surgical registrar and surgeon at St George's Hospital.

Surgeon at St James's Dispensary. Moved to Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1861. Honorary assistant surgeon at Gloucestershire Volunteers. Moved to Minchinhampton near Stroud in 1890. Surgeon at Minchinhampton Dispensary.

Died at Teddington 22 Oct 1898, aged 73.

The son of Richard Bright F.R.C.P, G.C. Educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, were he graduated with first-class honours in natural science in 1863.

He studied medicine at St George's Hospital, and also at Edinburgh and Paris. His first practice was in London and he held appointments at St George's Hospital as lecturer on comparative anatomy, and at St George's and St James's Dispensary as physician.

He married in 1869 and soon after left London for the continent. He practiced for a time in Dresden but in 1875 settled permanently in Cannes. One of the subjects of his research was the condition of the air in hospital wards. He died on 21st January 1922 in Cannes, survived by his wife and three daughters.

Educated at St George's Hospital and took the diplomas of M.R.C.S in 1874 and of L.R.C.P. Lond. in 1875. He took the F.R.C.S. Edin in 1882. House surgeon and assistant surgical registrar at St George's Hospital until he went into practice at Stony Stratford.

He held the Volunteer Decoration, and in 1913 he was appointed honorary surgeon to the king. He was a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and an honorary associate, lecturer and examiner for the St John Ambulance Association. He was a member of the British Medical Association and had been president of the South Midland Branch. He became a member of the Naval and Military Committee of the British Medical Association in October 1913. For many years was a member of the Bucks Territorial Force Association and was appointed country director of the Bucks branch of the British Red Cross Society.

Died at Stony Stratford on 14th August 1921. His son, Lieutenant G.J.O Bull, 2nd Field Company, East Lancashire was killed in the Dardanelles on 8th July 1915.

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.

Born in 1860, the son of John Dakin, JP. Educated at Owens College Manchester and later Guy's Hospital where he graduated as MB, BS in 1882.

After holding house appointments at Guy's Hospital and the General Lying-In Hospital, he was elected physician to the Royal Hospital for Women and Children in 1885 and obstetric physician to the Great Northern Hospital in 1887. In 1891 he was made obstetric physician and lecturer on midwifery at St George's Hospital, before later returning to the General Lying-In Hospital as physician.

He examined in midwifery for Oxford University and the Conjoint Board and in 1897 produced a Handbook of Midwifery. He was president of the Obstetrical Society of London in 1905-06. He emerged from retirement to serve as a surgeon with the French Army in the First World War, receiving the Legion of Honour an the Croix de Guerre.

In 1892 he married Sylvia, daughter of F.T. Lewis, but had no children. He died in a London nursing home in 1935.

Born in Maida Vale, London.

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1884. MB Lond 1890, MRCS, LRCP 1889. MD London, MRCP. House physician at St George's Hospital 1889, medical registrar 1898, anesthetist.

Consulting physician at the Convent of the Good Shepherd, Hammersmith. Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. RMO at the Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor, Isle of Wight.

Died 19 Oct 1905.

Born in Somerset. Educated at St Paul's School.

Studied at St George's Hospital, 1895; won Treasurer's prize, Pollock prize and the Thompson medal; graduated 1902. House physician, house surgeon, obstetric assistant at St George's Hospital; assistant surgeon 1906, surgeon and lecturer on surgery 1914, consulting surgeon 1934.

Surgeon at the Hampstead General Hospital, Bolingbroke Hospital in Wandsworth; consulting surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea. Examiner in surgery at the University of Cambridge and the University of London. During WWI, served in HMS China with the rank of surgeon-lieutenant RNVR. Private practice at 14 Welbeck Street.

Married Sybil Mary Haines in 1920; they had no children. Died suddenly 12 Mar 1952, aged 73 at home.

Born at Bromborough, the son of Henry Frederick and Ellen Maria (Watson) Fox. Educated at Marlborough, Trinity College, Cambridge, and St George's Hospital.

After holding house posts and proceeding to his MD he decided to specialise in dermatology and spent some time at the St Louis Hospital in Paris. In 1906 he was appointed skin physician at St George's Hospital and a full member of staff. He worked at St George's Hospital for twenty years and also served as treasurer and first director of the venereal diseases clinic. He was also for a time assistant physician and lecturer in dermatology at the Seaman's Hospital, Greenwich, and on the staff of St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin. He also conducted a practice at his house in Grosvenor Street. On compulsory retirement in 1926 he became chairman of Duncan, Fox & Co., an import and export house. He drove ambulances in the first and second world war and he was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940.

He died in 1962. His wife died in 1945. They had one son and a daughter.

Son of veterinary surgeon and pathologist Joseph Gamgee, brother of surgeon Sampson Gamgee. Born in Florence, Italy. Educated at University College School in London. Studied medicine at Edinburgh University; MD 1862.

House physician at the Royal Infirmary. Assistant tothe professor of medical jurisprudence 1863. Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Lecturer on physiology at Surgeons' Hall in Edinburgh. Fellow of the Royal Society aged 31. Worked in Germany at Heidelberg and Leipzig in 1871. Brackenbury professor of physiology at Owens College, Manchester 1873. Dean of the Medical School at Manchester. Physician to the Hospital for Consumption. Fullerian professor of physiology at the Royal Institution in London. Examiner for the Universities of Oxford and London. Consulting physician at St Leonards.

Assistant physician and lecturer on pharmacology at St George's Hospital 1887.

Resigned in 1889 due to ill health, settling in Switzerland after a year at Cambridge. Continued working as a consultant and researcher. Croonian lecturer at the Royal Society 1902.

Married Mary Louisa Clark in 1875; they had two daughters and one son. Returned to England before his death, and died while visiting Paris in 1909.

Born in London. Educated at King's College School and St George's Hospital. MRCS 1858, LSA 1856.

House surgeon at St George's Hospital 1857, obstetric assistant 1858-1860. Member of the Pathological Society of London.

Emigrated to New Zealand. in 1861. Assistant surgeon to the medical officer to the British Army and to the Auckland Cavalry Volunteers. Surgeon to the Auckland Rifle Brigade Volunteers. Surgeon to the Auckland Dispensary. Surgeon at the Auckland Hospital.

Married Elizabeth Morrow in 1862, and Frances Etta Mary Butt in 1902. He had two children. Died 6 Dec 1910 in Auckland, New Zealand.

Born at Keswick on 16th April 1851, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Cheltenham and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a first class in classics and a second in natural sciences.

Myers did his clinical training at St George's Hospital, qualifying as LSA in 1879, and then held house appointments there. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1881 and was made a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1893. Myers suffered from attacks of an epileptic nature which prevented him from receiving a position on the staff of a teaching hospital. He was physician to the Belgrave Hospital for Children. His chief interest was in psychical research.

Myers died on 10th January 1894.

Born in Wigan, the son of a clothing manufacturer. Educated at St John's College, Grimsargh, near Preston, and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Studied natural sciences.

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School Medical School 1895; house surgeon and house physician 1898; surgical registrar and demonstrator of anatomy 1899; assistant surgeon 1900-1905; surgeon 1905.

Consulting surgeon at the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Women and Children and the Kensington Dispensary and Children's Hospital. Private practice at 44 Brook Street, London. Examiner at Cambridge University, the Society of Apothecaries and the Court of Examiners. The first honorary secretary of the newly amalgamated Royal Society of Medicine 1907; later honorary treasurer and honorary fellow. The first honorary secretary of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Served on the Council of Medical Society of London.

Married Lilian Dorothea Lane, who died in 1921. They had one son, John, who became an archeologist and was killed in Greece in 1942. Pendlebury's second marriage was in 1935 to Mabel Webb (d.1959). Retired to Malvern. Died in Malvern 21 April 1953, aged 82.

Son of George Rolleston, physician and surgeon, professor of physiology at Oxford. His mother Grace Davy was niece of Sir Humphry Davy, chemist. Brother of J.D. Rolleston, surgeon. Educated at Marlborough; studied natural sciences at St John's College, Cambridge. Studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital; MB 1888.

Held junior roles at St Bartholomew's. Demonstrator at Cambridge; fellow of St John's College. Employed at the Metropolitan Hospital and the Victoria Hospital for Children.

Curator of the museum at St George's Hospital. Assistant physician 1893-1898, physician 1898-1918, consulting physician 1918. Visiting physician at Atkinson Morley's Convalescent Home, Wimbledon.

Consulting appointments at the King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst, and the Royal National Hospital, Ventnor. Served at the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Pretoria in South Africa during the Boer War. Consulting surgeon to the Royal Navy during the First World War as surgeon rear-admiral. Medical Consultative Board for the Navy and the Medical Administrative Committee of the RAF and many Royal Commissions. Physician-in-Ordinary to King George V 1923-1932, Physician-Extraordinary 1932. Regius professor at Cambridge 1925-1932. Censor, president, Harveian orator, Goulstonian lecturer, Lumleian lecturer, Lloyd-Roberts lecturer and FitzPatrick lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians; represented RCP and Cambridge University on the General Medical Council. President of the Royal Society of Medicine. Examiner for the universities of Glasgow, Oxford, Cambridge, London, Durham, Manchester, Bristol and Sheffield. KCB 1919, baronet 1924, GCVO 1929.

Published on diseases of the liver, gall bladder and bile ducts, author of the second edition of 'System of Medicine' 1906-1911 with Allbutt, old age and history of medicine.

Married Lisette Eila Ogilvy in 1894; they had two sons. Died home at Haslemere 24 Sep 1944.

Grandson of Robert Pennington Sparrow (d.1866), who was also a surgeon and Student at St George's Hospital Medical School in 1843. Born on the Isle of Wight. Educated at Eastman's Royal Navy Academy, University of London and University of Durham.

MRCS, LRCP 1915.

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1910. Medical registrar, house surgeon and house physician at St George's Hospital.

Worked at John Leigh Neurological Hospital in Cheshire. Assistant MO 1919-1920. Temporary captain RAMC. Deputy commissioner of medical services in the North Western Region. Neurologist and psychiatrist.

Born in 1886, the son of Colonel Stanier Waller and Sophia Louisa Willes. Educated at Marlborough College. He graduated from Oxford University in 1912 with a Bachelor of Medicine and in 1921 with a Doctor of Medicine. He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1921. He practiced in Oxford before he took a resident appointment at St George's Hospital.

He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Iraq Campaign. He returned to Oxford, and practiced there until around 1926 when he moved to Rustington where he remained in practice for the rest of his life.

He married Mary Anne Cameron in 1922. He died in 1958 aged 72.

Educated at King's College School and East India Company's Military College; Bombay Artillery 1852. Served in India and Aden, and resigned due to ill health in 1857. Studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, BA 1861, MB 1862, and St George's Hospital.

Worked as a medical registrar St George's Hospital from 1863.

Assistant physician at the Westminster Hospital 1868, physician 1875, lecturer 1868-1893. Assistant physician at the Hospital for Sick Children 1873, physician 1884. Lecturer and Censor at the Royal College of Physicians, 1894; fellow of RCP in 1870. Examiner in medicine at Cambridge.

Specialisms: Pneumonia, chorea.

Died in an accident in London in 1894, knocked down by a hansom cab. He was unmarried

One of the first female students at St George's. Grew up in Victoria, Canada. Daughter of Hewitt Bostock. British Columbia senator. Sent to school in England aged 15, educated at Prior's Field, Godalming.

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1914. MB, BS Lond 1917. MRCS, LRCP 1917. Surgical registrar, house surgeon, obstetric assistant and resident anaesthetist at St George's Hospital.

House physician at Queen's Hospital for Children in Hackney. Missionary in India in 1922-1934, where she met her husband Victor Sherman. They moved to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where she founded the Humanist League of Canada. Chairperson of the mental hygiene committee for the Canadian Council of Women. Canadian Humanist of the Year 1975.

Educated at Ramsgate and St Laurence College. Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1911. MB, BS Lond 1919. MRCS, LRCP 1914.

Senior clinical assistant at Victoria Park Chest Hospital and National Hospital for the Diseases of Heart. Assistant medical officer at Downs Sanatorium, Sutton. Temporary captain at RAMC, 1914-16, took part in Gallipoli landing. General practice in Shepherd's Bush 1919-1928, in Brighton 1929-1934 and in Richmond 1934.

Born in Cullompton, Devon. Educated at Malvern College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. BA 1912. MRCS, LRCP 1916.

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1913. Surgical registrar, house surgeon and house physician at St George's Hospital.

RMO at the Hospital of Saint John and Saint Elizabeth.

Educated at Marlborough College; Clare College, Cambridge 1891; BA 1894; MA 1898, MB and BChir.

Lecturer in pathology and forensic medicine at St George's Hospital; dean of the Medical School. Curator of the Pathological Museum.

Pathologist at Grosvenor Hospital and Belgrave Hospital for Children.