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Duka, Theodore

  • Person
  • 1825-1908

Born in Dukafalu, Sáros in the Kingdom of Hungary (now in Slovakia) to Francis De Duka and Johanna de Szechy. Studied at the Lutheran College at Eperjes and the University of Budapest. Served in the Hungarian government in 1848 before joining the National Army during the Hungarian War of Independence (1848-1849).

Student at St George's Hospital on his arrival to London in 1850. Taught German and studied English at the Birkbeck Institution.

Assistant surgeon in the Bengal Army, where he studied many Indian languages and collected natural history specimens to send to the Hungarian National Museum. Retired from the Indian Medical Service in 1877 and settled in England. Researched languages after his retirement. Member of Council of the Royal Asiatic Society. President of the Tropical Section of the Eighth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in 1894. Vice president of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

Married the daughter of Rev Charles Taylor in Calcutta [Kolkata] in 1855; they had two sons. Died 5 May 1908.

Andrews, Octavius William

  • Person
  • 1865-?

Son of Henry Charles Andrews, who was also a student at St George's (Student no 4450). Educated at Bishops Stortford School and Durham University.

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School 1883. MRCS 1887. MB Dunelm 1887. BS 1888.

Surgeon, later fleet surgeon, deputy surgeon general and surgeon captain in the Royal Navy and in the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar. Medical officer of health of West Gloucestershire United Districts. CBE 1919, Legion d'honneur 1919.

Mast, Theodore Arthur

  • Person
  • ?-1908

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School. MRCS 1886, LRCP Edinburgh 1887.

In practice in the Transvaal, South Africa in 1891. Died at Harding, Natal, South Africa 4 Aug 1908.

Williams, Charles James Blasius

  • Person
  • 1805-1889

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.

Waters, J.M.

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Master and resident medical officer at Atkinson Morley's Convalescent Home, Wimbledon.

Howat, Douglas Donald Currie

  • Person
  • 1920-2006

Born in Denholm, Scotland. Studied medicine at King's College and at St George's Hospital Medical School, 1940-1943. MBBS 1943.

Anaesthetist at St George's Hospital. Helped Charles Drew set up the first cardiac surgery unit at St George's. Worked with Rodney Smith. Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists

Forlenze, Joseph

  • Person
  • 1757-1833

Ophthalmologist and surgeon

Organ, Amphilus

  • Person
  • ?

Night watch at St George's Hospital in 1747

Tanner, [Unknown]

  • Person
  • ?-1898

Nurse at St George's Hospital. Died of typhoid fever

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