He added his mother's surname to his own on his twenty-first birthday. He was the son of John Berrett Lazarus and his wife Martha. He could trace his ancestry through his father to Moses Maimonides, physician to Saladin. He was educated at the City of London School and Downing College, Cambridge, and took the Cambridge degrees of BA in 1887 and MB,BCh in 1889.
After holding junior posts at the Brompton and St George's Hospitals, he obtained one as demonstrator of pathology at Cambridge in 1893. He later obtained an appointment as pathologist and lecturer on pathology at the Westminster Hospital. Infection incurred at a post mortem necessitated the amputation of his left arm in 1901. In 1903 he was chosen as director of the Cancer Research Laboratories at the Middlesex Hospital, where he remained until his retirement in 1924, being given the additional duties of professor of experimental pathology in 1920. In 1909 he delivered the Croonian Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians. During the First World War he served in France for two years.
He published A Manual of General Pathology in 1898 and The Elements of Pathological Anatomy and Histology for Students in 1903. His work on cancer, in particular the effects of X-rays and radium on living cells, earned him and the Middlesex Hospital an international reputation. He was a member of the Grand Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. During his retirement in Essex, he edited the medical section of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
He was married and had one son.
Born on 19th August 1874, the son of William Roderick of Llanelly. He was educated at Bath College, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and St George's Hospital.
At St George's Hospital he held the posts of House Physician, House Surgeon and Surgical Registrar. In 1900 he returned to Cambridge to act as demonstrator in surgery for Joseph Griffiths, surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital. In 1917 Roderick set up in practice and was appointed police surgeon.
In 1901 Roderick had become medical officer to the University Rife Volunteers (later the Cambridge University Officers Training Corps) and he became the commander of the medical contingent. In 1914 he was commissioned Major RAMC attached to the 1st Eastern General Hospital. In 1917 he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and went to France in command of the 55th General Hospital, for which he was awarded the OBE and Territorial Decoration.
On returning to Cambridge in 1919 he was appointed honorary surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital and from 1928 to 1939 he was supervisor of examinations and examiner in surgery for the University. He retired in 1939. Roderick was a general surgeon, but particularly interested in orthopaedics, for which he established clinics at the hospitals in Huntingdon and Wisbech.
He married Hilda Mary Clay and they had four sons and three daughters. He died on 29th August 1958 in Addenbrooke's hospital aged 84.
Born at Aston Manor, Warwickshire on 24 December 1868. He was educated at the Leamington Collegiate School. He went to Caius College, Cambridge in 1887, and received his clinical training at St George's Hospital.
After graduation he held a number of appointments at St George's Hospital before joining the staff at Charing Cross and Brompton Hospitals. At Brompton he was in charge of the Chelsea Tuberculosis Dispensary from 1911. For some years Fenton was dean of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and also dean of the Medical School at Brompton. He retired from the staff of Charing Cross in 1933, and from Brompton in 1939. On his retirement he was appointed consulting physician to both hospitals.
Fenton was an examiner in medicine for the Royal College of Physicians, Cambridge University, the University of Wales and the Society of Apothecaries of London. He was joint author with L.S.T Burrell of a textbook entitled Diseases of the Chest (1930).
He married Vivian Olive Ferguson, who died in 1930, and had one daughter and two sons. He died on his eighty-ninth birthday on 24th December 1957.
Born in Liverpool, the son of Joseph Dickinson, FRCP, FRS. Educated at Liverpool Royal Institution School and Cheltenham College. Studied arts at Trinity College, Oxford, and medicine at Oxford, Edinburgh and St George's.
Qualified from Edinburgh in 1869. Held house appointments at St George's Hospital and at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Appointed physician to the Northern Hospital in Liverpool in 1872. Lecturer on comparative anatomy at the Royal Infirmary School of Medicine. Consulting physician to the School for the Blind.
Married twice, with a son and daughter from his first marriage and a son from his second marriage.
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Son of naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin and Emma Wedgwood. Studied mathematics and natural sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Francis registered as a pupil at St George's Hospital Medical School in 1870. He gained MB 1875, but never practiced medicine.
Like his father, he had a keen interest in plants and went on to become a botanist. He was particularly interested in phototropism and co-authored ‘The Power of Movement in Plants’ with his father in 1880. Fellow of the Linnean society of London and the Royal Society. Edited ‘The Autobiography of Charles Darwin’ (1887) as well as some correspondence of his father and Thomas Huxley’s ‘On the Reception of the Origin of Species’ (1887). He was awarded honorary doctorates by the Cambridge University as well as Dublin, Liverpool, Sheffield, Brussels, St Andrews, Uppsala and Prague. He was knighted in 1913.
Married three times: Amy Richenda Ruck in 1894 (she died in 1876 following the birth of their son), Married Ellen Wordsworth Crofts in 1883; they had one daughter, poet Frances Cornford. He married Florence Henrietta Fisher in 1913.
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