Born near Doncaster, the son of a country gentleman. Studied art in Paris, intending to become a painter, but chose to study surgery instead.

Student at St George's Hospital Medical School. House surgeon 1838, demonstrator of anatomy and the first curator of the museum at St George's Hospital, possibly in 1840[?]. Hewett set up the system for recording post mortem examinations at the hospital. Lecturer on anatomy 1845. Assistant surgeon 1848-1861, surgeon 1861-1875, consulting surgeon 1875-1891.

FRCS 1843. President of the Pathological Society of London and the Clinical Society. Arris and Gale Professor of Human Anatomy and Physiology, member of the council, chairman of the Board of Examiners in Midwifery, vice-president and president of the Royal College of Surgeons. Surgeon-extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1867, sergeant-surgeon extraordinary 1877 and sergeant-surgeon following Caesar Hawkins 1884. Surgeon to Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII. Baronet 1883.

Specialisms: Anatomy, head injuries.

Married Sarah Cowell in 1849; they had two daughters and one son. Died 19 Jun 1891 at Horsham, where he had retired to. He gifted his collection of water colour paintings 'to the nation' in 1891.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Educated at the Great Windmill Street School and St George’s Hospital. On his application as an assistant surgeon at St George’s in 1834, however, he was turned down in favour of Edward Cutler. Feeling he had been unfairly treated because Cutler was a relative of Benjamin Collins Brodie, Lane founded a rival anatomical school nearby at Grosvenor Place; the school soon became popular and was one of the schools attended by the pupils from St George’s Hospital.

Lane became senior surgeon to St Mary’s Hospital soon after its establishment in 1852, and Lane transferred his pathological and anatomical collections to the new school at St Mary’s Hospital. He also worked at the Lock Hospital. He was one of the original 300 fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons, and a member of the Council. He was also a fellow, member of the Council and vice-president of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society.

He was known as a skilled surgeon, and was one of the first to practice ovariotomy. He also performed the first successful blood transfer to treat haemophilia in 1840. He published a series of well-received articles on syphilis, however, being opposed to medical specialisms he refused to continue publishing on the subject.

He retired to Ealing, and died 2 Aug 1892, aged 90. His nephew James Robert Lane and his great-nephew James Ernest Lane continued his work at St Mary’s Hospital and with syphilis.

Born in Surrey, son of Henrik (Harry) Kellgren, a Swedish medical practitioner, and Vera Dumclunksen, a Russian refugee. The Kellgren family had been involved in massage and spa treatments, and Kellgren’s father Harry and uncle established a branch of the business in Eton Square, London. His father died in the influenza pandemic of 1919.

Although the business failed, Kellgren’s medical education was paid for by a grateful patient. He studied at Bedales School, St George’s Hospital Medical School (he enrolled in 1898) and the University College Medical School. His brother Ernst Gregor was also a student at St George’s.

Held house posts at University College Hospital. Research fellow with Sir Thomas Lewis 1937-39; in 1938 won a travelling scholarship to study physical medicine in Scandinavia where he examined the concept of ‘referred pain’. During the second world war, he worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital, which had been evacuated to Hemel Hempstead; he also worked at Leavesden Hospital in Hertfordshire operating on the Dunkirk survivors. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in North Africa and Italy.

After the war he joined the Medical Research Council and researched peripheral nerve injuries at the Winfield Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in Oxford, before returning to his career as a physician. He was appointed the clinical director to the University of Manchester Centre for Research in Chronic Rheumatism. In 1953 he was appointed professor of rheumatology at Manchester, and he was dean of the medical school 1968-1973. He studied osteoarthritis, and was interested in developing teaching programmes and medical education, including serving on the Flowers’ committee reviewing London medical schools and postgraduate institutes in 1984. He was an adviser to the World Health Organisation and president of the Heberden Society.

Married Ruth Rushton; they had one daughter and divorced in 1940. Married Thelma Reynolds in 1942; they had four daughters. He died 22 Feb 2002.

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 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.

Pupil at St George's in 1757 under William Bromfeild.

Born in Stockport, the son of a merchant and manufacturer. Educated at Macclesfield Grammar School and Edinburgh University, and briefly at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Graduated in 1825, and spent a year in Paris and touring Europe. LRCP 1828.

Private practice in London. Physician to the Marylebone Infirmary in 1831.

Assistant physician at St George's Hospital 1834-1839, physician 1839-1841. Lecturer at St George's Medical School and at Aldersgate Street Medical School.

Specialisms: Heart. Early exponent of auscultation. Principal publication 'A Treatise on the diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels', 1832 and 'Principles and Illustrations of Morbid Anatomy 1833-1834.

Married historian Anne Fulton. They had one son, Theodore Hope. Died of tuberculosis in 1835, aged 34.

Enrolled as a student in August 1796 under Everard Home. After 1799 he took up surgical posts at the Duke of York Hospital, Chelsea, St. Pancras’ Infirmary, and the National Vaccine Institution. He achieved fame as an anatomical tutor with a private school of anatomy in Dean Street, Soho. His bust by William Behnes was bequeathed to St. George’s Hospital by his daughter Emma Carpue who also left the hospital £6,500. He died in 1846 following an accident on the South-Western railway from which he never recovered.

Born in Kingston-upon-Hull, son of Robert Home, army surgeon, and Mary. Educated at Westminster School. Studied medicine at St George's under John Hunter, his brother-in-law, who was married to Home's sister Anne Home. Assisted Hunter in his anatomical examinations, and described his collections, as well as plagiarizing Hunter's work and destroying Hunter's papers to hide evidence of his plagiarism.

Surgeon to the naval hospital at Plymouth. Surgeon to St George's Hospital and Chelsea Hospital. Lecturer on anatomy. Sergeant Surgeon to the King. Made baronet in 1813. Fellow of the Royal Society. Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Joined the army in Flanders in 1793, but returned home following Hunter's death in 1793.

Described the fossil later known as Ichthyhosaur discovered near Lyme Regis by Mary Anning and Joseph Anning in 1812. Published widely on human and animal anatomy.

Home lived with his sister and brother-in-law at their home in Leicester Square, London before marrying Jane Thompson.

Born in Philadelphia, USA. Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1785, after which he continued his studies in London at St George's under John Hunter.

House surgeon at St George's Hospital 1790. Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1791. Moved to Edinburgh, where he received his MD in 1792. Returned to Philadelphia to work at the Pennsylvania Hospital, where he was during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. Elected member of the American Philosophical Society in 1802.

He performed the first human blood transfusion in 1795, although he did not publish on it. He pioneered the use of stomach pump and used autopsy as a method for observation and discovery. He specialised in cataract surgery, and designed multiple surgical instruments, including the needle forceps, guillotine for performing tonsillectomies and improved splints for treating disclocations. He is often known as the 'Father of American Surgery'.

Surgeon to St George's Hospital 1760-1768.

Translated Le Dran's 'Surgery'. Published on anatomy and surgery.

Born in Limerick, Ireland. His father, Charles, was an attorney, his mother was Margaret nee Foley.

He was educated at St George's College, Weybridge, King's College, London and St George's Hospital where he held junior posts and was resident assistant surgeon. He was clinical assistant at St Mark's Hospital, where he was influenced by W B Gabriel. His war service was with the RAF, in which he reached the rank of wing commander.

His principal appointment was to Lincoln County Hospital. He wrote articles on Crohn's disease, Fournier's gangrene and ileus following gastrectomy.

In 1943 he married Kathleen Maddocks and they had one son, Charles, who qualified in medicine in 1968.

St George’s Pathology Museum was established in 1843, when Sir Benjamin Brodie presented his pathological specimen collection to St George’s in 1843, and during the 1840s Robert Keate, Caesar Hawkins and Robert Lee added further specimens in the collections.

Prescott Hewett was appointed the first curator, and he also introduced the practice of keeping post mortem books. The curator of the museum was also responsible for conducting post mortem examinations together with the assistant curator, and the post mortem casebooks frequently refer to pathological specimens preserved in the museum. Specimens were regularly obtained from post mortem examinations or during surgery at the hospital, and the museum has continued to be an integral part of teaching at St George's.

Established by a former student of St George’s, Samuel Armstrong Lane after being rejected from the post of assistant surgeon at St George’s Hospital in 1834. The school was housed at the back of Lane’s house on 1 Grosvenor Place, near St George’s Hospital on Hyde Park Corner, and soon became known as the School of Anatomy and Medicine adjoining St George’s Hospital. The school was in competition with the Kinnerton Street School, formally established in 1836, which became the official medical school for St George’s; pupils at the hospital could attend either of these schools, as well as a number of other anatomical schools. Lane became senior surgeon to St Mary’s Hospital soon after its establishment in 1852, and Lane transferred his pathological and anatomical collections to the new school at St Mary’s Hospital. Lane’s school closed down in 1863.

Son of James Wilson, surgeon and teacher of anatomy at the Hunterian School in Great Windmill Street. Educated at St Peter's College, Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1815; AM 1818, MB 1819 and MD 1823. Travelled and worked in Europe in the 1820s, including in Italy as physician to lord and lady Spencer in 1819-1820.

Physician at St George's Hospital 1829-1857, consulting physician 1868-1882, lecturer in anatomy.

Fellow and censor of the Royal College of Physicians 1825; Lumleian lecturer and Harveian orator. Retired 1868; lived in South Holmwood, Dorking. Died 29 Dec 1882.

Born in Lanarkshire 27 Oct 1761, the son of Rev James Baillie (subsequently professor of divinity at the University of Glasgow) and Dorothea Hunter, sister of William and John Hunter. His sister was poet Joanna Baillie. Educated at Hamilton. Student at University of Glasgow and Balliol College, University of Oxford from 1779. Graduated AB 1783, AM 1786, MB 1786, MD 1789.

Baillie spent his holidays in London staying with his uncle William Hunter, and studied anatomy at St George's under his uncle John Hunter, as well as assisting him on his lectures and demonstrations and supervised students making dissections. On the death of William Hunter, Baillie inherited £5,000, Hunter's house on Great Windmill Street and the use of Hunter's museum until 30 years from Hunter's death, as well as a small estate in Scotland, which he gave to John Hunter. Baillie lectured at the school from 1783-84 to 1799 or 1803.

He was appointed physician at St George's Hospital in 1787. Candidate of the Royal College of Physicians 1789, fellow 1790; censor in 1791 and 1796, elect 1809. Honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh 1809. Fellow of the Royal Society. Baillie succeeded his friends David Pitcairn and Dr Warren to practice, which grew so rapidly that he resigned his appointment at St George's as well as giving up on teaching anatomy, devoting himself to his medical practice. Appointed physician extraordinary to George III and in 1814 physician in ordinary to Princess Charlotte. Declined baronetcy for his services to the king.

Published widely on anatomy and pathology; his 'The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body', published in 1793, is considered the first systematic study of pathology, and the first publication in English on pathology as a separate subjects. He is credited with identifying transposition of the great vessels (TGV) and situs inversus.

Married Sophia Denman, daughter of physician Thomas Denman, an alumnus of St George's. Retired to Gloucestershire, where he died 23 Sep 1823, aged 62 after briefly suffering from inflammation of the mucous membrane of the trachea. His wife Sophia died in 1845, aged 74.

Surgeon at St George's Hospital 1744-1780. Surgeon to King George III. Surgeon and one of the founders of the Lock Hospital. Governor of St George's Hospital. President of St George's Hospital.

Published on surgery and anatomy.

Studied medicine at the Middlesex Hospital under Sir Charles Bell. He purchased in 1826 with Caesar Hawkins Bell's interest in the Hunterian or Great Windmill Street School of Medicine, where he acted as a lecturer in anatomy; he was assisted by George Gisborne Babington. The number of pupils declined, however, and Mayo attempted to sell the school to Samuel Lane and James Arthur Wilson, but without success, and some pupils from the Great Windmill Street School were transferred to Lane's newly established school of medicine adjoining St George's Hospital in 1831.

Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital (1827-1842). Professor of comparative anatomy and surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons and professor of anatomy, physiology and pathological anatomy at King's College London. Established a medical school at the Middlesex Hospital.

Mayo campaigned for the introduction of anatomy legislation, resulting in the Anatomy Act of 1832, which regulated the anatomical market by legislating that the unclaimed bodies of paupers could be legally used for dissection. Prior to this, the only legal source for cadavers had been those of convicted criminals, which had led to a large demand for cadavers and bodysnatching.

Known for describing skin disease now known as Addison's disease.

Attended lectures on surgery at St George's in 1816.