Born in Yorkshire, Thomas Laycock (1812–1876) served as an apprentice to a surgeon, following which he followed a medical course at University College, London. He obtained an MRCS in 1835; further study followed…
Born in London, the second son of Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria, Charles II succeeded to the throne in 1660. When the Duke of York was Commissioner in Scotland for his brother Charles II, Sir Robert Sibbald…
Born in Arbroath and educated in Dundee, Alexander Keiller attended medical classes in Edinburgh. He became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1833 and two years later Doctor of Medicine at St…
No one made a greater contribution to the control of tuberculosis than John Wenman Crofton (1912–2009). His early post-war work at the Postgraduate Medical School, London and the Brompton Hospital with the Medical…
Born in Edinburgh, John Taylor was the son of one of the earliest medical missionaries of the Church of England to India. He was educated at Edinburgh's High School and Edinburgh University, where he graduated in…
John Sibbald, a descendant of Sir Robert Sibbald, was born in Edinburgh and educated at Merchiston Castle School and Edinburgh University where he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1854. Following…
Born in Yorkshire of Scottish parents, John Richmond was educated at Doncaster Grammar School and Edinburgh University where he graduated with an MB ChB in 1948, a date coinciding with the inauguration of the National…