Baillie, Matthew (1761–1823), morbid anatomist and physician, was born on 27 October 1761 at Shotts manse, Lanarkshire, the second but only surviving son of James Baillie (c.1722–1778) and his wife, Dorothea (c.1721–1806). They had an elder daughter, and also one younger, ...
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Baillie, Matthew (1761–1823), morbid anatomist and physician
John Jones
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Clarke, Sir Cyril Astley (1907–2000), physician and medical scientist
D. J. Weatherall
Clarke, Sir Cyril Astley (1907–2000), physician and medical scientist, was born on 22 August 1907 at 37 London Road, Leicester, the only son and second of the three children of Astley Vavasour Clarke (1870–1945), physician, and his wife, Ethel Mary (1872–1966), daughter of ...
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Down, John Langdon Haydon Langdon- (1828–1896), physician and expert in mental science
James Ogden
revised by Mathew Thomson
Down, John Langdon Haydon Langdon- (1828–1896), physician and expert in mental science, was born in Torpoint, Cornwall, on 18 November 1828, the youngest of seven children (three daughters and four sons) of Joseph Almond Down (d. 1853), apothecary, and his wife, Hanna Haydon...
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Harvey, William (1578–1657), physician and discoverer of the circulation of the blood
Roger French
Harvey, William (1578–1657), physician and discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was born on 1 April 1578 at Folkestone, Kent. His father, Thomas (1549–1623), and his second wife, Joan (1556–1605), née Halke, had two daughters, Sarah (1580–1591) and Amy (b. 1596)...
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Highmore, Nathaniel (1613–1685), chemical physician and anatomist
Malcolm Oster
Highmore, Nathaniel (1613–1685), chemical physician and anatomist, was born on 6 February 1613 at Fordingbridge, Hampshire, the elder son of Nathaniel Highmore, rector of Purse Caundle, a village near Sherborne in Dorset. Educated at Sherborne School and Trinity College, Oxford, Highmore graduated BA (1635) and MA (1638) with the aid of a scholarship at ...
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Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife
Helen Brock
Hunter, William (1718–1783), physician, anatomist, and man-midwife, was born on 23 May 1718 at Long Calderwood, East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, the seventh of ten children of John Hunter (d. 1741), farmer, and Agnes (d. 1751), a woman of wide education, daughter of ...
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Mackenzie, Sir James (1853–1925), physician and medical researcher
F. B. Smith
Mackenzie, Sir James (1853–1925), physician and medical researcher, was the second son and one of the seven children of Robert Mackenzie (1816–1898), a farmer, and his wife, Jean Campbell Menzies (d. 1892). He was born at his father's farm of Pictstonhill at ...
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Nicholls, Francis [Frank] (bap. 1699?, d. 1778), anatomist and physician
Anita Guerrini
Nicholls, Francis [Frank] (bap. 1699
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Rolleston, George (1829–1881), physician and physiologist
Alex Paton
Rolleston, George (1829–1881), physician and physiologist, was born on 30 July 1829 at Maltby Hall, near Rotherham, the second son of George Rolleston (1791–1868), squire and vicar of Maltby, and his wife, Anne Nettleship (d. 1851). William Rolleston was his younger brother. Educated initially by his father, he was able to read from ...
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Todd, Robert Bentley (1809–1860), physician and physiologist
Carol Helmstadter
Todd, Robert Bentley (1809–1860), physician and physiologist, was born in Dublin on 9 April 1809, the second son of Charles Hawkes Todd (1782–1826), professor of anatomy and surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and his wife, Eliza Bentley (1786–1862), daughter of a colonel in the Indian army. His father was a distinguished surgeon and teacher, an editor of the ...
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Tyson, Edward (1651–1708), physician and anatomist
Anita Guerrini
Tyson, Edward (1651–1708), physician and anatomist, was born in the parish of St Nicholas, Bristol, on 20 January 1651, the second surviving son of Edward Tyson (d. 1667), mercer and later mayor of Bristol, and Margaret, daughter of the iron master Richard Foley (1579/80–1657)...
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Weatherall, Sir David John (1933–2018), physician and medical scientist
Jonathan Flint
Weatherall, Sir David John (1933–2018), physician and medical scientist, was born at Liverpool Maternity Hospital on 9 March 1933, the younger son of Harry Weatherall (1902–1973), analytical chemist, and his wife, Gwendoline Charlotte Miriam, née Tharme (1903–1985). At the time of his birth registration the family lived at ...
