Fayrer, Sir Joseph, first baronet (1824–1907), surgeon and physician, was born at Plymouth on 6 December 1824, the second son of the six sons and two daughters of Commander Robert John Fayrer RN (1788–1869), and his wife, Agnes (d. 1861), daughter of ...
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Fayrer, Sir Joseph, first baronet (1824–1907), surgeon and physician
H. P. Cholmeley
revised by W. F. Bynum
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King [alias Freeman], Sir Edmund (bap. 1630, d. 1709), physician and surgeon
Robert L. Martensen
King [alias Freeman], Sir Edmund (bap. 1630, d. 1709), physician and surgeon, the eldest son of the five sons and four daughters of Edmond King (d. 1651) of Northampton, physician, and Alice, was baptized as Edmond on 22 August 1630 in ...
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Lind, James (1716–1794), naval surgeon and physician
Michael Bartholomew
Lind, James (1716–1794), naval surgeon and physician, was born in Edinburgh on 4 October 1716, the son of James Lind, a merchant, and his wife, Margaret Smelholme (Smellum), a member of an Edinburgh medical family. (He is not to be confused with his cousin ...
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Thomson, John (1765–1846), physician and surgeon
D'A. Power
revised by Anita McConnell
Thomson, John (1765–1846), physician and surgeon, was born at Paisley, Renfrewshire, on 15 March 1765, the son of Joseph Thomson, a silk weaver, and his wife, Mary, formerly Millar. At the age of eleven Thomson was bound apprentice to his father for seven years. His father destined him for the ministry; the boy, however, wished to study medicine, and persuaded his father to apprentice him in 1785 to ...
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Turner, Daniel (1667–1741), surgeon and physician
Philip K. Wilson
Turner, Daniel (1667–1741), surgeon and physician, was born, probably in London, on 18 September 1667, the third son of John Turner (d. 1697), a freeman of London's Tallow-Chandlers' Company, and his wife, Rebecca. Turner was admitted into the freedom on the surgeons' side of the ...
