Beeson, Paul Bruce (1908–2006), physician, was born at 112 South Sixth Street, Livingston, Montana, USA, on 18 October 1908, the second son of John Bradley Beeson (1872–1969), surgeon and general practitioner, and his wife, Martha Gerard, née Ash (1878–1969), schoolteacher, and daughter of ...
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Beeson, Paul Bruce (1908–2006), physician
John G. G. Ledingham
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Comfort, Alexander [Alex] (1920–2000), physician and writer
Tom Arie
Comfort, Alexander [Alex] (1920–2000), physician and writer, was born on 10 February 1920 at 21 Palmerston Crescent, Edmonton, Middlesex, the only son of Alexander Charles Comfort (1882/3–1975), an education officer for the London county council, and his wife, Daisy Elizabeth, née Fenner (...
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Doll, Sir (William) Richard Shaboe (1912–2005), physician and epidemiologist
Richard Peto and Valerie Beral
Doll, Sir (William) Richard Shaboe (1912–2005), physician and epidemiologist, was born at 15 Park Road, Hampton Hill, Middlesex, on 28 October 1912, the elder son of Henry William Doll, physician and surgeon, and his wife, Amy Kathleen, née Shaboe, concert pianist. He was educated at ...
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Elliotson, John (1791–1868), physician and mesmerist
Alan Gauld
Elliotson, John (1791–1868), physician and mesmerist, was born on 24 October 1791 in Southwark, London, the son of John Elliotson, a prosperous apothecary and chemist, and his wife, Elizabeth. He was educated privately and (from 1805) at Edinburgh University, where he received the degree of MD in 1810; he became LRCP (...
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Godber, Sir George Edward (1908–2009), physician
Stephen Lock
Godber, Sir George Edward (1908–2009), physician, was born on 4 August 1908 at 18 Bedford Road, Kempston, Bedfordshire, the eldest son in the family of seven children of Isaac Godber (1874–1957), market gardener, and his wife, Bessie Maud, née Chapman (1883/4–1957), florist. A younger brother, ...
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Himsworth, Sir Harold Percival (1905–1993), physician
John Gray
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Himsworth, Sir Harold Percival (1905–1993), physician, was born on 19 May 1905 in Huddersfield, the son of (Joseph) Arnold Himsworth (d. c.1959), a businessman, and his wife, Amy Eliza, née Barraclough (c.1880–1962). Harry, as he was always called, had a struggle to get a good education, but from ...
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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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Monsey, Messenger (bap. 1694, d. 1788), physician
J. F. Payne
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Monsey, Messenger (bap. 1694, d. 1788), physician, was baptized in the parish of Hackford with Whitwell, Norfolk, on 30 October 1694, the eldest son of Robert Monsey, sometime rector of Bawdeswell, Norfolk, but ejected as a nonjuror, and his wife, Mary, daughter of the ...
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Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik (1857–1949), physician and author
Alex Paton
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik (1857–1949), physician and author, was born on 31 October 1857 at Oskarshamn, Sweden, youngest of the three children of Martin Fredrik Munthe (1816–1877), apothecary, and his second wife, Aurora Louisa Uparsky (d. 1889). His forebears were wealthy landowners from ...
