Anderson, Sir Thomas McCall (1836–1908), physician and dermatologist, was born at 159 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, on 9 June 1836. One of eight children, he was the second son of Alexander Dunlop Anderson (1794–1871), a medical practitioner in Glasgow and former president of the ...
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James Cooper
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Geoffrey L. Asherson
Bateman, Thomas (1778–1821), physician and dermatologist, was born on 29 April 1778 at Whitby, Yorkshire, the only son of a surgeon with a medical practice in the town. Educated there by a dissenting minister, at the age of eleven Bateman attended a private school at ...
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William A. Branford
Crocker, Henry Radcliffe- (1846–1909), dermatologist, was born Henry Radcliffe Crocker on 6 March 1846 at Western Road, Hove, Sussex, the son of Henry Radcliffe Crocker, a chemist and druggist, and his wife, Maria, formerly Walters. He was generally called by his middle name, ...
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Geoffrey L. Asherson
Fox, William Tilbury (1836–1879), physician and dermatologist, was a son of Luther Owen Fox (1811/12–1879) MD FRCS, of Broughton, Hampshire. He is usually referred to as Tilbury Fox; his brother, Thomas Colcott Fox (1849–1916), also became a dermatologist. Fox entered University College Hospital (UCH) medical school...
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Sir Archibald Montague Henry Gray (1880–1967) by Rodrigo Moynihan, 1956 by permission of the British Association of Dermatolgists, London
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W. N. Goldsmith
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Gray, Sir Archibald Montague Henry (1880–1967), dermatologist, was born on 1 February 1880 at Ottery St Mary, Devon, the son of Frederick Archibald Gray, a general practitioner, and his wife, Louisa Frances Waterworth; he was the only son and the eldest of four children. He was educated at ...
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Laurence M. Geary
Mapother, Edward Dillon (1835–1908), surgeon and dermatologist, was born on 14 October 1835 in Annadale Lodge, Fairview, Dublin, the son of Henry Mapother and Mary Lyons, both of co. Roscommon. His father was a bank official who disappeared from his office mysteriously and without trace....
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Norman Moore
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Neligan, John Moore (1815–1863), physician and dermatologist, was born in Clonmel, co. Tipperary. His father was a medical practitioner who died when he was young; his mother was Macella, daughter of William Hayes, of co. Limerick. Neligan graduated MD at Edinburgh in 1836, and practised in ...
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Mihail Dafydd Evans
O'Brien, Christopher Michael (1861–1935), physician and skin specialist, was born on Christmas day 1861 at St Ruth's, Milltown, co. Roscommon, the tenth of the thirteen children of Bartholomew O'Brien (1813–1889), farmer and poor-law guardian, and his wife, Kathleen Mary Hevehan. The O'Briens had long been established as prosperous farmers, millers, and merchants in and near ...
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R. H. Champion
Rook, Arthur James (1918–1991), dermatologist and author, was born on 15 May 1918 at Cobham, Surrey, the elder child of Sir William James Rook (1885–1958) and his first wife, Millicent, née Baker (1888–1939). His father, a successful sugar broker, was knighted for his services as director of sugar at the ...
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W. J. O'Donovan
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Sequeira, James Harry (1865–1948), dermatologist specializing in the treatment of venereal diseases, was born on 2 October 1865 at 34 Leman Street, Whitechapel, London, the son of James Scott Sequeira, a surgeon, and his wife, Maria Rosina Rackwitz. His forebears were said to have been physicians for six generations originating in ...
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Geoffrey L. Asherson
Walker, Sir Norman Purvis (1862–1942), dermatologist, was born at the Free Church manse, Dysart, Fife, on 2 August 1862, the only son of the Revd Dr Norman Macdonald Lockhart Walker, for many years editor of the journal of the Free Church of Scotland...
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Deborah Brunton
Willan, Robert (1757–1812), physician and dermatologist, was born on 12 November 1757 at Hill, near Sedbergh in Yorkshire, the younger son of Robert Willan (1717–1777), a man-midwife, and his wife, Ann Weatherald. He received his early education at Sedbergh grammar school where he became an accomplished classicist. In 1777 ...
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Sir (William James) Erasmus Wilson (1809–1884) by Alexander Scott, pubd 1873 (after Stephen Pearce, exh. RA 1872) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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D'A. Power
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Wilson, Sir (William James) Erasmus (1809–1884), dermatologist and philanthropist, generally known as Erasmus Wilson, was born on 25 November 1809 in the house of his Norwegian maternal grandfather, Erasmus Brandsdorph, in High Street, Marylebone, Middlesex. His father, William Wilson, a Royal Navy surgeon, was born in ...
