William Ernest Allen, Lieut., R.N.R., 19 Manor Lane Terrace, London, S.E. 13

Lieut.-Genl. Sir William Leishman

K.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.B., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., IX.D., K.H.P., Dircctor-Gencral, Army Medical Scrvicc. The scientific world, the medical profession and the Royal Army Medical Corps sustained a great loss when on June 2nd, of this year Sir William Leishman died after a short illness. William Boog Leishman was born on November 6th, 1865; he was the son of Dr. William Leishman a professor of midwifery a...

Ernest William Hey Groves

An unrecorded William Allen caricature?

A CARICATURE relating to the marriage of William Allen, F.R.S., (1770-1843) to Grizell Birkbeck, widow of Wilson Birkbeck, has recently come to light. It bears the title 'THE ATTRACTION OF GRAVITY !!!, the space being filled with a plough (Allen's pharmacy was in Plough Court, Lombard Street, London) and the subheading: 'Eye Natures walks shoot Folly as it flies'. This coloured engraving, by an...

Ernest William Hey Groves and His Contributions to Orthopaedic Surgery

Ernest William Hey Groves was the son of an English civil engineer and was born in India on 20th June 1872. At the age of three, when his father retired, the family settled in Bristol. He inherited an aptitude for mechanics and took a B.Sc. in engineering. In London, while pursuing his science course, he saw an advertisement for a scholarship at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, which include...

Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 1856–1943

This biographical sketch on William Arbuthnot Lane corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: The Operative Treatment of Fractures, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-0860-4 .