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William Wilberforce Dunkley

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William Wilberforce Dunkley trained in Liverpool, becoming a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1872. He worked in Coventry and Stoke-on-Trent and served as a Surgeon on the SS Lord Clive. He later became Government Surgeon Superintendent for the New Zealand Government Emigration Service and subsequently held an equivalent post for the Queensland Government. He also served as Surgeon at Waitangi Hospital and Barracks in New Zealand and as Physician to Victoria Hospital, Guernsey. He was active in the St John Ambulance Association as a Lecturer and Surgical Examiner and worked for several assurance companies in the United Kingdom. He died in Cornwall in 1913 aged sixty-five.
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Alexander Somerville Cumming

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Alexander Somerville Cumming trained and worked in Edinburgh. He earned his MB CM from the University of Edinburgh in 1884 and his MD in 1888, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in the same year. He held hospital posts in the city, including Junior House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary and Extra Physician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. He also served as Physician to the New Town Dispensary and as Lecturer and Clinical Instructor in Diseases of Children at the Medical College for Women. He retired in 1915 and died in 1938.
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Robert Milne Murray

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Robert Milne Murray was the son of a schoolteacher from Aberdeen. After completing an MA at the University of St Andrews, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, earning his MB CM in 187. He began his career as an Assistant to Sir John Halliday Croom, which influenced his later specialisation in obstetrics. He was a long-term Lecturer in Diseases of Women at the Edinburgh School of Medicine and worked as a Physician in this field at several Edinburgh hospitals. He developed a number of electrical devices for medical use, which he released without patent. He died in 1904 aged forty-eight following pneumonia.
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John Thornton Duncan

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John Thornton Duncan trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, becoming a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1877. He became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1880 and a Fellow in 1886. He worked as a Surgeon at several hospitals, including Swansea General Hospital and Truesdale's Hospital in Stamford, Lincolnshire. He also served as Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator to the Stamford Union. A Justice of the Peace for Stamford, he served as Mayor in 1886 till 1887.
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Ormond Haldane Garland

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Ormond Haldane Garland, the son of a Bailie of the burgh of Leith, trained in Edinburgh, earning his MB CM in 1868 and his MD in 1888. After a short period as Resident Surgeon at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, he spent most of his career as Surgeon to the Leith Police, also acting as an ambulance instructor. This work led to his election as an Honorary Life Member of the St Andrew's Ambulance Association. He lectured on Clinical Medicine at the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women and published an early medical account of cocaine poisoning in The Lancet in 1895. He died in 1911 following a prolonged illness.
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Adolphus Edward Bridger

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Adolphus Edward Bridger earned his MB CM from the University of Edinburgh in 1878, followed by his MD in 1880 and a BSc from the University of Paris in 1881. He worked at several London hospitals, including the Hospital for Women, the Royal Dental Hospital, and the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest. He later served as Consulting Physician for Tuberculosis to the borough of St Pancras and as Senior Physician to the St Pancras Dispensary. He published several books, including 'The Demon of Dyspepsia', 'Digestion, Perfect and Imperfect', and 'Man and His Maladies'. He died in Middlesex in 1920.
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Stephen Coull Mackenzie

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Stephen Coull Mackenzie was born in Calcutta and trained at the University of Edinburgh, earning his MD in 1864. He began his career as House Surgeon at Chalmers Hospital, Edinburgh, before joining the Bengal Army, where he rose to the rank of Brigade Surgeon-Lieutenant Colonel. Alongside his military service, he served as Professor of Hygiene and Medical Jurisprudence at the Medical College, Calcutta, and as House Surgeon at the College Hospital. He published several articles in Indian medical journals, many of which were later collected in 'Medico-Legal Experience in Calcutta' (1891). He died in Darjeeling in 1893.

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Also written as Stephen Coul Mackenzie.

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Charles Orton

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Charles Orton was educated at King's College London and the University of Edinburgh. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London in 1862, and a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1865. He earned his MD from the University of Durham in 1881. He lived and worked primarily in Staffordshire, serving first as House Surgeon and later as Consulting Physician at the North Staffordshire Infirmary. He also served with the 4th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, retiring with the rank of Surgeon Major. In 1870 he co-authored 'What We Observed During a Visit to the Seat of War' with W D Spanton, describing medical conditions during the Franco-Prussian War. He was President of the Staffordshire Branch of the British Medical Association and a member of its Parliamentary Bills Committee.
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Alfred Boyle Thompson

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Alfred Boyle Thompson was educated at Queen's University Belfast and was a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London, a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He was a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple and served as Medical Officer to the Law Clerks Society and the Incorporated Law Society. He also acted as Medical Examiner to the School Board for London and the Norwich Union Insurance Society. He died in 1893.
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Alfred James Atkinson

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Alfred James Atkinson trained at University College London. He became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London in 1870 and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1871. He worked primarily as a Medical Officer, first at the East London Hospital for Children and Dispensary for Women, and later at the Farnham Union Workhouse in Surrey.

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Also recorded as Alfred James Aitkenson.