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Edward Charles Robson Roose

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Edward Charles Roose was born in London in 1848. He studied at Cambridge but left without a degree, later obtaining his MD from Brussels in 1877. He established his practice in Brighton, where he was physician to St John's Dispensary, before moving to London in 1885 and developing a large practice there. He died in London in 1905.
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William John Henry Lush

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William Lush was born circa 1851 in Damerham, Wiltshire, and trained initially at King's College London, registering in 1872 and gaining his MD from the University of Brussels in 1879. A general practitioner, he was based primarily in Andover, Hampshire, initially practising in partnership with Thelwall Pike as Pike and Lush until its dissolution in 1876. He was also a Fellow of the Linnean Society and the Obstetrical Society, and published several works, including 'Examination Papers for the Use of Medical Students' (1877). He died in Eastbourne in 1894.
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Alexander James

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Alexander James trained at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB CM in 1872 and MD in 1876. A member and sometime president of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and a member of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society, he began his career as Resident Physician and Resident Surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, before serving as House Surgeon at the Liverpool Infirmary for Children. He later lectured at the University of Edinburgh and returned to the Royal Infirmary as Consulting Physician, a post he held until his retirement in 1930.

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Charles Field Goldsbro

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Charles Field Goldsbro was born in Montgomery, Powys, Wales, in 1828. After working as House Surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital and as a medical officer at HM General Post Office, he earned his MB from the University of Edinburgh in 1860. He emigrated to New Zealand the same year and became the first recipient of an MD from the University of Sydney in 1868. Based in Auckland, he served as Coroner for the district's gaols and hospitals and as Medical Referee for the Royal and Australian Insurance Company. He was also a Justice of the Peace and president of the Auckland Medical Society, and died in 1883.
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James Foulis

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James Foulis was the son of Dr John Foulis of Sydney and grandson of the seventh baronet of Woodhall. Educated in Australia, he came to Scotland to study medicine, beginning at the University of Glasgow under Professors Allan Thomson and Joseph Lister, before transferring to the University of Edinburgh when Lister joined its staff. He graduated MB in 1872 and MD in 1874, his thesis 'On the Development of the Ova and Structure of the Ovary in Man and other Mammalia' winning a gold medal. After graduation, he became assistant to Dr Thomas Keith and later to his brother Dr George Keith, whom he succeeded in practice. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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Thomas Inglis

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Thomas Inglis trained at the University of Edinburgh and began his career in hospital posts, first as House Surgeon at the Royal Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh, and then as Assistant Physician at the Royal Asylum, Edinburgh. He later entered general practice, moving first to Northamptonshire, then to Lincoln, before spending around fifteen years in Buenos Aires at the turn of the twentieth century. On returning to the UK, he became Public Vaccinator and Medical Officer for the Isle of Wight Union workhouse. A member of the Harveian Society and the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society, he published several articles including 'On Myxoedema', 'On Chronic Chloral Poisoning', and 'On Hystero-Epilepsy'.
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Henry Jeckell Kendrick Vines

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Henry Jeckell Kendrick Vines studied at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, where he earned his LM in 1869 and won prizes in midwifery, medical jurisprudence, and toxicology. He also held certificates in anatomy, physiology, histology, practical chemistry, botany, and medicine, and authored several publications including 'Consumption, a Brief Popular Consideration of the Disease'. He held posts in Sussex including Physician at St Mary's Cottage Hospital, Surgeon to the East Sussex Constabulary, and Surgeon to the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company. He later emigrated to Australia, practising in Melbourne, Sydney, and Broome, Western Australia, before returning to Britain, where he died in London in 1919.
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George Heron Aitchison

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George Heron Aitchison graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1872 and became District Medical Officer for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company in Mexborough, Yorkshire. He returned to Edinburgh in 1877, when he was elected a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, becoming a Fellow the following year. He remained in Edinburgh until his death in 1881.
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Frederick Emmet Beck

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Frederick Emmet Beck earned his LM from Queen's College Belfast in 1861. Primarily a general practitioner, he also served as Medical Attendant to the Belfast Provisional Workers Lithographic Printers' Friendly Society, Medical Referee for the British Equitable Assurance Company, and Honorary Physician to the Belfast Benevolent Society of St Andrew. He was a Member of the British Medical Association and lived in Belfast until his death in 1896, aged fifty-two.
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William Milsted Harmer

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William Milsted Harmer, was proprietor of North Grove House Private Asylum in Hawkhurst, Kent. He studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen and followed his untrained father into the family business. After North Grove House was destroyed by fire, the asylum was relocated to Red House, Tonbridge, which Harmer ran until his death in 1895. He also served as Surgeon-Captain in the 2nd East Kent Volunteer Battalion.

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Also recorded as William Milsted-Harmer.