For almost 200 years there had been a doctor resident in Bow. I was the twenty-ninth.
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THE MEDICAL GENTLEMEN OF BOW
Colebrooke
Windows of St Andrew's Church, Colebrooke for: John Woolcoombe Sillifant (1823-1869) Samuel Norrish (1813-1888)
Revd Isidore Daimpré (1841-1822) Francis Synge Sillifant (1832-1894) Surgeon
Commander Hugh Horatio Knocker (1829-1869), Conchologist
The Stone Brothers, wrestlers, and the "Little Elephant" killed in Australia. Rupert Gettliffe, surgeon from Derbyshire 1760s
James Screech (1833-1899) Convict sent to Western Australia William Couch Snell (1801-1878) Convict sent to Tasmania
John Jackman, almost transported to Australia in 1842 Thomas Bartow: 17th Century Doctor in Colebrooke and Crediton
Ann Pidsley of Great Wotton: Her 1807 wedding dress on display in Australia John Frost: 17th Century Member of the Chapel Royal
The Lee and Tucker family: all three sons emigrated to Australia where two of them became members of the Legislative Assembly in Victoria
