Michael Waistell Taylor

He was appointed assistant to Professor John Hutton Balfour, and was also one of the founders and early presidents of the Hunterian Medical Society.

[1] During 1844 Taylor studied surgery at Paris for nine months, and then visited European cities collecting botanical specimens.

In 1868 he assisted in founding the border counties branch of the British Medical Association, and was the second to hold the office of president.

[1] Taylor as an antiquary made local discoveries: the vestiges of Celtic occupation on Ullswater, the starfish cairns of Moor Divock, the prehistoric remains at Clifton, and the Croglin moulds for casting spear-heads in bronze.

[1] Taylor was the author of medical treatises on subjects, and in 1881 wrote a substantial article on the fungoid nature of diphtheria.