For members of the Medical Profession the records of their respective universities will supply information, and there is a printed work, the Roll of the College of Physicians, by Dr. George Munk, the Registrar of that College, which gives additional biographical details.
Lists of members of the Royal College of Surgeons and of Dental Practitioners can also be consulted.
Records connected with Barristers and the Bar are preserved in Lincoln’s Inn, the Middle and Inner Temple, and Gray’s Inn.
For Attorneys and Solicitors reference should be made to the Rolls and Catalogues of Attorneys, also the Admission Books giving dates, names, and residences; the latter extend from 1729 to 1848. These documents can be looked up in the Record Office.
Here, also, the papers formerly preserved in the War Office are now kept. This series, which is valuable if particulars connected with the Army are required, dates from 1700, but its Muster Rolls only from 1760.
There are army lists and muster rolls to be found in other places also. Sims (who has been referred to previously) enumerates these records, and mentions where they are now kept.
Several old Navy Lists can be found in the British Museum, and the Navy Office keeps registers of the officers and men, with date and place of their deaths. The ages of the men are also entered.
Universities, though their lists of graduates are published, have treasures of information only obtainable at first hand. So, where one or more of these is likely to prove valuable, their records should, if possible, be searched. These are principally the Books of Admission to the different colleges, the university, Matriculation Books, and the Degree Books.
These give details of parentage and many other items.