Edward Liveing (1832–1919) was the son of a medical practitioner, and was born at Nayland, Suffolk. He studied medicine at King’s College, London, and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1854 he went to Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated in mathematics and medicine, and in 1859 he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians. He became an assistant physician at King’s College Hospital in 1860, and was later consulting physician to the Marylebone General Dispensary. Liveing was assistant registrar of the RCP for three years before becoming registrar in 1889. When he retired in 1909 he received the honorary title of Emeritus Registrar. This portrait was painted by Walter William Ouless (1848–1933), a British portrait painter from Jersey.