sentences:  He attended the Wesleyan Academy on Woodhouse Grove in West Yorkshire.At the age of fifteen, Laycock trained as an apprentice surgeon-apothecary under a Mr. Spence.He went on to study at the University College in London and furthered his training in Paris in 1834 for two more years, where his instructors included Alfred Armand Velpeau (1795–1867) and Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787–1872), renowned as an initiator of statistics.