Robert Matthew Hay McMinn was a leading anatomist, who will always be associated with the medical atlas that bears his name. Known to his friends and colleagues as 'Bob', he was born on 20 September 1923 in Auchinleck, Ayrshire, the only child of Robert Martin McMinn, a local general practitioner, a

Born on May 27th, 1850, at Great Berkhamsted, the eldest son of George Dancer Thane, MD St Andrews, who practised in Hart Street, Bloomsbury. He entered University College, London, in 1867 and was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy to Professor G Viner Ellis (qv) in 1870, a year before he obtained th

Educated at Taunton and at the University of Edinburgh, and after graduating with brilliance was appointed an Extramural Lecturer on Anatomy at Minto House. Not only was he a first-rate teacher of anatomy, but he pursued anatomical research and published a number of important papers in the *Journal

Born at Croydon in 1870 he was educated at Chatham House College, Ramsgate, and at Charing Cross Hospital, London. Here he was house physician, house surgeon, assistant demonstrator of anatomy, acid surgical registrar. He then proceeded to Newcastle, where he was appointed assistant demonstrator of

Joseph Mendel Yoffey was a professor of anatomy at the University of Bristol and a pioneering investigator into lymphoid tissues and bone marrow. He was born in Manchester in 1902 into an orthodox Jewish family and was educated at Manchester Grammar School. He went on to study medicine at Manchester

Frank Roland Wilde was a senior anatomist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He studied medicine at Manchester University Medical School, qualifying in 1941. Prior to his appointment at Barts, he was a lecturer in anatomy at the Victoria University of Manchester, a surgical registrar at Ancoat

Born at Kendal, 18 October 1862, the fifth child of William Musgrove, draper, and Ruth Stramon, his wife. He was educated at Edinburgh, where he was house surgeon to John Chiene at the Royal Infirmary and demonstrator of anatomy under Sir William Turner at the University. In 1896 he was appointed le

Born 21 March 1858 the son of Fleet-Surgeon John Thomson, MD, RN, he was educated at the Edinburgh Collegiate School and at Edinburgh University. He served for several years as demonstrator of anatomy at the University, being appointed junior demonstrator in 1880, and acting as senior demonstrator u

Born at Chesterfield, the son of Peter Redfern, distinguished for scientific attainments; he was educated privately in classics, and then apprenticed for five years to Richard Collis Botham, who was Surgeon to the Chesterfield Union and Workhouse. Redfern and another apprentice, C E Black, who after

Born at Manchester in 1862, the son of the Rev J C Paterson, Presbyterian Minister; studied at the Manchester Grammar School and Owens College, then proceeded to Edinburgh, where he graduated MD brilliantly with a thesis on the "Spinal Nervous System of the Mammalia". He then acted as Demonstrator o

Born 9 June 1865, third and youngest son of Thomas H Gladstone, DPh and his wife Matilda, daughter of Joshua Field, FRS, a pioneer of large marine steam engines and one of the founders of the Institution of Civil Engineers. His father died when he was six. He was educated at Clapham Grammar School,

Born at Wigan, 24 February 1874, the second child and first son of Joseph Wright, clothier, and Agnes Rae, his wife, both parents being of Scottish extraction. He was educated at Wigan Grammar School and at Owen's College, Manchester. He practised for a short time as a general practitioner, in partn