Simon Wapnick was an anatomist based in New York. He was born on 25 October 1937 in Pretoria, South Africa, the son of Percy Jacob Wapnick and Fanny née Levitt. He was educated at Pretoria Boys’ High School and then went on to the University of Pretoria Medical School. He held house appointments at

Born on September 25th, 1812, the second son of Viner Ellis, of Duni House, Minsterworth, near Gloucester, where his family had for many years been landowners. He was educated at the Crypt Grammar School, and then at the Cathedral Grammar School, and was afterwards apprenticed to Dr Buchanan, of Glo

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

Ian Urquhart Fraser was an anatomy lecturer in London. He was born in Bangkok in 1926. During the Second World War he served in the Army and, in 1945, was based in Germany. Following his demobilisation, he returned to Britain to begin his studies as a medical student at King's College, London. Foll

William James Hamilton was born in County Antrim on 21 July 1903 and educated at Queen's University, Belfast, where he took the BSc with first-class honours in 1926 and obtained first place and first-class honours in the final medical examinations in 1929. He proceeded MSc in 1931 and went to Glasgo

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

Born 14 May 1851 at the Manse of Auchindoir on Donside, Aberdeenshire, the sixth child and third son of the Rev William Reid and Elizabeth Mary Scott, his wife. He attended the village school at Lumsden and afterwards for a few months in 1866 the Aberdeen Grammar School, and then went to King's Coll

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

Mary Frances Lucas was born on 15 August 1885, in Gravesend, the daughter of George John Lucas, who was a dental surgeon. She attended Rochester Grammar School for Girls and Eversley School, Folkestone. She entered the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women in the 1904/5 sessio

Born at Dunse, in Scotland. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and went to America in 1830, where he studied medicine in the University Medical School, New York. Here he took his degree, devoting his time to the study and teaching of anatomy, in which subject he obtained a considerable

Born at Birmingham, the younger son of Edward Grainger, surgeon. His elder brother, Edward (1797-1824), was the well-known founder of the Webb Street School, one of the most flourishing of the private medical schools in London. Richard Grainger entered the Military Academy at Woolwich as a cadet,

The son of a medical man practising at Dover, he entered Guy's Hospital in 1824 after an education in London and Paris. He practised in Bedford Square, and at the time of his death was Lecturer on Pathological Anatomy at Guy's Hospital, where he contributed much to the *Guy's Hospital Reports*, writ