Born in New Zealand on 26 April 1902, only son of Robert Mill of the Bank of New Zealand he was brought to London at an early age and was educated at Whitgift School and Guy's Hospital qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1924 and graduating MB BS with honours two years later. During his career a

Charles Chubb was the son of a civil engineer and he was educated at St Paul's School and at University College London, where he graduated in 1901 with first-class honours in zoology, and was Jodrell gold medallist in comparative anatomy. Chubb served as a demonstrator and lecturer in the College's

Chapple Gill-Carey was born in 1896 at Hawera, New Zealand, the son of a farmer from Lancashire, his maternal grandfather being a physician at Wanganui. After attending Wanganui Collegiate School, he went to Guy's Hospital in 1913 and passed the Conjoint Diploma in May 1918. He immediately joined th

Born on August 12, 1899 at Chequerbent, Bolton, he went to Bolton School and on leaving in 1917 he joined the army being accepted for service in the Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps. He became a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and on demobilization in 1919 he entered Manchester Univer

Percy Winston, the second child and only son of Joseph Winston, a furrier, was born in London on 5 February 1922. He was educated at the Grocers' Company Grammar School and then went to the London Hospital Medical College. He qualified in 1945 and took several resident appointments before entering t

William Daggett, the only son of a Yorkshire general practitioner, was born at Boroughbridge on 2 October, 1900. From a preparatory school at Marston Moor he went as an exhibitioner to Sedberg School and then to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. After securing a first class Natural Science Trip

Eric Miles Atkinson was born in London on 28 April 1895 and was educated at Epsom College. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1912 but his medical studies were interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914 when he served as a motorcycle despatch rider with the British Expeditionary Force in France

Born in Dunedin on 27 January 1924, Neil Little was educated at John McGlashan College and Otago Medical School, graduating in 1948. After house appointments in Otago and Invercargill and a registrarship in Dunedin, he proceeded to the United Kingdom. Here he studied and gained experience at Willesd

'Zammy' or 'Zam' as he was known to colleagues and friends was born in Colombia, South America, on 13 January 1887 and came to school in England, to Tonbridge and to Cambridge University. His subsequent medical education was at Guy's Hospital, London, where he qualified in 1912. To his disgust when

Joseph Norman Appleton qualified in medicine in Manchester in 1938. He practised in the aural department of Manchester Royal Infirmary. Moving to London he was registrar to the Royal Ear Hospital and University College Hospital. He became a Fellow of the College in 1949. He returned to Manchester

Nehemiah Asherson was born in South Africa in 1897, the son of Isaac Asherson and was educated initially at the University of Cape Town before coming to England in 1919, entering University College Hospital Medical School and qualifying in 1923 after gaining the Liston and Bruce Medal. He undertook

Francis McGuckin graduated MB, BS from the University of Durham in 1926, obtained the FRCS Ed in 1930 and the MD with Gold Medal in 1935. He was ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Royal Victoria Infirmary and formerly lecturer in otolaryngology at King's College Medical School in Newcastle-upon-Tyn