Born 6 April 1863 at Spilsby, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of the Rev Charles George Ridley, who came from Kimbolton, and Mary Vine, his wife. He was educated at Boston Grammar School and at St Mary's Hospital, where he gained scholarships in natural science and pathology. He acted subsequently as h

Born in Bristol he was educated at Clifton College and Bristol medical school where he gained a scholarship. In 1913 he worked under Richardson Cross and Cyril Walker at the Bristol Eye Hospital, becoming an honorary surgeon in 1919. In 1921 he was appointed surgeon to the eye department of the B

Born 7 October 1869 at Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand, the fourth child and second son of Samuel Stewart Griffin and Catherine Finegan, his wife. His father, born in Canada, was medical man, clergyman, politician, and pioneer settler. He was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, where h

Born 20 October 1882 at Stamford Hill, London, eldest son of Arthur Griffith, solicitor, who survived his son, and his wife, *née* Donald. The family had a distinguished legal tradition. He was educated at Tollington Park College, at King's College, Strand, where he was a junior scholar, and at King

Born on 20 May 1878 at Dunedin, he was educated at the University of New Zealand, University College, London, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He held resident posts at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, the London Throat Hospital, and the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. He wa

Born 15 August 1860 at Saffron Walden, Essex, the second child and only son of William Spicer and Anne Holmes, his wife. His father owned a considerable amount of land as well as the Rose and Crown Hotel in Saffron Walden; his mother came of a family of brewers in Yorkshire. Holmes Spicer was educat

Born on 1 October 1858, the fourth son of the fourteen children of William Joseph Square, FRCS, and his wife Charlotte Anne Hancock. He was educated at Honiton, Marlborough College, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He qualified MRCS in 1881, before the establishment o

Born on 11 March 1896 at Oudtshoorn, Cape, South Africa, he was educated at University College School and Hospital, London, winning the Lister medal for clinical surgery in 1918 and serving as house surgeon and ophthalmic registrar. He was commissioned in the South African Medical Corps towards the

Born at Ashford on 20 August 1879, eldest son of H J Goulden, a publisher and bookseller of Canterbury, and his wife Isabel Wind, he was educated at St Edmund's College, Ware, and at Downing College, Cambridge where his interests, which had been limited to music, broadened. Graduating in 1900, he co

Peter Rycroft was born in Bradford, Yorkshire on 11 October 1928, the elder son of Sir Benjamin Rycroft and his wife, Mary, née Rhodes. He went to school at St Piran's on the Hill, Maidenhead, and at Stowe, and from there proceeded to his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He continue

Andrew Rugg-Gunn was born on 26 November 1884 at Altandhu, Ross and Cromarty, in north-west Scotland, the eldest of the five children of John Douglas Gunn, a school-master, and Mary Maclean his wife. He was educated and graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1907. He then went int

Roderick Paton was born on 14 September 1908 in Streatham where his father was a general practitioner, and was educated at Streatham College, Dulwich College and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, and qualified in 1931. Nine years later, after various hospital appointments, he obtained his Fell