Malcolm Donaldson was born on 27 April 1884 and was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a 3rd Class in the Natural Science Tripos in 1905. The most notable feature, however, of his university career was his keen interest in rowing, and in 1906 he won the Universi

Maurice Lawrence Treston was born on 9 February 1891, and received his early education in the United States. He came to the London Hospital for the medical course and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1913. After junior hospital posts at the London Hospital and at Colchester he passed into the

Herbert Kenneth Pacey was born in Auckland on 6 August 1905 and was educated at Auckland Grammar School, Palmerston North Boys' High School, and Otago University where he distinguished himself as a rugby footballer, playing for the University of Otago, and in 1927 for the New Zealand Universities. A

Walter Maslen-Jones was born in Simla on 5 September 1891. His father was a Baptist Missionary and on his return to England his son was educated at Eltham College and then at the Middlesex Hospital. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1914, and soon afterwards joined the RAMC and for four year

Arthur Capel Herbert Bell was born at Epsom, Surrey, on 18 September 1904. His father was John Herbert Bell, a solicitor who was the eldest son of Dr William Bell, general practitioner at Wallasey. The second son, and uncle of Arthur Bell, was William Blair Bell, first President of the College of Ob

Philip Ganner was born on 24 November 1904 the son of a general practitioner in Birmingham. He attended the Hallfield preparatory school, Edgbaston and Bradfield College proceeding in due course to study medicine at the Birmingham Medical School graduating in London in 1928. Two years later he obtai

Born at Honingham, Norfolk in 1869 he was educated at Bracondale School, Norwich and King's College Hospital, which he entered with an exhibition, and won prizes and scholarships each year from 1887 to 1890. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the London MB in 1892, took the BS in 1894, and g

Patrick Herbert Lyon Playfair was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in South Africa. He was born on 15 September 1903 in Hampshire. He gained his MRCS LRCP in 1928 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1933. He practised in South Africa. Outside medicine, his main interests were

George Frederick Gibberd was born on 18 April 1902 and grew up in Dulwich. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School and Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1923. He became MS (London) in 1926 and FRCS in 1927 and a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1933. He was ele

Arthur Joseph Wrigley (Joe) was born at Clitheroe, Lancashire, on 5 May 1902, the son of Canon Joseph Wrigley and after attending the Royal Grammar School, Clitheroe, and later Rossall School, he entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1924. He gained a distinction in pathology in

William Ralph Winterton was educated at Marlborough College and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital before qualifying in 1929. After resident appointments he became gynaecological registrar at the Middlesex in 1936, where he was deeply influenced and inspired by Vict

Born in 1906 Leslie Westfield Gleadell was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, before going on with a scholarship to Melbourne University. As a youth he suffered from a disease of the hip joint, wrongly diagnosed as tuberculosis, and the prescribed long immobilisation left him with irreversible j