Nur Ahmad Khan Seyal was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology and a former principal of King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan. He was born on 16 July 1920 and received his early education in his home town of Jhang (Punjab). In 1936 he went to study medicine at Glancy Medical College, Amri

Born on 25 March 1869 at Stoke Newington Green, North London, eldest of the three children of George Jesse Barnabas Stevens MRCS 1866 and his wife Charlotte Honey, he was educated at St Paul's School and Guy's Hospital where he served as house surgeon and resident obstetric officer, after qualifying

Born at Cartwright, Durham County, Ontario, Canada, on 25 May 1877, the son of Nelson Marlow and Ann Parr, his wife. He was educated at Port Perry and took honours at Trinity Medical College, Toronto, in 1900. He served for a year as house surgeon at St Michael's Hospital, and then proceeded to Lond

Frank Cook was the son of Frank Plant Cook, and was born on 6 November 1888 at Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. He went to Bedford Modern School and Guy's Hospital Medical School, where he had a brilliant career as a student. Having obtained a university scholarship and research studentship in

Charles Greenidge was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, on 28 December 1929, the third child and only son of Charles Woseley Greenidge, a jeweller, and Pauline Mary née O'Brien. He was educated at Wesley Hall Boys School, Combermere, and Harrison College, and studied medicine at the University College o

Gertrude Mary Beatrice Morgan was born in Edinburgh in November 1901 and was educated at Edinburgh Ladies' College and Newnham, College, Cambridge. After graduating in the Natural Science Tripos in 1923 she went to St Mary's Hospital, London, where she qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and graduat

Frank O'Gorman was born at Bradford on 11 September 1910. No information is available about his forbears, but when he was ten years old his family moved to Glasgow where he was educated at the Jesuit School of St Aloysius before studying medicine at Glasgow University. An outstanding athlete, he pla

Born at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, on February 3rd, 1818, the son of William Wells, a builder, by his wife Harriet, daughter of William Wright, of Bermondsey. He soon showed a marked interest in natural science and was sent as a pupil, without being formally apprenticed, to Michael Thomas Sadler, a

Alan Falconer had a long and varied surgical career in the Royal Navy, practising initially as a general surgeon before training as an obstetrician and gynaecologist. After he left the Navy, he became a school doctor at Sedbergh School in Cumbria. He was born in Darlington on 2 June 1921, the eldest

Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian was governor general of Saint Christopher and Nevis. He was born in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts (as the island of Saint Christopher is commonly known), on 22 October 1921. His father, Joseph Matthew Sebastian, founded the labour movement on Saint Ki

Born at Enfield Highway on 21 April 1855, eldest son and second of the nine children of Charles William Sutton, who had a farm where he fattened stock, killed it and sold it in Formosa Street, Maida Hill. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Wadsworth, a Northamptonshire farmer. Bland-Sutton