Born at Perry Hall, Bromsgrove, on 16 January 1864, the third son and fifth of the seven children of Edward Housman, solicitor, and Sarah Jane Williams, his wife. He was educated at Bromsgrove School and at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, where he was house physician and house surgeon. He then acted a

Born at Glastonbury, Somerset in the 1860s he was educated at the Newcastle School of Medicine, where he took honours, and at the Middlesex Hospital. He was house surgeon at the Middlesex and Great North Central Hospitals. Visiting Australia in 1895 he took a locum tenancy for Edwin Roberts MRCS of

Born on 29 May 1866 at Romsey, Hampshire, third child and second son of the Rev John White and his wife Martha Fisher, he was educated at Monkton Combe School and University College Hospital, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy for several years and held the usual resident posts. He took hono

Son of Edward Alexander Parry, contractor, and Jane Cartmell, his wife, he was born at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 29 June 1865. He was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, and at the University of Melbourne, where he graduated MB in 1886 and BS in the following year. He then came to Eng

Born on 11 February 1867 at Colombo, Ceylon, where his father, William Dumaresq Wright, was colonial treasurer; his mother's maiden name was Amy Braybrooke; he was their second son and third child. He was educated at Appledurcombe College, Isle of Wight, and at Haileybury, and took his medical train

Born at Islington on 12 June 1863, the eldest son of John Barnett, public secretary, and Emma Sewell, his wife. He was at school at Streatham Hill and at Oxford, before entering Charing Cross Hospital Medical School; where he won the Bone prize in 1881 and the physiology medal in 1882. After qualify

Born at Bletchley, 31 August 1865, the seventh child and fifth son of Thomas Lucas, farmer, and his wife, *née* Goodman. He was educated privately till he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1883, where he subsequently served as house surgeon. He was for a time resident medical officer at the Metro

Born at Blackburn on 21 January 1866, the second child and eldest son of Thomas Firth, cotton spinner and manufacturer, and Betty Fielden Lacy, his wife. He was educated privately and at Owens College, Manchester, before beginning his medical training at King's College and University College Hospita