Margaret Witt was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the North Middlesex Hospital, London. She was born on 14 June 1930 in Leyton, London, the oldest daughter of Henry Witt, a chauffeur, and Bertha, a lady’s companion until she married. Margaret won a state scholarship to Walthamstow Cou

Christie Brown was born on 1 July 1898 and was educated at the Royal Kepier Grammar School and Durham University, where he gained numerous prizes and scholarships. While an undergraduate he served for a few years of the first world war in a destroyer based on Scapa Flow, but returned to the Universi

John Crossley was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. He was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the son of Walter Crossley, a manufacturer of bedding ware, and Annie Crossley née Burniston, a housewife. He was educated at Blackburn Grammar School and then Repton.

Born 19 July 1891, the third and youngest son of Peter Dobson Hayes of Stockport. He was educated at Manchester before entering the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. His student days were broken by the outbreak of war and he served in the Royal Field Artillery from 10 September 1914 till 12 August

Kenneth Raymond Stanley Pool was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone, Buckland Hospital, Dover, and William Harvey Hospital, Ashford. He studied medicine at King's College Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1952. He gained his FRCS in 1958. P

Born in Edinburgh on March 16th, 1873, of a family originally from Dumfriesshire and the district of Sanquhar and Wanlockhead. After attending the City of London School and University College, he entered the London Hospital in 1892, where he was a sprinter and Rugby football player. He held the appo

Born in Wiltshire, the son of a farmer. He received his education partly at the Grammar School at Warminster, and then, being in weak health, from a tutor at Salisbury. He entered Guy's Hospital as a student in October, 1878, having already matriculated at London University. In 1883 he gained two p

Born at Coln St Denys, Gloucestershire, on 15 September 1869, the fifth child and third son of the Rev Edward Duncan Hall and his wife, *née* Beauchamp. He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and at St Mary's Hospital, where he won prizes in anatomy, surgery, dermatology, and midwifery.

Born 21 December 1865 at Bathgate, West Lothian, eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1838-1912, for whom see *DNB*), then minister of the Bathgate Evangelical Union Congregational Church, and Jane, his wife, daughter of John Shields, of Byres, Bathgate. He was educat

Born on 3 August 1890 one of the four children of John Martin McCurrich, chief engineer of the Bristol and Avonmouth Dock, he was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Vienna. Qualifying in 1915, he joined the Army as a combatant in the Middlesex Regiment but was later

Brews was the son of a general practitioner, Richard Vincent Brews, LRCSI, and his wife Edith Manifold; he was born in North Woolwich in 1902. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and became a medical student at the London Hospital in 1920. After gaining many prizes he qualified in 1924,

Born on 22 November 1903, son of Professor William Nixon, Professor of Mathematics at Malta University, he was educated at Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital where he was Epsom Scholar in 1922. Qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1927, he was appointed house surgeon at St Mary's and, later, in