Born 16 January 1887 at Croydon Terrace, Bury, Lancashire, the second child and second son of Peter Graham Gow, bank manager, and Jessie Menzies, his wife. He was educated at Bury Grammar School and the Victoria University, Manchester, where he graduated in 1909. He served as senior house surgeon, s

Born 20 April 1863 at Ponthenry, Carmarthenshire, second son of David Griffiths, farmer, and Sarah Everett, his wife. He was educated at Llanelly and at Edinburgh University, where he took honours at the MB examination and won the gold medal at the doctoral graduation, and was Murchison scholar. He

Born at Swansea on 11 May 1871 the third child and only son of Thomas Durslyn Griffiths, MD (1837-1914), a former president of the British Medical Association, and Frances Annette Secretan Gabb, his wife. His mother was the third daughter of the Rev J F Secretan Gabb, of Balcarres, Charlton Kings, G

Educated at University College Hospital, where he gained the silver medal for pathology and surgery and acted as house surgeon. He then went into partnership at Brixton with John Archibald, MB, CM Edin. He left London in 1904 and lived in the Leckhampton Road, Cheltenham, where he died on 8 August 1

Born in Montreal on 5 August 1872, a son of John Sprott Archibald, a Canadian judge, and Ellen Hutchison his wife. The family was of Scotch-Irish descent and had emigrated to Montreal through New Hampshire and Nova Scotia during the eighteenth century. Archibald and his brothers and sisters were bro

Born 17 April 1873 son of William Scott, principal of Toronto Normal School. He was educated at the Ottawa Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, where he graduated in arts in 1895 and qualified in medicine three years later. He started to practise in Toronto, but spent some years in po

Born in 1906 (his father's name was Herten), he was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and at the London Hospital. He served as resident medical officer at Poplar Hospital, and subsequently settled in Buenos Aires, where he became surgeon to the British Hospital. He died at Buenos Aires, of a cardia

Born at Easington, Co Durham, where his father was the local doctor, he was educated privately in Durham, then at Rutherford College, Newcastle and at Durham University College. After qualification he served in the RAMC in Mesopotamia as a battalion medical officer. On his return to civilian life he

Born 30 May 1871, the seventh child and fifth son of William Banting, art dealer, of 27 St. James's Street, London, SW and Mary Pugh, his wife. He was educated at the University of London and took his clinical training at Guy's Hospital. He served as house physician and assistant in the nose, throat

Born 18 June 1874 at Hazelholme, Colnbrook near Slough, Bucks, the third of the eight children of Samuel Roberts, builder and contractor, and Maria Harris, his wife. He was educated at Padcroft Grammar School, West Drayton, and at Elmfield College, York. He entered Middlesex Hospital with a scholars

Born 4 June 1882 at Blackburn, Lancashire, the eighth child and fourth son of John Thompson, cotton manufacturer, and Alice Whitworth, his wife. He was educated at Repton and at Heidelberg College in Germany. Entering the Victoria University, Manchester, he graduated in medicine with second-class ho

Born on 12 January 1873 at 37 Panton Street, London, SW, eldest son of Albert Thurston, braces manufacturer, and Jane Owen, his wife. He was educated at a private school at Margate, and took his medical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and surgical registrar. He was