Born at Twickenham, 4 May 1883, the third son of Frederick Richard Syms, solicitor, and Amelia Charlotte Kendall of Pelyn, Cornwall, his wife. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School and at King's College, London. After passing the London matriculation, he entered Guy's Hospital Medical School,

Born 10 March 1881 at Hinckley, Leicestershire, the second child and only son of Edward Simpson, a schoolmaster, and Charlotte McCann, his wife. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar, and took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos,

Born at Shafton, Bluefield, Jamaica, in 1885, the eldest son of Frederick Archibald Sinclair, MB Edinburgh 1882, and his wife. He came to England at the age of sixteen, and made his own way while completing his education. At the London Hospital, which he entered in 1903, he won the Anderson and dres

Born in South India, 25 October 1879, second child and only son of Cumarasingham Murugesapillai, a deputy collector in Tanjore, and Seethalakahmi Clarke, his wife. He was educated at the Hindu High School, Triplicane, Madras, and at the Presidency College, Madras. He came to England and took the Con

Edward Leslie Martyn Lobb, known to his friends as John, was educated at Guy's Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1908 with the Conjoint Board Diploma and the MB BS of the University of London. He proceeded to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1910, and the MS in 1911. In the

Candler was born in 1884 and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying with honours in 1908. After numerous house appointments at Bart's he passed his Fellowship in 1912 and was appointed to the staff of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in 1914. During the first world war he se

Edward Martin was born at Weston-super-Mare on 21 September 1883 where his father and grandfather were general practitioners. He was educated at St Peter's Preparatory School, Weston, and then at Charterhouse before ill health necessitated a prolonged stay in Switzerland. In 1903 he returned to Engl

Born 11 October 1882, the third child and only son of Samuel Buckley, FRCS, consulting physician to the Clinical (now the Northern) Hospital for Diseases of Women and Children, Manchester, and his wife, Florence Woolley. He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, and took first-class h

Percival Templeton Crymble was born on 21 March 1880 and graduated at the Royal University of Ireland in 1904. After acting as demonstrator of anatomy in Belfast he took his Fellowship in 1908 and then studied in London and Vienna. When he returned to Ireland in 1910 he was appointed assistant surge

Born at Birmingham on 15 September 1884, second son of Walter John Lloyd, manufacturer, and his wife, née Bolton. He was educated there at King Edward's School and at the University, of which he was an exhibitioner. He took his clinical training at the London Hospital, and graduated in medicine and

Born at Southampton in 1884, he was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in Natural Sciences (1905), and won an exhibition to Guy's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to Sir Charles Symonds. Crook settled in practice in partnership with Dr Astley Roberts at Ea

Arthur Cecil Barker Biggs was born in North London on 9 March 1885. His father, John Maundy Biggs, was a general practitioner and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Florence Elizabeth Biggs, née Hopkinson, his mother, was the daughter of the originator of the Hopkinson piano. He w