Born at Prestwich, son of J E Howarth and twin brother of (Sir) Edgar Goldie Howarth KBE, CB, he was educated at Shrewsbury, King's College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. After house appointments, when he was house surgeon to Sir George Makins and W H Battle, he spent considerable time in post

Robert Louttit Flett qualified MB ChB from the Otago Medical School in 1925, where he was also demonstrator in anatomy. As an anatomist he won the Scott Memorial Medal in applied anatomy and was a member of the Anatomical Society. After obtaining his Fellowship he spent the rest of his career and

Born on 31 December 1880 son of Albert Kisch MRCS who was in general practice for many years in Sunderland Avenue, and grandson of Joseph Kisch MRCS, an obstetric surgeon of 2 Circus Place, Finsbury, he was educated at the City of London School and St Thomas's where he qualified in 1904. He was Musg

Charles Hamblen-Thomas was born on 25 March 1887 at Paignton, Devon, the eldest child of Charles Kaines Thomas, a civil engineer, and Evelyn Hamblen. He was educated at Glengorse School, Eastbourne, before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1914 and after house appoin

The son of W L Mollison, Master of Clare College, Cambridge, he was born on 20 December 1878 and was educated at Haileybury and King's College, Cambridge, entering the latter as an exhibitioner in natural sciences in 1897. After obtaining a first class in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos, he en

John Parry Monkhouse was born on 18 December 1899. He did the medical course at St Mary's Hospital and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1925, proceeding to the London degree the following year. After house appointments he soon began to specialize in otolaryngology, and after taking the FRCS in

Frederick Boyes Korkis was born in England at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, on 21 December, 1913, but on the death of his father was taken at an early age to live in New Zealand, and hence became known to many of his friends and associates as a New Zealander. He received his early education at King'

Born on 25 June 1904 at Johannesburg, South Africa, second son of John James Passe, an engineer, and Eleanor Jane Price his wife, his parents moved to Australia while he was a child, and he was educated at Melbourne High School and graduated in dentistry at Melbourne University in April 1926. Passe

Educated at Clare College, Cambridge, winning first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1908, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was senior house surgeon to the throat and ear department, he practised at 14 Leeds Road, Harrogate, was aural surgeon to the General Hospital,

Born at Hull on 4 February 1867 the son of John Wilkinson MRCS (1859), who was surgeon to the Hull police and died on 25 April 1875; his grandfather having also practised there, he was educated at Hull Grammar School, was a scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and took first-class honours in the

Peter Harold Huggill was born on 28 December 1919 in Surbiton and attended Dulwich College before reading medicine at Downing College, Cambridge in 1938. He completed his studies at King's College Hospital where he was house surgeon to Victor Negus and Terence Cawthorne. After service in the RAMC in

Abdul Razaak Jasim Al-Sheikhli was an ENT consultant at the Mayday Hospital, Croydon. He was born on 20 November 1936 in Baghdad, the son of Jasim Al-Sheikhli, an Imam, and his wife, Sabria. He was educated at the Al-Risafa Intermediate School and Adhamiya Secondary School, in Baghdad, before going