Born in England about 1860, he received his medical training at University College Hospital, where he was Atkinson Morley surgical scholar. After qualifying in 1882 he was appointed to the staff of the Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington, and took the Fellowship in 1885. He emigrated to Australia i

The second son of Thomas Savage (qv). He was born in Birmingham in December, 1869, and after being educated at Birmingham School, matriculated from Christ Church at the University of Oxford on October 14th, 1884, graduated BA in 1890 and acted for a short time as Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Unive

Was apparently trained for the profession at the Westminster Hospital School of Medicine, where he was at one period Lecturer on Anatomy. Later he practised as a physician at 34 Dorset Place, Dorset Square. He was next appointed Physician to the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children, of whi

Born on 23 July 1878 at Shere, Surrey, one of the two sons of George Fisher, MRCS 1867, who practised there, and Mary Ann Ramsden, his wife. He was educated at Epsom College, entered the London Hospital with the Epsom scholarship in 1896, and subsequently served as interne and externe resident accou

Henry Harron Thomson was a consultant gynaecologist at Central Middlesex Hospital and Willesden General Hospital, London. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, London, qualifying MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1952. Prior to his consultant appointments he was a house surgeon at St Geo

Born on 6 November 1875 at Cardiff, sixth child of John Forsdike, master mariner, and Mary Ann Thomas, his wife. A brother, George Frederick Forsdike (d 1936), a solicitor and stockbroker, became Lord Mayor of Cardiff. H S Forsdike was educated at Llandovery College and at University College, London

Born on 22 September 1908 at 11 Barrington Road, Crouch End, N, the eldest of the five children of Frank Ernest Todd, civil servant and principal inspector of taxes, and Margaret Mary Shearman, his wife. He was educated at Prior Park School, Bath, and from there proceeded to Guy's Hospital, taking h

John Howkins was a gynaecological surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He was born in Hartlepool, County Durham, on 17 December 1907, the son of John Drysdale Howkins, a civil engineer, and Helen Louise née Greenwood, the daughter of a bank manager. He was educated at Cargilfield Preparator

Victor Bonney was one of the great masters of gynaecological surgery. He looked on himself as a surgeon who had cultivated one specialty, and could not agree that gynaecologists should be considered a third estate in the medical profession. He was not only a brilliant technical operator but a man of

Born in 1888 the third son of Lt-Col A S Roberts and Jane, daughter of Brigade Surgeon Benjamin Lane and sister of Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, he was educated at Cheltenham College and Guy's Hospital where he was awarded an entrance scholarship in arts and the Treasurer's Gold Medal in clinical surg

Born in 1901, son of R J Burt White, cotton goods buyer, of Crouch End, he was educated at Epsom College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Foster prize in anatomy and the Harvey prize in physiology. He was house surgeon to W McAdam Eccles and Girling Ball, and served as intern midwifer

Born in 1879 the son of Gomer Rowlands, an accountant at Llangollen, and his wife Martha, he was educated at the University of Liverpool, where he was Thelwall Thomas Fellow in Surgical Pathology and Gee Fellow. He was surgical registrar at the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women in London. He prac