Naguib Mahfouz was born at Mansoura, Nile Delta, in 1882 and educated at the American Mission School and the Government School of Mansoura, at both of which he acquitted himself outstandingly well. He was an avid reader and his interest in articles on Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus and on

Richard Maliphant was born in Merthyr Tydfil on 17 January 1900, the second son of Richard Maliphant, an official in the Cyfartha steel works, and of Mary Morgan, daughter of a coal merchant. He was educated at Cyfartha Secondary School and went straight into the RNVR where he served in 1917-1918 as

Percy Malpas was educated at Merchant Taylor's School, Crosby, and graduated in medicine at Liverpool in 1923. After resident appointments he passed the FRCS in 1926 and the ChM in 1928. He then decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology and was later elected FRCOG in 1937. He was appointed

Margaret Salmond as she preferred to be called, was born on 20 January 1897, at Ilkley, Yorkshire, the only child of Percy Newby Salmond, a merchant, also a Major in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Scots Regiment, and of his wife, Elaine Marguerite, nee Bouch. Her early education was at St

Norman Lewis White, the son of a chemist, was born on 8 September 1898, at Waterford, Ireland. He was educated at Leighton Park School and St John's College, Cambridge, before entering University College Hospital Medical School in 1921 with a Goldsmid Scholarship. On qualifying he was house physicia

The daughter of a physician, William Cecil Sharpe and grand-daughter of Sir John Brigg (for many years Liberal MP for Keighley), Dorothy was born in the Red House, Darley Dale, Matlock, on 16 February 1903, close to Smedley's Hydro and the Royal Hotel used for the treatment of rheumatism and allied

William Ralph Winterton was educated at Marlborough College and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital before qualifying in 1929. After resident appointments he became gynaecological registrar at the Middlesex in 1936, where he was deeply influenced and inspired by Vict

Evan Arthur Williams was born in Wales on 11 April 1919 and after early education entered Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1937. He qualified in 1943 and almost immediately joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Italy where he was mentioned in despatches. After demobilisation in 1948 he ret

John Edwin Forde Bruce was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Nottingham. He gained his FRCS in 1967. He carried out his postgraduate training in London and in 1975 was appointed as a consultant at King’s Mill Hospital, Mansfield and the City Hospital, Nottingham. He was president of

Michael Kingsley Dunstan ('Mike') was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. He was born on 13 October 1933 in Chiswick, west London. His father, Chester, an Australian, was a general practitioner who had trained at the Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, wh

An accomplished and successful obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dame Josephine was also known to the wider world for her devotion to social and educational reform, and was seen by many as an exemplar for the role of professional women in modern society. Josephine Barnes, happily known to her famil

Robert Clarendon Percival was born at Richmond, New South Wales, Australia, on 16 September 1908, the fifth son and seventh of the eight children of William Percival, a farmer, and of Blanche Hilda Leontina, née Wikner, the daughter of a civil engineer. He was educated at Richmond Private Grammar Sc