Born in Bristol he was educated at Clifton College and Bristol medical school where he gained a scholarship. In 1913 he worked under Richardson Cross and Cyril Walker at the Bristol Eye Hospital, becoming an honorary surgeon in 1919. In 1921 he was appointed surgeon to the eye department of the B

Born on 6 October 1881 the eleventh child of the Rev Alfred James, Rector of Burwarton, Salop, and his wife Lucy Woodward and grandson of William James who was MP for Carlisle for nearly thirty years and served as High Sheriff for Cumberland, James was educated at Winchester College and St George's

Born at Antrim, Ireland on 28 February 1862 third son of William Jaques, a taxer, and his wife née Graves, he was educated privately before training at Liverpool Medical School. He transferred to King's College, London, qualified through the Conjoint Board, and served as house surgeon at King's Coll

Born in London about 1875, the son of George Loosely, he was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, took second-class honours in physiology, and had his clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as ophthalmic house surgeon. He was a clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital and

Born on 7 February 1870 son of Thomas Lyle MA, TCD an official in the Board of Education, and his wife née Webb, he was educated at King's College School, London, and proceeded to King's College and its Hospital, which was then still in Clare Market near the College. He won many scholarships and pri

Born on 25 October 1878 at Cambridge son of Edward Moore he matriculated in 1897 as a non-collegiate student, entered Christ's College in 1898 where he was elected a scholar on winning first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1900, and won a scholarship to St Bartholomew's Hospital

Born in London on 20 October 1866, second child and eldest son of Paul Augustus Hepburn, member of a firm of tanners, and Mary his wife, daughter of Henry John Langton. Mrs Hepburn's youngest brother was John Langton, surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital. P A Hepburn was the eldest son of his parent

Born 9 July 1859 at Forest Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, son of the Rev James Samuel Blair, vicar of Killingworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and his wife, *née* Buxton. He was educated at Durham School and having won a university scholarship in 1878 entered the University of Durham College of Medicine, Newc

Born 21 September 1858 at 8 Morden Terrace, Lewisham, fourth child and third son of Francis Taylor, of the Audit Office, and Eliza Deakin, his wife. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, entering in 1870, and at St George's Hospital Medical School, where he was Brackenbury prizeman and Thomps

Born about 1877 at Purneah, India, son of Francis Cruise who had died before Richard entered Harrow in April 1890. He received his medical training at St Mary's Hospital. After qualifying in 1900 he specialized as an ophthalmologist, and served as senior clinical ophthalmic assistant at St Mary's an

Born 23 December 1859 at Croft House, Stanhope in Weardale, Durham, the son of Richardson Robinson, the local builder, and his wife, who was of Scotch descent and Huguenot extraction. Educated at the Barrington Village School and at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Modern School, he entered the University of

Born on 18 December 1893, in Chungking, China, son of C J Davenport FRCS, Robert Cecil Davenport was educated at Mill Hill School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1916, and then joined the RAMC, serving as a captain in the first world war. After demobilisation he returned to St B