Born at Mymensing, Bengal about 1872, the youngest son of John Gay French, FRCS, Indian Medical Service. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and obtained an open entrance scholarship at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London. He was house surgeon at St Mary's and also held resident pos

Born at Bromborough, Cheshire, on 1 August 1858, the fifth child and second son of James Goodman Bull, merchant of Liverpool, and Mary Chilton, his wife. He was educated at the Hereford Cathedral School where he learnt to play cricket well. He was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge on 1 October 18

Born on 23 March 1873, the second son of Charles Percy West of Ambleside, a cotton broker, and Catherine Camidge, his wife. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby, and at Balliol College, Oxford, which he entered with a classical scholarship in 1891. He took a first class in classical m

Born at Barton-upon-Irwell, 19 June 1867, the son of George Hibbert Westmacott, wholesale chemist, and Rosena Berry, his wife. He was educated at the Grammar School, at the University, and at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester. As soon as he had qualified he went to Burma in the capacity of surgeon to

Born at Woolwich on 23 August 1876, only son of George Whale, solicitor, and Matilda Whale, his wife. He was educated at Bradfield, at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he played lawn-tennis for the university club "The Grasshoppers", and at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he served as house physician

Born at Exmouth on 30 April 1891, the second child and only son of Surgeon Major A J Wharry, of the Egyptian Army, and Lillie Adeline Barker, his wife. He was educated at Radley and matriculated from New College, Oxford in 1910, but took no degree in the University. He received his medical education

Born 8 August 1868, the eldest child of Peter O'Malley, farmer, of Kilmilkin, Maam, Co Galway, and his wife Mary O'Malley, born in the same clan as her husband. Three other sons of Peter O'Malley also achieved distinction in medicine. He was educated at Galway Grammar School, at Queen's College (now

Born on 11 March 1877 he trained at the London Hospital, qualified in 1902, and studied in Vienna. After serving as assistant surgeon to the Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, he was appointed the first ear nose and throat surgeon of the General Infirmary and lecturer in his specialty in the

Born in London in 1875 the son of Richard Barwell FRCS, surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, and Mary Diana Shuttleworth his wife, he was educated at Temple Grove and Westminster School, where he was Bishop Williams exhibitioner, and at St George's, where he held resident posts. Deciding to specialise

Born 27 July 1875 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, Plymouth, only child of Staff-Surgeon Charles Lyon Ridout, RN, MRCS 1866, and Ada Perley Scott, his wife, daughter of Archibald Scott of Halifax, Nova Scotia. C L Ridout was at that time on the staff at Stonehouse and later served in HMS *To

Drevor Frederick Acton Neilson was born in Bulwell, Nottingham, on 19 September 1891. His father was an MD of Glasgow. He was educated at Dunchurch Hall and Rugby, at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at St Thomas's Hospital. After qualifying MRCS, LRCP he joined the Army on 30 January 1915 and served

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