George Swinburne was born on 3 February 1907, second of the three children of G A Swinburne, at Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia, and was educated at Melbourne High School and University, where he graduated in medicine in 1930 from Ormond College, winning several scholarships. Swinburne was a keen at

Born in London 15 August 1862, the second child and eldest son of Harry Kelson, shipbuilder, and Emily Cumming his wife. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk. He then proceeded to the London Hospital, where he was Lethaby scholar and filled the offices of house physician, clinical surg

Edith Whetnall was born at Hull in 1910, and trained at King's College Hospital where she graduated in 1938, taking the Conjoint Diploma in 1939, the Fellowship in 1940, and the London MS degree in 1944. She became interested in ear surgery while working at the branches of King's College Hospital at

Donald Reid Wheeler was educated in Belfast, graduating in medicine in 1918. He undertook post-graduate study in London and Vienna, and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1922, and the Membership and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1923.

Born on 25 January 1876, son of S L Horsford, of St Kitt's, West Indies, he was educated at Bedford Modern School and Edinburgh University, taking his MD with honours in 1902. A year later he took the English Fellowship after serving as a clinical assistant at the Throat Hospital in Golden Square. H

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

Born 17 October 1876, eldest son of Thomas Fenton of Castletown, Co Sligo, Ireland, and his wife, Mary MacMunn. He was educated at Middleton House School (Dr Conder's), near Bognor, Sussex, and at St Thomas's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. At St Bartholomew's he served as clinical assistant in the

Howard Michael Parsons was an ENT surgeon in Lewisham and then Croydon. He was born in Paddington, London, on 14 April 1918, during a Zeppelin raid, the third child of John Parsons, a master builder, and his wife Maude Parsons née Percival. He was educated at St Andrews Prep School, Eastbourne and t

Peter Adlington was an ear, nose and throat surgeon to the West and East Dorset Health Authorities between 1969 and 1997. He was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 8 April 1932. His father Basil was an ear, nose and throat surgeon and a general practitioner, and also a fellow of the College. His mo

The son of a well-known dentist in Boulogne. He became a student at St George's Hospital in 1851, studied at Heidelberg, and after qualifying was appointed one of the Surgeons of the West London Hospital, Hammersmith, on its foundation in 1856. He had only held this post a short time, as well as tha

The fifth son of Andrew Pritchard, FRS, Edinburgh; studied at King's College Hospital, London, where he was House Surgeon, then at Edinburgh, winning the Ettles Scholarship and Gold Medal, his Thesis being "On the Structure of the Lamina Spiralis Membranacea". He returned to King's College Hospital,

The second son of David Tod, JP, of Eastwood Park and Hartfield, Renfrewshire, was born at Partick, Glasgow, on September 15th, 1870. He was educated at Clifton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was admitted a Pensioner on May 27th, 1889, and graduated with 1st Class Honours in the