Walter Harvey Gervis was born on 22 February 1901 in Brighton, Sussex, the son of Henry Gervis, medical practitioner and Matilda Death, a miller's daughter. His great, great grandfather was in practice in Ashburton. His great grandfather practiced in Tiverton and his grandfather was obstetric physic

Samir Morgan was born in El Menia, Egypt, on 26 June 1946. His father, Sadek, was a businessman and his mother, Fahema, a housewife. His brother went on to become an ENT specialist. Samir trained at the Asiut University Medical School, where he graduated with honours in 1968. After junior posts and

David Francis Thomas was born in Cork City, Eire, on 5 October, 1913, the son of Frederick Arthur Thomas and Mary Riordan. He was educated first at the Lateran University in Rome and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, having intended to take Holy Orders. He graduated Bachelor of Philosophy,

Brian Thomas came from a strong medical background. His father was a consultant ophthalmologist at Swansea and his father before him was also a doctor, while his mother, Florence, was an Edinburgh medical graduate and her father a general practitioner. Also two uncles and his brothers were in medici

Trevor Llewellyn Bowen was born at Newport, Monmouthshire, on 12 March 1932 and attended schools in Wales before entering King's College, London, and King's College Hospital Medical School. After graduating in 1955 he undertook general resident appointments before working in the orthopaedic departme

John Stanley Batchelor was a member of a distinguished medical family in New Zealand. His grandfather, Ferdinand Campion Batchelor MRCS 1871, trained at Guy's and emigrated to Dunedin in 1874 where he established an obstetrics and gynaecology practice, becoming the University of Otago's first Profes

John Archibald McLauchlan received his medical education at the University of Edinburgh and graduated MB ChB in 1938 and MD in 1939. He obtained the Edinburgh FRCS in 1931 and the English FRCS in 1934. He had been house surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh and resident surgic

Little is known of the career of Thomas Charles Howard Davies, beyond that he received his medical education at Cardiff, qualified MB, ChB Wales in 1940 and gained his Fellowship in 1949. He specialized in orthopaedics and was at one time a registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and se

David Millward Davies was born in Gwaelod-y-Garth and educated at Pontypridd Grammar School before entering the Welsh National School of Medicine where he graduated BSc in 1941 and MB, ChB in 1944. His first appointment was at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, under the wartime Emergency Medical Service.

Josiah Grant Bonnin was born at Ararat, Victoria, Australia on 26 January 1909, the only son of Francis Bonnin, a general practitioner surgeon, and Ellen (nee Grant). His early education was at Ararat Grammar School where he won a scholarship to Geelong College, Victoria. He then entered Melbourne U

Born at Waikari in North Canterbury, New Zealand, the son of B.L. Blunden, he was educated at Waihi Preparatory School and Christ's College from 1923 to 1926, being in the shooting eight in his last year at College. He graduated MB, ChB Otago, in 1933 gaining a tennis blue and representing the Unive

William Winslow Woodward was born in Emmaville, New South Wales, on 14 October 1920, the son of Edward Albert Woodward, a general practitioner. His father was an outstanding classical scholar who wrote poems in Latin and conversed in that language at regular meetings with fellow enthusiasts. After e