Born 6 April 1863 at Spilsby, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of the Rev Charles George Ridley, who came from Kimbolton, and Mary Vine, his wife. He was educated at Boston Grammar School and at St Mary's Hospital, where he gained scholarships in natural science and pathology. He acted subsequently as h

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 on 24 October 1886 at Barnsley, Yorkshire, the sixth child and fifth son of Charles Robinson, timber merchant, and Emma Naylor, his wife. He was educated at Barnsley High School, the Leeds Medical School, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After serving as house surgeon at the Leeds General Infirma

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 1 June 1862 at Kensington, second child and eldest son of Beevor Roll, chartered accountant, and Ellen Winfield, his wife. He was educated at Bedford Grammar School, at Christ's College, Cambridge, and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as ophthalmic house surgeon. He was later chief c

John Bookless was born on 5 March 1878 and received his education at Christ's College, Brecon, and Eastbourne College. In 1897 he went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge with a mathematical scholarship, but after leaving the University he decided on a medical career and entered Guy's Hospital Medical Sch

Edward Alabaster was born on 14 April 1893 at Parkhill, Moseley, Birmingham the fifth son of Arthur Alabaster, a manufacturing jeweller, and Catherine Birch. He was educated at King Edward VI School and Birmingham University. When the first world war broke out in 1914 Alabaster was only two-third

John Arkle was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 28 July 1890 and was educated at St George's Private School at Gosforth. Subsequently he went to Edinburgh with a view to becoming an actuary, but after 12 months left Edinburgh to study medicine at Durham University. Arkle was a brilliant student and

Hugh Joseph Taggart was born on 9 April 1893 and studied medicine at the University of Belfast where he obtained the BA in 1914 and qualified with the MB BCh BAO degree with honours in 1919. He decided to specialize in ophthalmology and so took the DOMS in 1921 and the FRCS in 1926. Taggart becam

Kenneth Rostron received his medical education at Cambridge and Manchester and qualified in 1937, obtaining the DOMS in 1947 and his Fellowship in 1950. After qualifying and deciding to specialise in ophthalmology he was chief clinical assistant at the Westminster branch of Moorfields and at the Cen

Born at Brighton on 5 July 1874, he was educated privately, then at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Qualifying in 1898 he became house surgeon at Wolverhampton General Hospital and the Royal County Hospital, Winchester, and ophthalmic house surgeon to B J Vernon and W H

Lewis Philip Jameson Evans was born at Edgbaston, Birmingham on 2 June 1907, the son of John Jameson Evans, FRCS, a distinguished ophthalmic surgeon and lecturer in ophthalmology in Birmingham University; his mother was a daughter of the Rev Thomas Charles Edwards DD, first Principal of the Universi