Arthur Norman Jones was born on 14 January 1904 in Liverpool, the son of John Lewis Jones, an estate agent, and Catherine Elizabeth, the daughter of a banker. His early education was at the Blundellsands School and Liverpool College, and he went to medical school in Liverpool, graduating MB ChB in 1

Alison George Selborne Bailey, known as 'Joe', was larger than life. He was born on 19 July 1915, the son of George Frederick Selborne Bailey, a general practitioner and Mabel Yardley Guard, a midwife. He was educated at Radley, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he spent much of his t

John Ernest Price Watts of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, passed the Conjoint Examination in 1911, and in 1913 the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He worked at the Westminster, King's College London, and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. He was medical officer and later consultant surgeon

Born in London, 9 March 1861, the thirteenth child and sixth son of Robert Faulder White, advertising agent, and Elizabeth Mitton Shearburn, his wife. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was resident medical officer. He practised for a

The younger son of Henry Smith, professor of systematic surgery, when Sir Joseph (afterwards Lord) Lister was professor of clinical surgery, at King's College, London. Hugh Smith was educated at King's College, of which he was afterwards an Associate, and at King's College Hospital, where he was hou

Born on 1 August 1886 second son of Tissington W G Tatlow of Drumrora, Co Cavan, Ireland, he was educated at Trinity College and the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, where he won the Hudson prize. He qualified in 1911, and served as house surgeon to Berkeley Moynihan at the General Infirmary, Leeds. He wa

Harold Griffith was born about 1889 and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and resident intern midwifery assistant, after qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1911, and took the Fellowship in 1914. He served at 22 Casualty C

Guinane graduated from the University of Sydney in 1927, and served as house surgeon (1927-28) and senior house surgeon (1928-29) at the Prince Alfred Hospital. He was resident medical officer at the Sydney Women's Hospital 1929-30 and at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children 1930-31. He then ca

Harold Wilson Bruce was born in 1876 and trained at Guy's Hospital, where he qualified MB BS in 1897. He proceeded MD in 1899 and passed the FRCS in 1901. After holding a house appointment at Guy's he served in the Boer War and then went to India to join the team fighting plague in Bombay. On his re

Erichsen Sutton Page was born at Solihull where his grandfather and his father had been in medical practice. He went to Solihull Grammar School and thence to Cambridge as a scholar of Selwyn College. He was a brilliant student and graduated BA in 1919 with a first-class in the natural science tripos

Born on 29 August 1878, William Edwin Haigh studied medicine at University College, London and St Bartholomew's Hospital, and qualified in 1909. Haigh was Assistant Demonstrator in Anatomy at University College, London, and later held appointments at the General Infirmary and the Hospital for Women

Born on 23 January 1879 at Hackney, where his father was a builder and slate merchant, the family prospered and moved to Enfield, but his father died young and "Freddy" was brought up by his mother, whom he resembled in vivid good looks and alert mentality. He was educated at the London Hospital, qu