Born 3 August 1863 at Goos Vladimir, Russia, the sixth child and fifth son of William Edge, engineer, and his wife, née Pollitt. He was educated at Bolton Grammar School and at Owens College, Manchester. He then proceeded to St Thomas's Hospital and afterwards took postgraduate courses at Munich and

Born in Dublin on 23 October 1865, the fourth child and second son of Commissary Major-General Latham Blacker, a member of the Co Tyrone landed and military family, and Harriette Demaine Bagot-Smith, his wife. He was educated at Cheltenham College and University College, London, where he won an exhi

Born 21 December 1865 at Bathgate, West Lothian, eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1838-1912, for whom see *DNB*), then minister of the Bathgate Evangelical Union Congregational Church, and Jane, his wife, daughter of John Shields, of Byres, Bathgate. He was educat

Born 30 October 1904, the son of Joseph Edward Bowes MB, of Keswick, Cumberland, who survived him, Kenneth Bowes was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where his father was in practice. At the University of Liverpool he studied medicine and was awarded the Holt fellowship in ph

Born at Lichfield, he was educated at Mason College and the Birmingham Medical School. He went to South Africa immediately after qualifying in 1899, to serve in the RAMC during the war. He came home to take the Fellowship in 1903, but returned to practise at Uitenhage, where he married in 1909 Grace

Brews was the son of a general practitioner, Richard Vincent Brews, LRCSI, and his wife Edith Manifold; he was born in North Woolwich in 1902. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and became a medical student at the London Hospital in 1920. After gaining many prizes he qualified in 1924,

Born on 8 January at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, he served as an infantryman, chiefly in Mesopotamia, in the first world war, before studying medicine at the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1924 and became house surgeon. Becoming interested in obstetrics and gynaecology he was appointed sen

Born 21 May 1888 the fourth son of Louis Rivett, cotton-spinner, of Stockport, High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, and his wife, née Smith. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, in 1909. He received his cl

Born in London on 27 April 1887, second son of John McNair of Paisley, an underwriter at Lloyds, he was educated at Aldenham School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he took second-class honours in Natural Sciences, and at Guy's Hospital. During the first world war he served with the Royal Navy and

Prims Dharmaratnam Rajaratnam studied at the Ceylon Medical College and gained the LMS in 1938. In 1951 he gained both the Membership and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He lived at 99

Born on 2 July 1887 son of A Palmer, St Clair, Dunedin, NZ, he was educated at Waitaki and Otago University. Coming to England from New Zealand he went to the London Hospital where he qualified, obtaining honours in gynaecology in the London final examination. He was house surgeon, receiving room of

Aleck William Bourne was born on 4 June 1886 at Wilstone, Herts., and educated at Rydal School, Colwyn Bay, and at Downing College, Cambridge. In 1908 he was placed first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos and the same year became senior university scholar at St Mary's Hospital, London. He qualifi