Born at Kobe, Japan on 25 September 1875, the elder son of John Kirkaldy Cunningham, a merchant, and Florence Heaslop, his wife. His father retired from business and settled at Axminster in 1887, and sent his son to Sherborne School. He entered at Michaelmas term 1889 and left in 1894, having been c

Born 4 May 1876, the only child of George Mayou, MD, and Adela Coombes Showers, his wife; his father was in practice at Monmouth. He was educated at the Hereford Cathedral School and at King's College Hospital, where he won the Warneford scholarship and the Jelf medal in 1896. He gained the Jacksoni

Born on 1 December 1868 at 1 Welclose Place, Blackman Square, Leeds, the elder son and third child of Alfred Whitehead, cloth manufacturer, and Elizabeth Longley, his wife. He was educated at the Leeds Grammar School, at the Yorkshire College, and at the Leeds School of Medicine. He served as house

Born 9 July 1859 at Forest Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, son of the Rev James Samuel Blair, vicar of Killingworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and his wife, *née* Buxton. He was educated at Durham School and having won a university scholarship in 1878 entered the University of Durham College of Medicine, Newc

Born in Vienna on 14 June 1851 the son of Adalbert Fuchs, professor of agriculture at the Technische Hochschule, Vienna. He was educated at Vienna under Billroth and Brücke, and was afterwards assistant in the Physiological Institute at Innsbruck. He was assistant to Arlt in the Ophthalmological Cli

Born at Lublin in Poland, he came to England in 1920 and entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. After qualifying he took up general practice on his own at the Vale, Highbury NW but, deciding to specialise in ophthalmology, he was admitted a Fellow in 1932 and then worked as a clinical assist

Born on 28 February 1906 son of Francis John Philps, sometime editor of the *Financial Times*, he was educated at Aldenham and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where after qualifying he was house surgeon to George Gask and Thomas Dunhill, later becoming house surgeon and resident medical officer at the Ro

Born on 1 March 1899 in Dalston, Cumberland, he found himself involved at a tender age in the war of 1914-18 during which he served in minesweepers of the Royal Navy, mostly in the Mediterranean. On demobilisation he decided to take up medicine and entered the medical school of Guy's Hospital. After

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

Humphrey Neame was born on 8 May 1887 and went to school at Cheltenham College; he was President of the Cheltonian Society in 1951-52. He did his undergraduate course at the London Hospital, and after qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1910 he spent a year in Serbia at the time of the Balkan wa

Born on 30 August 1861 at New Malton, Yorkshire the fifth son of the Rev John Walker, Rector of Bradwell, Great Yarmouth, his elder brother Robert being the first Archdeacon of Uganda 1893-1912, he was educated at Haileybury and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Nat

Edwin Cook received his medical education at Liverpool University, graduating in 1940, early in the second world war. After holding resident posts at Liverpool he soon joined the RAFVR. One of his early postings was to 266 Rhodesia Squadron RAF, and his association with this squadron was to remain o