Born on 15 October 1859 at Wakefield, the elder son of Thomas Walker MRCS and Elizabeth Jackson Secker his wife. The Walker family had practised surgery at Wakefield since the early eighteenth century; J W Walker represented the sixth generation since William Walker, surgeon of Wakefield, who died i

Born at Peterborough on 18 December 1874, the third son of Thomas James Walker FRCS, he was educated at Haileybury, at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1896, and at St George's Hospital, where his father had been trained. After serv

Born on 1 November 1881 son of Charles Frederick Walton, he was educated at Framlingham College and the London Hospital where he gained many scholarships and prizes, qualifying in 1905. In the BSc examination in 1906 he obtained honours in anatomy and morphology, and on taking the MB BS degrees, he

Born in 1894 in Gateshead where his father was Mayor on several occasions, he was educated at Mill Hill School and then spent two years in training for a career in commerce before persuading his parents to allow him to study medicine which he commenced to do in 1913 at the old Newcastle medical scho

Born on 14 October 1875, he won a Grierson bursary at Edinburgh University in 1893 and qualified in 1898. After a term as assistant house surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary in 1899 he attended the Yorkshire College, now Leeds University, and proceeded to the Edinburgh MD in 1905. While at Leeds he m

Born on 3 October 1866 the eldest son of Isaac Waring of Southport, he was educated at Owen's College, Manchester and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he entered in 1886 as a scholar in Natural Science, obtained the BSc with honours in physiology in 1888, the MB in 1890 with honours in medicine and

Henry Ralph Johnson, generally known as Harry, was born on 18 October 1930, the son of a senior officer in the Victoria Public Service, and was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Trinity College, obtaining the degrees of BSc in 1951 and MB BS of Melbourne University in 1954. He then held a ser

Alan Britten Jones was born in Adelaide on 24 September 1898, the son of a South Australian Lands Department Surveyor. He went to school first at Xavier College, Melbourne, and later at Christian Brothers' College, Adelaide. As a medical student at Adelaide University he distinguished himself as a v

Revanappa Tirkappa Kulkarni was a surgeon in Gadag-Betageri, Karnataka, India. He was born in Savanur, in Dharwar district, Mysore State, on 6 March 1937, one of 14 children of Tirkappa Ningappa Kulkarni, the town clerk and a landlord, and Nilgangawa Kulkarni née Godhi. Only six children survived in

Born on 28 August 1868, the eldest son of D W Jones JP of Aberdare, he was educated at a private school, at Perry's School, Cardiff, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified in 1890, and passed the Fellowship examination before his twenty-fifth birthday, the earliest permissible age. He held resi

Born at Woolwich on 4 July 1883, son of the Rev Joseph Jordan, Vicar of Woolwich. Jordan's family moved to Bedford on the death of his father, and he was educated at Bedford School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1904. He received his c

Gunewardene was born and educated in Ceylon. He did postgraduate studies in England during the 1930s, taking the Fellowship in 1939. He practised in Ceylon for about thirty years, and died there in his fifties.