Percival John Moir was born in Glasgow on 26 July 1893 to Frederick Moir, a calico printer, and his wife Constance Ada, née Dickie. He attended Kelvinside Academy and Glasgow University, qualifying in 1914. He served as house surgeon to the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, for three to four months before

No information is available about Leo Charles McCarthy beyond that contained in issues of the *New Zealand Medical Register*. He qualified MB, ChB New Zealand in 1939, obtained the Fellowship of the College in 1948 and that of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1951, and that at some time

Ernest Thom McCartney was born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, the son of Robert McCartney, a chemist, and his wife, Kathleen, née Thom. He was educated at Coleraine Institute and Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied medicine. He went on to training posts at Victoria Central Hospital, Wallasey,

Henry Moore was born in Fiji in 1912, and graduated MB BS from Sydney in 1937. Following graduation he came to Britain with two research fellowships in 1938. He served in the RAMC throughout the war in the Middle East, Italy and Western Europe, and was awarded the MC in Belgium (for 'liberating a ca

Owen David Morris, born in Port Madoc, Wales, on 24 February 1916, was the eldest son of John Morris, master mariner, and Mary Jones. He was educated at Port Madoc Grammar School and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, where he qualified MRCS LRCP in 1939. He was the twenty-second member of h

Frank Evans was a consultant general surgeon in Liverpool. He was born in Ffynnongrowy, a small mining village in north Wales on 20 May 1910. His father Evan Evans was the local GP, who had originally been apprenticed to a qualified doctor and by the time he started medical training in Glasgow had a

Born on 24 December 1906 in Tyrwaun, Ystalyfera, Swansea, David Lincoln Lewis was the son of William James Lewis, a medical practitioner, and Constance Mary Adeney, whose father owned Swaine and Adeney, the shop in Piccadilly. His younger brother, Ronald Swaine Lewis (qv this vol) was also FRCS. He

Gerald Thomas Mullally was born on 31 October 1887 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, whither his father, William Mullally, MD, who had been in family practice in Tipperary, had emigrated, and where he died of acute appendicitis with peritonitis when young, Gerald being 7 years old at that time. H

John Whigham was born in Brook Street, London, and educated at Westminster City School, where he won the gold medal as the best pupil of his year and a scholarship to St Mary's Hospital. He qualified in 1913 at the age of 21. He joined the East Lancashire Regiment at the outbreak of the first wor

Educated at the University of Edinburgh and at the London Hospital. He was House Physician and then House Surgeon at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, and later House Surgeon at the Birmingham and Midland Ear and Throat Hospital. During the European War he served with distinction, being awarded the Mil

Born at Warrenport, Co Down, the son of Isaac Corkey and a nephew of Sir William Whitla, Professor of Medicine at Belfast. He was educated at the University of Dublin, where he won a medical scholarship at Trinity College in 1913. He served with distinction during the Great War, winning the Military

The youngest of four sons of Samuel Farrant, of Taunton, Somerset. His father had a widely extended practice around Taunton, and was well known in the county with its large sporting interests, as well as being Surgeon to the Hospital. (*Lancet*, 1903, ii, 846.) All four brothers were educated at Wes