Born on 18 March 1878 at Streatham Hill, London, the only son of John Taylor, wine merchant of Dean Street, Tooley Street, London Bridge and Alice Miller Gordon daughter of William Gordon, stockbroker of Union Street, Aberdeen; he and his sister were taken by their mother to Aberdeen when their fath

Born at Sandford House, Highbury, New Park, London on 30 November 1870, the tenth child and sixth son of John Henry Hewer, MRCS, LSA 1852, and Annie Langton his wife, sister of John Langton, FRCS. There were eleven children of the marriage, and the seven brothers entered the medical profession. Ceci

The seventh son and youngest (eleventh) child of John Henry Hewer, MRCS (see the preceding memoir of C M Hewer), he was born on 7 October 1875. He was educated at University College School and from there proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was secretary and vice-president of the Abernet

Born 14 December 1878, the second son and third child of Robert Harry Hughes, MB, who was in general practice at Plymouth, and his wife Laetitia Cavanagh Jervis. His elder brother Lawson Jervis Hughes, after training at Guy's Hospital, was killed in the South African war, when he was serving as a mo

Charles D'Oyly Grange was born at Moffat, Scotland, in 1887. His father was an Edinburgh graduate in medicine and a general practitioner, first at Moffat and later for many years at Harrogate during the summer and at Bournemouth during the winter. Grange's early professional training was at the L

George Bell was born at Shelford, Victoria, on 10 July 1882. He was the eldest of the large family of Lewis and Annie Bell (née Armstrong), who were among the early pioneering pastoralists of south-western New South Wales. From Scots College, Sydney where he was dux and captain, as well as playing c

Born 14 September 1862, the fourth child and third son of D Brown, of Harrow Park, and his wife Anna Maria Charlotte Wright. He was educated at Harrow and at University College Hospital, where he was Filliter exhibitioner and Atchison scholar. He was a contemporary and life-long friend of John Rose

Edward Thomas Campbell Milligan was born on 23 June 1886 at Waterloo, near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, where his father mined gold. When the gold vein ran out the family moved to Stanwell, near Melbourne. They came of Methodist stock and this showed its effects throughout Milligan's life, in his

Born at Dalry, Ayrshire on 25 March 1872, the fifth son and ninth youngest child of Andrew Blair Aitken and his wife Jane Young. He was educated at the Ayrshire Academy, Ayr, and at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1893. After holding resident appointments at Oldham Infirmary and the Wirral

Born 1881 at Worcester, the younger son of Tom Bates, MRCS 1868, and Alice Mary Davis, his wife. The elder son, Tom Bates, was also a Fellow. Mark Bates was educated at King's School, Worcester, and at St John's College, Oxford, where he took third-class honours in physiology in the final school of

Born in London 15 September 1863, the eldest child of Raymond Johnson and his wife Barbara Wells. He was educated at Argyll College, Holland Park and at University College, London, where he won an entrance exhibition in 1881. He took his clinical training at University College Hospital and during th

Born 13 September 1854 at Hull, Yorkshire, the sixth child and third son of William Joseph Lunn, FRCS by election, and Mary Heath Craven his wife. His grandfather, William Lunn, was also elected a Fellow. There we thus three generations elected into the Fellowship, a unique distinction. He was ed