David Matthew Mitchell was born in New Zealand in 1895 and was educated at the Otago Boys' High School and at Otago Medical School. He qualified in 1920 and in 1921 entered general practice. In 1925 he came to Great Britain and obtained the FRCS Edinburgh. In 1929 he returned to England a second tim

John Wingate Maltby was a general practitioner and surgeon in Tiverton, Devon. He was born in London in 1928, the son of Henry Wingate Maltby, a doctor. He was educated at Trinity College School, Ontario, Canada, and Marlborough College, and went on to Cambridge University and St Bartholomew's Hospi

Aubrey Jansz, the youngest of three children, was born in Sri Lanka; his father was a bookstore manager and his mother a nurse. He initially attended Royal College, completing his secondary schooling at Alexandra College from where he won the prestigious Rustomjee Jamshediji Jeejeeboy Scholarship to

Professionally educated at St George's Hospital. He practised first at Stockport, where he was Surgeon to the Infirmary Fever Wards and to the Queen's Lying-in Institute. At the latter institution he lectured on midwifery and the diseases of women and children. Removing to Poole, he was at the time

Born in June, 1819, at Heckington, Lincolnshire, and was apprenticed for the sum of £294 for five years in 1834 to Wilson Wade, of the Westminster Dispensary, Gerrard Street, Soho. His indenture stated that he was apprenticed for the purpose of being instructed in the arts, business, or professions

For most of his career Peter Woodland Hunt was one of the few surgeons in the vast country of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). There he rapidly learnt to cope efficiently with mine accidents, ophthalmics, plastics and obstetrics, in addition to a heavy general surgical workload. He was born in Dubli

Was in the Honourable East India Company's Naval Service, next in general practice, and the proprietor of the Burman House Lunatic Asylum, Henley-in-Arden, where he died on September 4th, 1855. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Numismatic Society.

Born in 1897, Daniel Alexander Davies first took the BSc and then studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital. He qualified in 1922, became house surgeon there, and later whole time demonstrator of anatomy. In 1926, after taking the FRCS Davies settled at Deal. He combined the skills of a first-rate ge

Ronald Thomas Todd was the senior surgeon at Ipswich Hospital, Queensland, Australia. He was born in Brisbane on 16 January 1925, the eldest son of Frederick Edmund Todd, an optometrist, and Rose Emma Todd née Thomas, a business secretary. He attended the Church of England Grammar School, Brisbane,

Richard Taor was a medical leader in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and contributed significantly to the setting of standards for measuring and ensuring the quality of medical care in western Newfoundland. He was an assistant professor with the medical school at Memorial University in St John's,

Bernard Graham Scholefield was born at Blackheath on 7 May 1899, the only son of Robert Ernest Scholefield, a general practitioner who had held a Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship from Oxford. His mother, Elizabeth Graham (née Marshall), was daughter of a former Vicar of Blackheath and Canon of Roches

William Crisp was born in Edinburgh on 5 December 1914, being the eldest son of Thomas Crisp (MD Edin) who was a medical practitioner and his wife, Janet (née Cowie). In 1921 the family moved to Chorley, Lancs, where Thomas established himself in general practice. William went to Bolton School and t