Cluny Macpherson was born at St John's, Newfoundland on 18 March 1879, eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Campbell Macpherson and Emma Duder, his wife. Campbell Macpherson had created the Royal Stores, which spread most successfully through Newfoundland, and had been noted for his gifts to

Born on 1 April 1915 in Doublebois, Liskeard, Cornwall, to a family that had served India for five generations, Peter Anthony Lane Roberts was educated at Cheltenham and then went with a classical scholarship to Wadham. At Oxford he read medicine, rowed and played rugby football, gaining a trial cap

Harold Park was horn on 26 July 1909 at Preston, Lancashire, and studied medicine in Edinburgh, qualifying in 1932. His early appointments included the posts of casualty officer at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and resident medical officer at St Paul's Hospital for Genito-Urinary Diseases. In 1938

Educated at St Thomas' and Guy's Hospitals, having previously been a pupil of William Tomblin Keal, of Oakham. At Grantham, where he settled, he enjoyed a good private practice, and was also Surgeon to the Grantham District of the Great Northern Railway. He was Surgeon to the Royal South Lincoln Mil

Studied at University College Hospital, acted as House Surgeon to the Shrewsbury Infirmary from 1837-1848, and was then appointed Surgeon. He was also Surgeon to the Shropshire and Montgomery Counties Lunatic Asylum, practising at St Mary's Court, Shrewsbury. He was much interested in archaeology

Born at Beccles, Suffolk, he was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house physician. He practised from 1897 to 1940 at Plymouth. Fox married Constance Marion Fox at the Friends Meeting House, Plymouth on 2 June 1898. They celebrated their golden wedding in 1948, but Mrs Fox di

Born on 18 January 1865, the eldest child of John Heygate Vernon, an architect, and Caroline Miller, his wife. He was educated at Mill Hill School and at St George's Hospital, where he gained the W Brown exhibition, serving as house surgeon, demonstrator of anatomy and physiology, and clinical assis

Born 10 June 1869 at the Swan Hotel, Bucklow Hill, Rotherne, Knutsford, Cheshire, the son of James Henry Cuff of Rangemore, Altrincham, Cheshire, manufacturer of mineral waters, and Katherine Elizabeth Greaves, his wife. He was educated at Bowdon College, Cheshire and at Owen's College, Manchester.

Born at Tiverton, Devon in 1849, son of Frederick Mackenzie, MRCS 1838, coroner to the borough of Tiverton. He was educated at Blundell's School, then still housed in the town of Tiverton but now outside it, and came to the London Hospital for his medical training. He served the Hospital as resident

The son of Dr J W Clarke, of Huddersfield, praised by Sir William Broadbent as "the best general practitioner he had ever met". He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he had been a Foundation Scholar, and was 33rd Wrangler. He received his medical education at the University, and compl

Educated at St Thomas's Hospital. He was at one time Assistant Medical Officer at the North Riding Lunatic Asylum, Clifton, near York, and served in the American Civil War as Staff Surgeon to the 1st Cavalry Division of the Army Western Department of the Confederated States. Later he settled in prac

The third son of John Cock, junr, an underwriter at Lloyd's, by his marriage with Maria, daughter of Baron Hesse, of Potsdam in Prussia, was born at Tottenham, Middlesex, on January 26th, 1805. The family of Cock was connected with that of Henry Cline, Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, and it was thr