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

Born 1872, the youngest child of Alfred Howse, MRCS 1849, and Lucy Elizabeth, daughter of J H C Beresford Conroy, of Rosevale, Raheny, Co Dublin. He was thus a brother of Sir Neville Reginald Howse, VC, FRCS. His father practised at Stogursey, Somerset, and previously in Victoria Docks Road, London,

Born on 16 December 1870, the second child and only son of the Rev William Lee, a Congregational minister and missionary, and his wife née Sargent, he was educated at Bedford School and Bishop's Stortford grammar school, taking his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which he entered with

Stanley Copley trained at Guy's Hospital, where he was a house surgeon and resident obstetrician, after qualifying in 1894. During 1898 he was house surgeon at the Stamford and Rutland General Infirmary; took the Fellowship and the Cambridge Public Health Diploma in 1899. He then emigrated to South

Born 16 June 1871, the eldest child of Samuel Cookson, MRCS MD St Andrews 1862, of Stafford, and his wife Jane Grace, daughter of Henry Day, FRCP 1879, MRCS 1842, and widow of Mr Gibson. He was educated at Epsom College and at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was Freer Lucas scholar and subsequently

Born 2 January 1872 at 162 York Road, Lambeth, London, SE, the third son of George Miskin, MRCS 1863, and his wife Elizabeth Mannering. His grandfather Nicholas Miskin, MRCS 1835, practised at the same address. He was educated at King's College, Strand, and St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying in 1894.

Born in London 28 December 1870, the fourth child and only son of Henry Duffett, solicitor, and Emma Davis, his wife. He was educated at Sherborne School when the Rev E Mallet Young was headmaster. He entered Wildman's house in Newlands, which subsequently became a convent, in summer term 1885 and l

Born at Liverpool, 31 October 1866, second child and eldest son of William Stone, solicitor, and Catherine Fleetwood Nelson, his wife. He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took second-class honours in moderations and literae humaniores (classical "Greats"). He received hi

Born on 15 August 1871 at 136 Burdett Road, Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, the second child and second son of Ebenezer Ince, a merchant's clerk, and Sarah Hastings Farrow, his wife. He was educated at Northgate School, Winchester, and took his medical training at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School

Born 1 February 1870, the eldest child of Joseph Dixon Adams, MD St Andrews 1862, MRCS 1858, who practised at Martock, Somerset, and his wife Arabella Beadon. He was educated at King's College, Taunton and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which he served as house surgeon. After a term as clinical as

Frank Colby was born at The Mount, New Malton, Yorks, on 27 January 1865, the second son of Dr W Taylor Colby, JP and the younger brother of J G E Colby, FRCS. He was educated at St Peter's School, York, and matriculated from King's College, Cambridge, after winning an open scholarship in science. H

Born at Newport, Fife on 26 October 1869, eldest of the four sons and a daughter of John Prain of Dundee and Sara Elizabeth Leay, his wife. His father was afterwards agent of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co at Panama and at Valparaiso, Chile. Prain was educated at Cheltenham College, 1882-88, and at