John Bruce Baird was born in Winton, Otago, New Zealand, on 29 July 1885, son of James Baird, a Presbyterian minister, and Elizabeth Stephen. Bruce was the youngest of seven children, five of whom became doctors; of these, two were girls: Helen and Agnes; they were among the earliest women medical s

Stanley Hoyte was born in Nottingham on 22 August, 1885. He was the seventh son of William Henry Hoyte, an architect and surveyor. He studied medicine at King's College and then at Westminster Hospital, graduating in 1910. Whilst a medical student he won the Victor Ludorum of the United Hospitals At

Duncan Stout was not deterred by having a famous father, Sir Robert, who became Chief Justice of New Zealand, Chancellor of the University and Prime Minister. In his own time he too achieved eminence in New Zealand, becoming Chairman of Council of Victoria University, Wellington and subsequently Cha

Francis Donaldson Saner, or Frank Saner as he was always known, was born in Hull on 24 August 1884, the youngest of ten children of a wealthy family. His father died whilst he was a teenager and his mother was the daughter of a merchant sea captain, there being seven sons and three daughters. After

Gerald Waddington Beresford was born at Markyate, Hertfordshire, on 22 April 1886 and educated at Wyggeston School, Leicester, where he distinguished himself both academically, gaining the science and other prizes, and athletically, winning the 100 and 250 yards open races and playing for the first

Henry Clarence Wardleworth Nuttall was born on 22 June 1886 and qualified at Liverpool University with the Conjoint Diploma in 1910. After junior hospital appointments in Liverpool he was Thelwall Thomas Fellow in surgical pathology, then Holt Fellow in pathology, and later Robert Gee Fellow in anat

Henzell Howard Dummere came from a family of doctors, his father, Howard Howse Dummere MRCS, four uncles and his brother were all medical men, as was his father-in-law. One of his uncles, Neville Howse, had a distinguished career: gaining his FRCS, he emigrated to Australia at the age of twenty-eigh

Ernest Gerald Stanley was born in Brixton on 24 December 1886 and was educated at Marlborough and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1910, and in 1912 he took the FRCS and the MS. After resident appointments at Bart's he became a demonstrator of anatomy, and honorar

Herbert Henry Sampson was born in Sutton Coldfield on 5 October 1886. After education at King Edward VI School, Birmingham, he entered the University where he was reputed to have won all the prizes, scholarships and distinctions and was also victor ludorum. On graduating in 1909 he became a houseman

Born on 22 November 1885 at Leicester, the son of Samuel Bilson Noon, solicitor, he was educated at Blair Lodge, Stirling, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon to Sir Holburt Waring and Sir Charles Gordon-Watson, and as chief assistant in the gynaecology department unde

Born at Mount Albert, Canada, in 1878. He was educated at Toronto University, where he graduated MB in 1906. He came afterwards to England and studied at the London Hospital, at University College Hospital, and at the Middlesex Hospital. After returning to Canada for some years, he served in the Can

Born on 8 December 1886 the son of William and Lucy Sutton Simmonds, he was educated at Bancroft's School, the Middlesex Hospital and St Bartholomew's, qualifying in 1910. He served as house physician, house surgeon and casualty officer at the Middlesex Hospital, and then went into general practice