Born at Larne, Co Antrim about 1880 the son of John Moore Killen MD, he was educated at Queen's College, Belfast and graduated in arts in the Royal University of Ireland, winning first-class honours and an exhibition; he proceeded to his medical degrees in 1903. After postgraduate study at the Londo

Born at Sheffield on 13 November 1882, the third child and second son of Alfred Reckless, MRCS 1873, and Helena Herbert Hall, his wife. He was educated at Bedford College, at the Sheffield Medical School, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He served as junior house surgeon at Sheffield Royal

Born in Eastern Bengal, 23 June 1878, the sixth child and second son of Frederick William Joseph Rees, of the Bengal civil service, and Alice Hawthorn Heathcote, his wife. He was educated at Haileybury and the Middlesex Hospital, where he won a prize in anatomy and in 1899 a second-year exhibition,

Born at Shooter's Hill, Blackheath, SE, on 24 July 1877, the second son and second child of Colonel Joseph Sladen, RA, JP and DL for Kent and the Cinque Ports, and his wife Lady Sarah Lambart, daughter of the eighth Earl of Cavan. He was educated privately, at Ripple Court near Dover, and at the Lon

Guinane graduated from the University of Sydney in 1927, and served as house surgeon (1927-28) and senior house surgeon (1928-29) at the Prince Alfred Hospital. He was resident medical officer at the Sydney Women's Hospital 1929-30 and at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children 1930-31. He then ca

Born on 1 August 1886 second son of Tissington W G Tatlow of Drumrora, Co Cavan, Ireland, he was educated at Trinity College and the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, where he won the Hudson prize. He qualified in 1911, and served as house surgeon to Berkeley Moynihan at the General Infirmary, Leeds. He wa

Born on 19 January 1899 at Tongwynlais, Glamorgan, the son of a civil engineer, he was educated at Charterhouse and, on leaving school at the age of eighteen, he joined the army and was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery with No 119 Siege Battery, serving in France where he was wounded.

Alfred Charles Fisher was born on 26 June 1905 in Lurgan, Co Armagh. Both his father and uncle were physicians. When five months old he went with his parents to Northern Rhodesia; en route he was carried over the girders of the uncompleted Victoria Falls bridge before the roadway was put on. He was

William Bruce Norris Bomford, known as 'Bruce', was chief medical officer of British Petroleum. He was born in Salford Priors, near Evesham, Worcestershire on 7 February 1919. His father, Benjamin Norris Bomford, was a farmer and market gardener; his mother, Elsie Bomford née Fisher, was the daughte

Kenneth Sweetman qualified in Melbourne where he did junior posts. Later he worked as a surgical specialist in the Government Hospital in Tripoli, Libya and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Aden. His last position was Chief Medical Officer to the Shell Petroleum Company in Brunei. He retired to Hindhea

Margery Scott-Young was a consultant surgeon at the Rachel Forster Hospital, Sydney. She was born on 25 May 1912 in North Sydney, the daughter of Reginald Charles Scott-Young, a sales manager, and Mary née Crotty. She was educated at the Monte Sant' Angelo College in Sydney and the University of Syd

Born 15 December 1869 at Wemdder Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire, the fourth child and third son of William Richards, a farmer, and Elizabeth Morgan, his wife. He received his medical education at the London Hospital, at St Bartholomew's, and at the University of Durham. He visited afterwards Berlin and Pa