Harold Hugh Gamlin Francis was a consultant obstetric and gynaecological surgeon at the United Liverpool Hospitals, and a senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool Medical School. He studied medicine at Otago University, New Zealand, qualifying MB BS in 1944. He was a house surgeon at Wellin

Malcolm Stening was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Sydney, Australia. He was born in Sydney on 17 August 1912, the third son of George Smith Stening, a dairy expert, and Muriel Grafton Stening née Lees, the daughter of a printer who was also mayor of Sydney. Stening was educated at Sydney Boys

Born 1 December 1854 the elder son of the Rev John Griffith, LLD, head master of Brighton College, and his wife Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Foster of Brooklands, Cambridge. His younger brother Francis Llewellyn Griffith, DLitt, became professor of Egyptology at Oxford and died in 1934. He w

Born on 20 May 1904 at Oamaru in the South Island of New Zealand, fourth child and third son of Walter Searle, a car importer, and Mary Fox his wife, he was educated at Waitaki Boys High School and Otago Medical School, Dunedin. After postgraduate study at Guy's Hospital, he devoted himself to gynae

Born at Birmingham on 12 December 1897 son of Isaac Shaw JP, he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and at St John's College, Cambridge where he was an open entrance scholar and won a foundation scholarship and Wright's prize and took first-class honours in the first part of the Natural

Frank Cook was the son of Frank Plant Cook, and was born on 6 November 1888 at Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. He went to Bedford Modern School and Guy's Hospital Medical School, where he had a brilliant career as a student. Having obtained a university scholarship and research studentship in

Frank O'Gorman was born at Bradford on 11 September 1910. No information is available about his forbears, but when he was ten years old his family moved to Glasgow where he was educated at the Jesuit School of St Aloysius before studying medicine at Glasgow University. An outstanding athlete, he pla

Born at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, on February 3rd, 1818, the son of William Wells, a builder, by his wife Harriet, daughter of William Wright, of Bermondsey. He soon showed a marked interest in natural science and was sent as a pupil, without being formally apprenticed, to Michael Thomas Sadler, a

Alan Falconer had a long and varied surgical career in the Royal Navy, practising initially as a general surgeon before training as an obstetrician and gynaecologist. After he left the Navy, he became a school doctor at Sedbergh School in Cumbria. He was born in Darlington on 2 June 1921, the eldest

Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian was governor general of Saint Christopher and Nevis. He was born in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts (as the island of Saint Christopher is commonly known), on 22 October 1921. His father, Joseph Matthew Sebastian, founded the labour movement on Saint Ki

Born at Enfield Highway on 21 April 1855, eldest son and second of the nine children of Charles William Sutton, who had a farm where he fattened stock, killed it and sold it in Formosa Street, Maida Hill. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Wadsworth, a Northamptonshire farmer. Bland-Sutton