Born on 19 August 1876 in Birmingham, son of John McGavin, he was educated at King Edward's High School and the University of Birmingham. He trained at the London Hospital, winning a gold medal and university scholarship. During the South African war he served as a civilian surgeon with the army, im

Born on 21 October 1875 the fifth child and fourth son of Samuel Pollard, a decorator, and his wife Mary Ann Marriott, he was educated at Nottingham grammar school and won an entrance scholarship to the London Hospital in 1894. After qualifying in 1899 he served as assistant medical officer to the N

Born 7 April 1866, the son of John Hayward, MRCS 1845, of Rushall, Wilts, who died on 19 November 1869, aged 45. His mother, *née* Fuller, was the daughter of the Steward of St Bartholomew's Hospital and died not long after her husband. He was educated at Marlborough College and St Bartholomew's Hos

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 on 7 January 1879 the son of William John Harnett FRCP Ed, LRCSI, of Barnet, Hertfordshire, he was educated at the City of London School and was a scholar of St John's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1899. He entered St Thomas's Hosp