Born 10 March 1881 at Hinckley, Leicestershire, the second child and only son of Edward Simpson, a schoolmaster, and Charlotte McCann, his wife. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar, and took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos,

Born at Shafton, Bluefield, Jamaica, in 1885, the eldest son of Frederick Archibald Sinclair, MB Edinburgh 1882, and his wife. He came to England at the age of sixteen, and made his own way while completing his education. At the London Hospital, which he entered in 1903, he won the Anderson and dres

Born about 1887, he was educated at University College Hospital where he was Atkinson Morley surgical scholar and won University medals in several subjects, scientific and clinical. He held resident posts there and at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, but went to Sydney in 1915. He was commission

Born on 3 October 1884 in London the son of Mortimer Woolf (afterwards OBE) and his wife Miriam, he was educated at Clifton College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge taking third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1905. He took his clinical training at the London Hospital, where he s

Washington Everitt Wilks qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1908, and proceeded to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1911. In 1912 he settled in British Columbia and practised in Victoria and Nanamio. After about 9 years he moved to Vancouver where he worked for 45 years, ret

Born at Gillingham, Kent on 12 November 1883, he was educated at St Thomas's Hospital where he won numerous prizes and the Musgrove Scholarship. After qualifying in 1908 he held house appointments at St Thomas's, and filled posts at the Royal Free Hospital, the West London Hospital and the Royal Sal

Reginald Martin Vick was born on 20 July 1884 at West Hartlepool, and was educated at Leys School and Jesus College, Cambridge, and came to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical studies. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1908, and after house appointment at Bart's became a demonstrator

Born 11 October 1882, the third child and only son of Samuel Buckley, FRCS, consulting physician to the Clinical (now the Northern) Hospital for Diseases of Women and Children, Manchester, and his wife, Florence Woolley. He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, and took first-class h

Percival Templeton Crymble was born on 21 March 1880 and graduated at the Royal University of Ireland in 1904. After acting as demonstrator of anatomy in Belfast he took his Fellowship in 1908 and then studied in London and Vienna. When he returned to Ireland in 1910 he was appointed assistant surge

Born at Birmingham on 15 September 1884, second son of Walter John Lloyd, manufacturer, and his wife, née Bolton. He was educated there at King Edward's School and at the University, of which he was an exhibitioner. He took his clinical training at the London Hospital, and graduated in medicine and

Born at Southampton in 1884, he was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in Natural Sciences (1905), and won an exhibition to Guy's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to Sir Charles Symonds. Crook settled in practice in partnership with Dr Astley Roberts at Ea

Born on 18 January 1884 he was educated at Sydney Grammar School, matriculating in 1901. Early in his medical course he showed his interest in practical work and shared the Haswell Prize for practical biology, winning the John Harris scholarship in his third year. He was top in the fourth and fifth