Hugh Morgan Williams was born in Shrewsbury on 10 September 1908, the son of Roger Morgan Williams, a bank manager. He was taken as a young boy to South Africa where his first schooling was at Potchefstroum College in the Transvaal. Returning to England he entered Bedford School and went to St Barth

Born on 1 August 1863 in Alderney, Channel Islands, second son of William Vickery, engineer, and his wife, *née* Tucker. He was educated at Plymouth and at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, where he was senior Broderip scholar in 1887, the year of his qualification. He became an ardent admirer

Alan Doyle Everett was born in London on 8 October 1905, the first son of Herbert, a linen merchant, and Rhoda (Doyle) the daughter of an engineer. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St Bartholomew's Hospital qualifying MRCS in 1929 and gaining the FRCS and also the MS London in 1930. A

Victor Ariyaratnam Benjamin was a general practitioner in Goodooga, New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Jaffna in what was then Ceylon, the son of Charles Ariyanayagam Benjamin, a railway clerk and later station master, and Catherine Rose Gnanatheraviam Benjamin née Asirwatham, the daughter o

Born 27 May 1881, he was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire and later, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Guy's Hospital. He played association football for Guy's and also ran in the mile. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1906 and spent several years in house appointments at Guy's.

Arthur Nurick was chief medical officer to Williamson Diamonds Ltd, Tanzania, and later a general practitioner in Western Australia. He was the third and last child of Max Nurick, a north London GP, and Annie Nurick. After Haberdashers' Aske's School, he entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School

Brian Thomas Duffy, the son of John and Alice Duffy was born on 13 July 1922 at Rockhampton, Queensland and was the third of four children. The family moved to Sydney, New South Wales, in 1938 where he was educated at the Christian Brothers' College, Waverley, before entering the College of St John

Born on 15 October 1932 in Auckland, Doous attended the Mount Albert Grammar School, Auckland University College and the University of Otago where he graduated MB ChB in 1956, and where in his final year he was awarded the Sir Carrick Robertson Surgical Prize. He was junior and senior house surgeon

Leonard Snowden Debenham was born on 4 February 1893 and was educated at St Paul's School and Guy's Hospital, which he entered as a dental student but decided to study medicine. In 1916 he graduated BSc with honours and in 1918 qualified with the Conjoint Diploma. The following year he took the MB B

Bruce Christopher MacGregor Williamson was a general practitioner and an assistant surgeon at Melton and District War Memorial Hospital, Melton Mowbray. After qualifying MB BS in 1959, he held house posts at Middlesex Hospital. He went on to become an assistant lecturer at University College London

Aubrey Jansz, the youngest of three children, was born in Sri Lanka; his father was a bookstore manager and his mother a nurse. He initially attended Royal College, completing his secondary schooling at Alexandra College from where he won the prestigious Rustomjee Jamshediji Jeejeeboy Scholarship to

Was in the Honourable East India Company's Naval Service, next in general practice, and the proprietor of the Burman House Lunatic Asylum, Henley-in-Arden, where he died on September 4th, 1855. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Numismatic Society.