Born on 16 August 1900, eldest son of James Greenwood of Blackburn, he served for two years in the Royal Flying Corps in the first world war. Afterwards he studied pharmacy in Blackburn Technical College, and by means of scholarships he worked his way at St Bartholomew's Hospital to study medicine.

Born in London, the son of a Presbyterian minister, he was brought up in Plymouth and served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during the first world war. He read medicine at Edinburgh University and qualified in 1920. In 1927 Grierson was appointed to the new post of surgeon specialist

Born at Merthyr in 1865, he studied medicine at Bristol University, where he gained the Martyn memorial scholarship in pathology in 1888 and the Sanders scholarship in 1889, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He qualified in 1889 and then held house appointments at the Bristol General Hospita

Born on 10 March 1891, son of T L and S A Griffiths, he studied medicine at the University of Wales and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He served as a surgeon-probationer in the RNVR 1914-15, qualified in 1916, and was a surgeon to the 1st London Hospital 1916-18, being mentioned in dispatches. He was al

Born on 2 December 1919 at Rhos, a village near Wrexham, North Wales, John Lloyd Davies was the son of a general practitioner surgeon at Wrexham Hospital, and grandson of a general practitioner. Educated at Epsom College, he obtained a scholarship to St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1937, where he quali

Ellery Arthur Mulvihill Ryan was born in 1917 in Melbourne, the son of a leading ophthalmologist who exerted a great influence on his son's character and interest in sport of many kinds. He went to school as a boarder at Xavier College from the age of six till he was eighteen and left with the prize

Cooper, of a Parsi family, was educated at Bombay, at University College Hospital and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After an appointment as assistant honorary surgeon at the Metropolitan Hospital, London, he practised at Bombay and was for some years an examiner in surgery at the University of Bomba

Stanley Copley trained at Guy's Hospital, where he was a house surgeon and resident obstetrician, after qualifying in 1894. During 1898 he was house surgeon at the Stamford and Rutland General Infirmary; took the Fellowship and the Cambridge Public Health Diploma in 1899. He then emigrated to South

Born in 1879 he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital where he served as house surgeon, ophthalmic house surgeon, and chief assistant in the children's department; he was also house physician at the Metropolitan Hospital. Coventon qualified with the Conjoint Diplo

Ernest Cowell was born on 24 February 1886, son of Jasper Cowell of Steyning, Sussex, and was educated at Steyning Grammar School and University College Hospital Medical School where he graduated in 1907, taking the Conjoint Diploma the same year, and went on to take his MD degree in 1909 and the Fe

Ralph Coyte, or "Dan" as he was generally known to his friends, was born on 3 May 1893 and went to Bart's for his medical studies, and while there distinguished himself on the rugger field. Early in the first world war he served in the Royal Navy as a Surgeon Probationer, being discharged later to c

Debabrata Roy graduated in India and came to England for higher surgical training. He worked at the County Hospital, Louth, Lincolnshire from August 1966 till May 1969, and during this period he obtained the FRCS in December 1968. Roy was killed in a motor car accident on 22 May 1969, and was sur