Rees Lloyd-Jones was a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born in Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, north Wales, the only child of Griffith and Marie Lloyd Jones; his father was a farmer and garage owner. They were Welsh speaking and strict Methodists, which

Eleanor Mary Mills was a consultant gynaecologist at North Manchester General Hospital and Stretford Memorial Hospital, Manchester. She was born in Royton, Lancashire, the only child of Joseph Mills, a cotton mill manager and director, and Ada Eleanor Mills née Wood, the daughter of an engineer. She

Born 3 August 1863 at Goos Vladimir, Russia, the sixth child and fifth son of William Edge, engineer, and his wife, née Pollitt. He was educated at Bolton Grammar School and at Owens College, Manchester. He then proceeded to St Thomas's Hospital and afterwards took postgraduate courses at Munich and

Born at Hulme Fields, Manchester, on November 2nd, 1793, the son of John Radford, dyer and bleacher. He was educated at a private school in Chester, and was apprenticed to his uncle, William Wood, surgeon, of Manchester, whose partner and successor he afterwards became. He studied at Guy's and St Th

Born 16 October 1865, eldest son of G A Berkeley of Belgrave Road, London, SW, a wine importer, and his wife Sarah Louisa, second daughter of Thomas Moore of The Wergs, Wolverhampton. His father was related to the family of Berkeley, Earls of Berkeley. Comyns Berkeley was educated at Marlborough and

Born 21 May 1888 the fourth son of Louis Rivett, cotton-spinner, of Stockport, High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, and his wife, née Smith. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, in 1909. He received his cl

David Morris was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in London. David and his younger brother Gareth were the sons of the headmaster of a school in Briton Ferry, a small mining town in south Wales. David won a scholarship to Neath Grammar School but, with a family move during the Second Worl

Born at Dundee on 13 January 1886, younger brother of Herbert Leith Murray (1880-1932) Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Liverpool, he graduated from St Andrews University and held resident posts at Dundee Royal Infirmary and in London at Paddington Green Children's Hospital, Chelsea Hospit

Philip Chalk was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He was born on 1 May 1930 in Southend, Essex, the son of Charles Philip Chalk and Ann Chalk née Forbes; both his parents were teachers. He was educated at Newport Free Grammar School, Essex. He carried o

Born on 13 May 1887, Andrew Carey McAllister entered the medical department of King's College, London, in 1905. He qualified with the Conjoint diploma in 1912, held house appointments at King's College Hospital, and became obstetric registrar in 1914. When war broke out he obtained a commission in t

Born in 1889 the eldest son of S W McCullagh of Belfast, he was educated at the Methodist College and Queen's University. On the outbreak of war he joined the RAMC and served throughout in France, winning the MC at the beginning and the DSO at the end of the war and being five times mentioned in dis

Born on 3 August 1890 one of the four children of John Martin McCurrich, chief engineer of the Bristol and Avonmouth Dock, he was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Vienna. Qualifying in 1915, he joined the Army as a combatant in the Middlesex Regiment but was later