Born on 31 December 1880 son of Albert Kisch MRCS who was in general practice for many years in Sunderland Avenue, and grandson of Joseph Kisch MRCS, an obstetric surgeon of 2 Circus Place, Finsbury, he was educated at the City of London School and St Thomas's where he qualified in 1904. He was Musg

Born in Lincoln, he was educated at Neuheim College, Heidelberg, Felsted School and the London Hospital where, after qualifying in 1904, he acted as house surgeon, house physician, aural house surgeon and receiving room officer. After being admitted a Fellow in 1909, he returned to Lincoln to pra

Born on 12 August 1880 he was educated at University College, London, where he was Bucknill Scholar, and at University College Hospital where he gained the Atkinson Morley surgery scholarship and was house surgeon, demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer on surgical anatomy. During the war of 1914-1

William Munby was born in North Shields on 22 May 1881 and received his medical education at Edinburgh University where he qualified in 1904. He became house surgeon to the Central London Ear Nose and Throat Hospital and senior house surgeon to the Cancer Hospital, Fulham Road. Later he held the app

William Stirk Adams was born at Acocks Green, Worcestershire, on 31 May 1896 and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. His father was a schoolmaster. He won an entrance scholarship to Birmingham University in 1915. He served as a Surgeon Probationer RNVR in 1916 to 1917; qualified MRCS LRCP

William Daggett, the only son of a Yorkshire general practitioner, was born at Boroughbridge on 2 October, 1900. From a preparatory school at Marston Moor he went as an exhibitioner to Sedberg School and then to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. After securing a first class Natural Science Trip

Charles Skinner Hallpike was born in India on 19 July, 1900, the son of F R Hallpike and Helen Skinner. He was educated at St Paul's School, entered Guy's Hospital with a scholarship and obtained the Beany Prize in pathology and qualified in 1926. His interest in the ear started when he was a house

Naganath Hanamanthrao Mahindrakar was joint head of the ENT department at Royal Bolton Hospital. He was born in Dharwad, India on 3 September 1932. His father, Hanamanthrao Appaji, was a businessman selling cigarettes wholesale; his mother, Parwatbai, was a housewife. He was educated at Karnatak Hig

James Ivor Griffiths was born in Tredegar on 26 December 1901, the son of James Evan Griffiths and Naomi, née Morgan. He was awarded a scholarship to the University of Wales in Cardiff where he graduated BSc in 1921. He won an open scholarship to University College Hospital, qualifying MRCS, LRCP in

Kenneth John Hadley was born in Birmingham in 1925 and after early education entered the University of Birmingham to study physics, graduating with first class honours in 1946. He then worked in the medical physics department of Queen Elizabeth Hospital and during this time became interested in a me

Jan Milan Kodicek was born in Prague in 1924 but after the invasion of Czechoslovakia, while still a schoolboy, he was forced to leave his native land and seek refuge in Britain. He entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1945 and after house appointments in general surgery and EN

Kenneth Lennox Wilson, the son of the Rt Rev Cecil Wilford Wilson, Anglican Bishop of Middleton, and of Winifred Marion Wilson (née McCall), was born at Bath, Somerset, on 11 October 1918. He was educated at Sedbergh Preparatory School, Marlborough College and Christ's College, Cambridge, before ent