Born at 11 London Wall on Nov. 1st, 1791, the only child of Joseph Green, a wealthy London merchant, head of the firm of Green & Ross, of Martin Lane, Cannon Street, E.C., and afterwards of London Wall, his mother being Frances, sister to Henry Cline, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital. A delicate boy

Born at Exeter on Dec. 12th, 1799, the third son of James Luke, merchant and banker, by his wife, who had been a Miss Ponsford, of Drewsteignton. He entered Blundell's School at Tiverton in 1813 and remained there until 1816, when, on the death of his father, he came to London and was articled to Jo

Born at Prestwich, Lancashire, and served his apprenticeship with John Goodman, of Salford, with his uncle, James Ogden, one of the leading medical men in Salford, and with his uncle's successor, William B Lumb. Young Fletcher took a keen interest from the first in science, especially in chemistry a

Born on June 13th, 1841, the son of Thomas Pickering Pick, merchant, of Liverpool. After going to the Royal Institution School, Liverpool, he entered St George's Hospital in 1857, at a time when the staff numbered such men as Caesar Hawkins, Prescott Hewett, the Lees, and George David Pollock; Timot

Born in London on March 13th, 1835, the son of Christopher Heath (1802-1876) and Eliza Barclay. His father was the well-known Irvingite who was instrumental in building the beautiful Catholic Apostolic Church in Gordon Square, where he afterwards acted as angel, or minister, of the congregation. Hea

One of the ten children of the Rev. Edward Hawkins, grandson of Sir Caesar Hawkins, Bart. (1711-1786), Surgeon to St. George's Hospital and Serjeant-Surgeon to George II and George III, who was descended from Colonel Caesar Hawkins, commanding a regiment of horse for Charles I. Caesar Hawkins was b

Born on July 3rd, 1812, the son of William N. W. Hewett, of Bilham House, near Doncaster, by his second wife. His father was a country gentleman whose fortune suffered from his love of horse-racing. Prescott Hewett received a good education and passed some years in Paris, where he acquired a perfect

Banerji was born on 23 March 1880 at Rawalpindi where his father was Head of the American Presbyterian Mission School. He joined the Calcutta Medical School in 1897 and qualified from there in 1904. After serving many appointments in Calcutta Banerji went to England and obtained his English Fello

Vyramji Bharucha was born in India on 21 February 1886 and obtained his medical education at Bombay University, the Middlesex Hospital and King's College, London. In 1910 he joined the Indian Medical Service with the rank of Lieutenant, becoming Captain in 1913, Major in 1922 and Lieutenant-Colonel

Albert Ernest Coates was born on 28 January 1895 at Ballarat, Victoria. His father was a minor postal official and his grandparents had emigrated from Suffolk and Cornwall, attracted by the news of the gold discovery. Leaving school at the age of eleven he decided early to become a doctor and he

Born at Warrington. He studied at University College, Liverpool, and at Edinburgh, where after graduation he acted as Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy under Sir James Russell and as Senior Demonstrator under Sir William Turner. Young then went to Manchester in 1877 as Demonstrator of Anatomy and As

Born on 4 August 1884 at Ealing, he was the son of William Digby (1849-1904), senior partner of William Hutchinson, East India merchants, and of his second wife, Sarah Maria Hutchinson. They were both from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. William Digby was a journalist in England and India and a liberal pol