Born on 11 August 1891 to John Shufflebotham, a Birmingham grocer, Hilda was educated at King Edward's High School for Girls and at the University of Birmingham where, with the reluctant consent of her father, she studied medicine. She graduated BSc in 1914 and MB ChB two years later, and obtained a

James Vincent O'Sullivan was born on 27 November 1899 and educated at University College, Galway, and the London Hospital. He graduated in medicine with first-class honours in 1924 and passed MD with distinction, FRCS, MRCP MAO and FRCOG all within the space of three years. He was attached to more h

John Edwin Forde Bruce was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Nottingham. He gained his FRCS in 1967. He carried out his postgraduate training in London and in 1975 was appointed as a consultant at King’s Mill Hospital, Mansfield and the City Hospital, Nottingham. He was president of

Richard Braithwaite Keevil Rickford, the first of similar twins of Leslie Thomas Rickford, a banker, and Gladys Georgina Rickford (née Keevil), was born on 1 June 1914, at Hampstead. He was educated at The Gables, Bexhill-on-Sea, and then at the junior and senior schools of Weymouth College, Dors

Richard Maliphant was born in Merthyr Tydfil on 17 January 1900, the second son of Richard Maliphant, an official in the Cyfartha steel works, and of Mary Morgan, daughter of a coal merchant. He was educated at Cyfartha Secondary School and went straight into the RNVR where he served in 1917-1918 as

Percy Malpas was educated at Merchant Taylor's School, Crosby, and graduated in medicine at Liverpool in 1923. After resident appointments he passed the FRCS in 1926 and the ChM in 1928. He then decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology and was later elected FRCOG in 1937. He was appointed

Ian Alexander McDonald was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 1 April 1922, the son of Neil McDonald, a Presbyterian Minister, who at one stage was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Western Australia. His paternal grandfather had emigrated from the Western Isles, and his grandmother Munroe,

An accomplished and successful obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dame Josephine was also known to the wider world for her devotion to social and educational reform, and was seen by many as an exemplar for the role of professional women in modern society. Josephine Barnes, happily known to her famil

Keren Parkes was born on 18 December 1904 in Dulwich, the only daughter of Alexander Parkes, an accountant. She was educated at Streatham College for Girls, Somerville House, St Leonards-on-Sea and went on to King's College and King's College Hospital. At the age of twelve she decided that she wante

Murray was educated at Anderson College, Glasgow, and qualified with the licences of the Edinburgh Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1945. He subsequently gained the College's Fellowship in 1951 and became a Member and Fellow of the Royal

Humphrey Arthure was born in Tibberton, Worcestershire, on 27 January 1906, the son of Harry Edgar Erskine Arthure, Vicar of Mickleton, Gloucestershire, and Maud Mary, née Donnison, whose father was first Notary Public of the City of London. He was educated at Hillstone Preparatory School, Malvern a

Barnett was born on 24 December 1909, and studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School London, qualifying in 1932, and obtained his Fellowship in 1937. He decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology, becoming MRCOG in 1942 and FRCOG in 1956. He went to Shropshire as a co