Born on October 9 1900 at Leicester, the second daughter of William Frederick Linford, a marine engineer, and Sarah Elizabeth Basford, Hilda Linford was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester and Manchester University, obtaining the University Prize in medicine in 1921. From 1924 to 1926 sh

Charles Aubrey Pannett, born in Shepherd's Bush, London, on 21 September 1884, was the only son of Charles Yeatman Pannett, an ironmonger, and Louisa (née Sealey). An elder son had died in infancy. There were three daughters in the family. The family was poor, so from his youth Pannett had accust

Eric John Greenwood was born on 10 October 1902 in Greenwich, London, the only son of Eustace Noel Greenwood, an accountant and former mayor of Greenwich, and Gertrude Freida Scarr. He was educated at the Rowan School, Greenwich, before starting medicine at Guy's Hospital in 1918. He then went to Do

Born 24 August 1877 at Frogmoor House, High Wycombe, Bucks, in the house where his grandfather, William Hayden, LSA 1837, MRCS 1856, and his father, William Gallimore Hayden, MRCS 1863, had successively practised medicine. His mother was Elizabeth Matilda, daughter of William Falconer, who founded t

Pamela Ball was a surgeon at Kidderminster General Hospital and at the West Midlands regional plastic surgery centre at Wordsley Hospital. She was born Pamela Margaret Moody on 28 November 1926 in Half Way Tree, a neighbourhood of Kingston, Jamaica. Her mother was Vera Holme Moody née Manley, sister