Born 4 June 1882 at Blackburn, Lancashire, the eighth child and fourth son of John Thompson, cotton manufacturer, and Alice Whitworth, his wife. He was educated at Repton and at Heidelberg College in Germany. Entering the Victoria University, Manchester, he graduated in medicine with second-class ho

Born at Eastbourne in 1886, son of a practitioner, he was educated at Eastbourne College and Edinburgh University. After qualification he held resident appointments at the Royal Infirmary and was President of the Royal Medical Society. Coming south he became senior resident medical officer at the Ro

Born on 19 August 1876 in Birmingham, son of John McGavin, he was educated at King Edward's High School and the University of Birmingham. He trained at the London Hospital, winning a gold medal and university scholarship. During the South African war he served as a civilian surgeon with the army, im

Harry Guy Dain was born at Birmingham on 5 November 1870, and was educated at King Edward's Grammar School, and Josiah Mason's College (the medical department of Queen's College, Birmingham) qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1893, and taking the London MB in 1894. After junior hospital appoint

He practised at 29 Chaulpati Lane, Bhawanipur, Calcutta, and is believed to have died about 1957, aged around 60.

Born on 12 July 1914 at Dunedin, second son of Hugh and Helena Marshall, he was educated at Otago Boys High School and won an entrance scholarship to the University and the Fowler Scholarship in the Medical School. He qualified in 1938 with a gold medal in clinical medicine. While a resident at Auck

Born on 1 May 1893, the son of an Instructor Captain in the Royal Navy and his French wife, he was born at Brest and spent his infancy in Japan, with the result that he could speak Japanese before he could speak English. Educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and the Middlesex Hospital, he qualified

Born on 12 September 1860 in Bonnet Carne, Louisiana, fifty miles north of New Orleans, he was the son of Dr N H Matas and Theresa Jorda Ponsjoan both of Spanish descent. His father, a plantation physician, amassed a considerable fortune during the disruption due to the American Civil War by trading

Minaisy took the Fellowship in 1940. He practised in Egypt throughout his career, and died there in 1964 or early 1965.

Vaman Raghunath Mirajkar was born on 13 October 1887 in Mangalore where he received his early education, proceeding to the Grant Medical College where he graduated MB BS in the University of Bombay in 1913. He then became house surgeon to Colonel Street, Professor of Surgery in Bombay, and served in

H W L Molesworth, a very human and kindly man, was known to his friends as "Moley" or "the Old Mole". He was the son of Mr Justice Molesworth, Puisne Justice of Victoria and was born in Melbourne in 1892. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and subsequently at Tonbridge School and the London

Born at Roanne, central France on 12 October 1879 the son of a lawyer; his father's father and brother being surgeons, he graduated at Lyons in 1906 and was Chef de clinique chirurgicale there till 1909. During the war of 1914-18 he worked in military hospitals in Paris and was chosen for the staff