Born at Springfield House, Hall Lane, Bradford on 28 February 1893, the eldest child of Samuel Lodge, OBE, MD, who survived him, dying on 19 March 1934, and Winifred Durham Garbutt his wife. His father and grandfather had practised in Bradford and his mother was the daughter of a medical man. Sam

Born 7 February 1861, the eldest son of the Hon William Napier of MacMac, Lydenburg, South Africa, and his wife Louisa Mary, youngest daughter of John Horatio Lloyd, QC. His grandfather was William, 9th Lord Napier and Ettrick. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he served as

Born at Warkworth, Northumberland on 24 August 1854, the third son of the Rev J Woodham Dunn, Vicar of Warkworth, and Sarah Emily, second daughter of the Rev Luke Yarker of Leyburn Hall, Yorkshire. He received his education at Richmond Grammar School in Yorkshire, at the Clapham Grammar School, at S

Born at Exeter 28 December 1852, the fourth child and third son of Isaac Lang, corn and seed merchant, and Sarah Lindon Parnell, his wife. He was educated at the Moravian School, Lausanne, and entered the London Hospital on 1 October 1870. Here he was house surgeon, house physician, and demonstrator

Born in Montreal on 6 August 1858, the second child and elder son of Frederick Lawford, architect, and Anne Shaw Low, his wife. He was educated at a private school before entering McGill University, where he graduated MD in 1879. He came to London immediately and entered the medical school at St Tho

Born in Victoria on 27 February 1862, eldest of the nine children of James Barrett, MD, formerly of Banbury, Oxfordshire. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and University, where he graduated MB in 1881. After serving as resident medical officer at Melbourne Hospital, he came to Europe and

Born at High Close, Earlsheaton, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, 8 December 1882, the sixth child and third son of Arthur Lee, blanket manufacturer, and Phoebe Ridgeway his wife. He was educated at Batley Grammar School and at Tettenhall College, before he matriculated from St John's College, Cambridge. He rec

Born 9 July 1859 at Forest Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, son of the Rev James Samuel Blair, vicar of Killingworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and his wife, *née* Buxton. He was educated at Durham School and having won a university scholarship in 1878 entered the University of Durham College of Medicine, Newc

Born on 7 March 1871 at Scythlin, Pencader, Carmarthenshire, third child and only son of Benjamin Evans, yeoman farmer, and his wife, *née* Phillips. He was educated at St David's College School, Lampeter, at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Carmarthen, and at Edinburgh University, where he graduat

Born at Kobe, Japan on 25 September 1875, the elder son of John Kirkaldy Cunningham, a merchant, and Florence Heaslop, his wife. His father retired from business and settled at Axminster in 1887, and sent his son to Sherborne School. He entered at Michaelmas term 1889 and left in 1894, having been c

Cecil William Thornhill was a senior consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary. He qualified in 1945 with the LRCPI and LRCSI, the licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, together with the licentiates in midwifery from b

Born at Cheltenham, the son of Walter Jessop. His father, who was in partnership with William Dalton, had been House Surgeon at the Charing Cross and Westminster Ophthalmic Hospitals. At the time of his son's birth he was Surgeon to the General Hospital and Dispensary, to the Ophthalmic Dispensary,