Edwin Holmes was born in Yorkshire, the son of the owner of a small building firm. He went to the local school and in 1914 joined the army as a private soldier and when fighting in the trenches in France was wounded and sent back to England. Subsequently he was given a grant and entered the medical

Born on 14 August 1882 son of A Green-Armytage of Clifton and York, he was educated at Clifton College, at Bristol University and the Royal Infirmary, and in Paris. He was Montefiore surgical medallist at the RAMC College, was commissioned Lieutenant IMS in 1907, promoted Captain in 1910, Major in 1

Samuel Barnett was born in Australia in 1900 and received his medical education at Melbourne University, qualifying in 1922, and gaining his MD in 1924. After resident appointments in Australia he came to London and gained his Fellowship in 1926. His chief interest was in gynaecology and he was s

Born on 22 November 1903, son of Professor William Nixon, Professor of Mathematics at Malta University, he was educated at Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital where he was Epsom Scholar in 1922. Qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1927, he was appointed house surgeon at St Mary's and, later, in

Herbert Kenneth Pacey was born in Auckland on 6 August 1905 and was educated at Auckland Grammar School, Palmerston North Boys' High School, and Otago University where he distinguished himself as a rugby footballer, playing for the University of Otago, and in 1927 for the New Zealand Universities. A

Practised as a surgeon at 72 Guilford Street, London, WC, where he was Surgeon to the German Hospital and at one time President of the Hunterian Society. He has a place among the early operators upon ovarian cysts in this country, as described by him in the *London Medical Gazette* (1842-3, xxxi,

Born 19 July 1891, the third and youngest son of Peter Dobson Hayes of Stockport. He was educated at Manchester before entering the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. His student days were broken by the outbreak of war and he served in the Royal Field Artillery from 10 September 1914 till 12 August

David Morris was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in London. David and his younger brother Gareth were the sons of the headmaster of a school in Briton Ferry, a small mining town in south Wales. David won a scholarship to Neath Grammar School but, with a family move during the Second Worl

Born on 8 January at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, he served as an infantryman, chiefly in Mesopotamia, in the first world war, before studying medicine at the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1924 and became house surgeon. Becoming interested in obstetrics and gynaecology he was appointed sen

Professor James Lawrence (Laurie) Wright passed away in Dunedin on 8 September 2011 at the age of 96. Whether delivering babies, guiding nervous rural GPs, or serving as an army doctor in World War 2, Prof Laurie Wright was guided by a sense of duty. Professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at

Katharine Isabel Liebert was born in 1912 and was educated at the Manchester High School for Girls and Manchester University, where she obtained the degree of BSc in anatomy and physiology in 1934, and graduated MB ChB in 1937. She then held house appointments at the Royal Infirmary Manchester, St M

Maurice Lawrence Treston was born on 9 February 1891, and received his early education in the United States. He came to the London Hospital for the medical course and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1913. After junior hospital posts at the London Hospital and at Colchester he passed into the