Born at Abingdon on August 23rd, 1838, the son of Frederic Travers, of Poole, Dorset. He was not related apparently to the family of Benjamin Travers. He was privately educated, served an apprenticeship to Thomas Salter (qv), of Poole, and received his professional training at Charing Cross Hospital

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

Walter Maslen-Jones was born in Simla on 5 September 1891. His father was a Baptist Missionary and on his return to England his son was educated at Eltham College and then at the Middlesex Hospital. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1914, and soon afterwards joined the RAMC and for four year

Charles Henry de Boer was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Liverpool. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya, on 2 September 1921, where his father was chief colonial medical officer. He was sent to England for his schooling, and was cared for by his great aunt, Alice de Boer, a doctor. He g

Leonard Easton was an obstetrician and gynaecologist at the London Hospital. His background was unusual. His parents, Leonard Tytherleigh Easton, an elderly insurance broker, and Maria Bertrand Easton née de Lis met in Japan and he was born in Tientsin, China, on 11 July 1921. His education at Harro

Born in London on 29 December 1910, he was educated at the Chelsea Polytechnic and University College. He was awarded the junior and senior medals in anatomy and the silver medal in embryology and histology. At University College Hospital medical school he won the Fellowes silver medal in 1934 and t

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

Brews was the son of a general practitioner, Richard Vincent Brews, LRCSI, and his wife Edith Manifold; he was born in North Woolwich in 1902. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and became a medical student at the London Hospital in 1920. After gaining many prizes he qualified in 1924,

Harold Goodwin was born on 5 June 1910, the son of Barnet and Rebecca Goodwin. He studied medicine at University College and St Bartholomew’s. He served in the RAMC throughout the war and on demobilisation specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, being registrar, RMO and subsequently senior regist

George Jonas was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Hillingdon Hospital. He was born in Berlin in 1924, and qualified from the Middlesex Hospital in 1947. After National Service and training posts in London and Liverpool, he was appointed to Hillingdon in 1964. He played an importa

George Pinker, Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Queen from 1973 to 1990, was born in Calcutta on 6 December 1924, the son of Ronald Douglas Pinker and Queenie Elizabeth née Dix. Like so many English children in those days, he went to England at the age of four, and was educated at Reading School. He wen