Born 7 October 1869 at Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand, the fourth child and second son of Samuel Stewart Griffin and Catherine Finegan, his wife. His father, born in Canada, was medical man, clergyman, politician, and pioneer settler. He was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, where h

Born 20 October 1882 at Stamford Hill, London, eldest son of Arthur Griffith, solicitor, who survived his son, and his wife, *née* Donald. The family had a distinguished legal tradition. He was educated at Tollington Park College, at King's College, Strand, where he was a junior scholar, and at King

Born at 47 Ladbroke Square, Notting Hill, London, on 10 March 1853, the third son and third child of Charles Maynard Frost, FRCS and his wife, wife *née* Adams. He was educated at Kensington Grammar School and entered St George's Hospital in 1872. Here he was a successful student and was prizeman

Born in Vienna on 14 June 1851 the son of Adalbert Fuchs, professor of agriculture at the Technische Hochschule, Vienna. He was educated at Vienna under Billroth and Brücke, and was afterwards assistant in the Physiological Institute at Innsbruck. He was assistant to Arlt in the Ophthalmological Cli

Born 6 April 1863 at Spilsby, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of the Rev Charles George Ridley, who came from Kimbolton, and Mary Vine, his wife. He was educated at Boston Grammar School and at St Mary's Hospital, where he gained scholarships in natural science and pathology. He acted subsequently as h

John Henry Walsh, better known by his pen name 'Stonehenge', was born at Hackney, London, on October 21st, 1810, the son of Benjamin Walsh. He was educated privately, and after qualifying became Surgeon to the Ophthalmic Institution. He lectured for a time on surgery and descriptive anatomy at the A

Born in the island of Barbados on March 3rd, 1816, the eleventh son of John Walton, Provost Marshal. He was the last born of twenty-three children. He himself became six feet in height, yet was the shortest of his brothers, for his father's ancestors - Yorkshiremen - were of gigantic stature; his mo

Born at Sydney, New South Wales, on 25 January 1864, the fourth child of Samuel Terry Hughes and Charlotte Keck, his wife. He entered Malvern College in the third term of 1880, when the Rev Thomas Cruttwell was head master, and remained there until 1882. He then proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospita

Jonathan Hutchinson, like his distinguished father Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, was surgeon to the London Hospital. When he was born at Reigate in 1859 it was still possible for a surgeon to be encyclopaedic. Few advances had been made: Lister was still a physiologist; anaesthesia was on its trial; the

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 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 in London about 1875, the son of George Loosely, he was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, took second-class honours in physiology, and had his clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as ophthalmic house surgeon. He was a clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital and