Frederick Gordon Kergin was born at Port Simpson, BC, January 11 1907, the son of W T Kergin, MB. After preliminary schooling at Prince Rupert he attended the University of Toronto, earning his BA in biological and medical sciences in 1927 and the MD in 1930, both with honours. He won the George Arm

Harold William Burge was born on 23 July 1909. He originally entered King's College, London, as an engineering student and shortly transferred to the faculty of medicine to graduate from King's College Hospital in 1933. After a few years in general practice he decided on a career in surgery and took

Douglas Green belonged to a well-known Ecclesfield family. Educated at Barnsley grammar school, he obtained an open scholarship and a major open county scholarship from the West Riding of Yorkshire to Sheffield University medical school. Green excelled both at work and games: he was a keen Associati

Ronald George Gibson, the only child of George Edward Gibson, a pharmacist, and of Gladys Muriel (née Prince), was born at Southampton on 28 November 1909. He was educated at Osborne House School, Romsey, and Mill Hill School before graduating from St John's College, Cambridge. He then went to St Ba

Peter Broadhead Lacy was born in New Malden, Surrey, on 11 November 1923, the son of Ernest Lacy, a pharmacist, and his wife Alice Mildred, née Broadhead. He was educated at Ewell Castle School and Surbiton County School before being awarded a scholarship to Manchester University to read medicine. H

Charles Bellemore was born in June 1920, the third of eight sons of Charles and Mary Bellemore, and grew up in Ashfield, Australia. He was educated at the Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham, and received his medical training at the University of Sydney. He started general practice in Chester

Born in Dublin on 2 April 1858 the son of Arthur Hill Griffith solicitor, and his wife Hannah Rose Cottingham. The family emigrated to Australia in 1872, and he was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne from his fourteenth to eighteenth year. He took his medical training in England, qualifying at th

Practised at Burton Crescent, then at 26 Euston Place, Euston Square, London, where he died on July 25th, 1856. He was in general practice.

Educated at the Aldersgate School of Medicine, where he was at one time Demonstrator of Anatomy. He was afterwards a successful general practitioner in Claremont Square, then in Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell, and was a good operator. The son of an Army officer, he inherited a taste for military life

Born in London on 8 November 1865, the fourth child and only son of Henry Hugh Armstead, RA (1828-1905), sculptor, for whom see *DNB*, and Sarah his wife, daughter of Henry Tanworth Wells and sister of Henry Tanworth Wells, RA (1828-1903), portrait-painter, for whom see *DNB*. The father's best-know

Ernest Lewis graduated at the University of Witwatersrand in 1953 and served his residencies in the Johannesburg Teaching Group of Hospitals. He subsequently worked at the Doctors' Hospital in New York, the Birmingham Accident Hospital and the University of Bristol. Obtaining his FRCS he returned to

Received his professional training at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, and the Middlesex Hospital. He was at first in general practice at Leigh, Lancashire, and then for many years at Bowdon, Cheshire. He died in 1884 or 1885.