Born at Simla, India on 26 December 1854, the second child and only son of Francis Perry and Cecilia Dalton, his wife. He was educated at Mill Hill School and entered University College Hospital in October 1872, where he won the Atkinson-Morley scholarship in 1877 and the Fellowes medal. Here he ser

Born at Carbondale, Illinois, on 15 July 1882, son of John T Phemister and his wife Elizabeth Fox. He was educated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, where he graduated in 1904, and made postgraduate studies in Europe, including a period in Professor Starling's physiological laboratory at University

Born at Damascus in Syria on 10 March 1878, eldest of the seven sons and one daughter of the Rev John Gillis Phillips, of the Irish Presbyterian Mission, and Annie McCann, his wife. He was educated at the Royal Academical Institute, Belfast, Trent College, Nottingham, and Queen's College, Belfast, a

Born at Heavitree, Exeter, South Devon on 10 September 1854, the eldest child and only son of Charles Burn Pickering, clerk in the Commercial Union Assurance office at Exeter, and his wife Louisa Cooke of Bideford, North Devon. He was educated at Parker Wells, Exeter, and afterwards went to Guy's Ho

Born at Clifton, Bristol on 5 July 1859, the eldest son and second child of Richard Walter Pigeon, solicitor, and Henrietta Mary Kemball, his wife. He was educated at Clifton College when Dr Percival was headmaster. On 18 April 1877 he was admitted a pensioner at Christ's College, Cambridge, obtaine

Born at Waterbury, Connecticut in 1853, and educated at Harvard University Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He practised at 802 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Maryland and was superintendent of the Robert Garrett Hospital for Children. He was a member of the Southern Surgical Association. He

Educated at the School of Pharmacy of the Pharmaceutical Society, where he gained the junior Bell scholarship in 1872, and the senior Bell scholarship in 1873. He also gained medals in material medica and botany, in chemistry, practical chemistry, and pharmacy, and the Pereira medal in 1873. He subs

Born at Vanburgh Fields, Blackheath, 17 September 1855, the third son and fifth child of Richard Henry Poland, fur merchant, and Harriet Allen, his wife. He was a nephew of Alfred Poland, surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and grandson of Sir W H Poland, sheriff of London, who was knighted on the occasion o

Born at Rastrick near Halifax on 11 November 1855, the youngest son of Tempest Pollard, MRCS (d 1866) and Sarah Pollard, his wife. His elder brother, Arthur Tempest Pollard, was the first headmaster of the City of Oxford School 1881-87, and was headmaster of the City of London School 1890-1905. Bilt

Born 8 July 1864 at St Mabyn, Cornwall, the fifth child and third son of the eight children of Charles Pollard, a farmer, and Mary Hawken, his wife. He went to school at Crewkerne and received his medical education at Guy's Hospital. He acted as clinical assistant at the Chelsea Hospital for Women a

He was educated at King's College Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, house physician, and clinical assistant. After holding other resident posts and a period as second assistant at the Central London Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital, he was surgical registrar at Willesden General Hospital. Po

Born at Newport, Fife on 26 October 1869, eldest of the four sons and a daughter of John Prain of Dundee and Sara Elizabeth Leay, his wife. His father was afterwards agent of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co at Panama and at Valparaiso, Chile. Prain was educated at Cheltenham College, 1882-88, and at