Born at Malmesbury, Wiltshire on 13 July 1867 the second son of Colonel J R Luce DL, JP and Mary Visger his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1889, and graduated in medicine in 1893. He

Jim Thompson was an outstanding surgical scientist and educator, arguably without parallel in the latter half of the 20th century. His publications, almost all relating to gastrointestinal physiology, totalled nearly 1,000; he trained 131 research fellows and was the recipient of 265 visiting profes

Born 30 September 1873 at Isleworth Vicarage, the younger son of the Rev H W P Richards, prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, and his wife Jessie Margaret, daughter of the Rt Hon Peter Erie, QC, PC. He was a King's Scholar at Eton 1887-92, from whence he went up to New College, Oxford; he took first-c

Born at Blackstock, Ontario, son of Stewart and Isabella Bruce, he was educated at Perry High School and the University of Toronto where he graduated with the gold medal in the MD. He then came to England to take his FRCS, the second Canadian to do so, and after postgraduate study in Paris, Berlin a

Born in Dublin on 19 May 1870, the third child and third son of John Rigby, ordnance engineer, sometime superintendent of the Royal Small Arms factory at Enfield, and Julia, his wife, daughter of Thomas Mallinson of Huddersfield. He was educated at Bray School, Co Wicklow, at Dulwich College, and at

Robert Nicholson was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, and Blackburn and Victoria hospital, Accrington. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Born 25 January 1870, ninth and youngest child and fifth son of Frederic Turner of Nizels, Hildenborough, near Sevenoaks, Kent, a retired army clothier, and Martha Orr Faithfull, his wife, daughter of Lt-Col Richard Coventry Faithfull, HEICS. His father died when William was a very small child. He w

Born at Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 10 September 1880, the second son of Richard Gray, railway engineer, of Sao Paulo, and Ellen Tyrrell, his wife. He was admitted to St Paul's School, London as a capitation scholar in 1894, was transferred to Foundationers in September 1896, and left from Science VII in

Born on 12 December 1860, the eldest son of Edward Waldy of Barmpton, near Darlington, and Jane Chiesman, his wife. The second son, a solicitor, was more than once mayor of Darlington. John Waldy was educated at Pemberton School kept by the Rev Christopher Jackson at Middleton St George, Co Durha

Born on 26 June 1884, eldest child of Charles Edward Walker, merchant, and Mary Webster Latimer, his wife. He was at school at Fulneck, and took his medical training at the Leeds Medical School and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He served as house surgeon at Derby Royal Infirmary, and as house physician

Born 23 October 1892, the eldest son of the Rev Matthew Walker, a minister of the Church of Australia, and Anne Beattie, his wife. Walker was educated at Auckland Grammar School and the Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand, and served as a captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps during th

Born at Bristol on 26 December 1874, the fourth child and eldest son of Thomas Walters, chartered accountant, and his wife Anna Ferrier. He was educated at Burton College, of which his father's brother was headmaster, and was then apprenticed to a dentist in Park Street, Bristol. In 1895 he entered