Born on 9 June 1887 at Ely Place, Dublin, son of Walter Doolin, an architect, he was educated first by the Marist Fathers, and later by the Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College. He matriculated in the Royal University of Ireland 1904 and had a distinguished undergraduate career at University College, D

John Robson Kirkup was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for the Bath clinical area and a noted medical historian. He was born at Sedge Flatt Farm, Ousten, near Chester-le-Street, County Durham on 17 March 1928. His father, John Philip Kirkup, was a tenant farmer supplying food to surrounding coal mi