Born at South Norwood, 25 March 1860, seventh child and fifth son of the Rev Charles Maddock Arnold, minor canon of Westminster and vicar of St Mark's, South Norwood. His mother was Jane, daughter of John Haywood, MD, of Chippenham, Wilts. Like two of his brothers he went to Westminster School, whic

Born on 19 August 1860 the second son of William Roxburgh MD Edinburgh, FRCP London, who practised at Bedford, and his wife Annie Elizabeth Boswell, he was educated at Bedford School and Exeter College, Oxford, where he took fourth-class honours in the final school of physiology in 1882. He qualifie

Educated at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was obstetric house physician, and in Brussels, he was a clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and specialised as an ophthalmologist. He practised at Trealaw, Rhondda, Glamorgan, South Wales and was ophthalmic surgeon to the Urban Dis

Born at Magdalena, Argentina on 15 September 1865, the fourth child and third son of Henry Thompson, an estanciero (manager of a country estate), and Margaret Cowen, his wife. He was educated privately at Liverpool and in Paris, and took his medical training at Edinburgh University, where he graduat

Born at Brighton on 5 July 1874, he was educated privately, then at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Qualifying in 1898 he became house surgeon at Wolverhampton General Hospital and the Royal County Hospital, Winchester, and ophthalmic house surgeon to B J Vernon and W H

John Arkle was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 28 July 1890 and was educated at St George's Private School at Gosforth. Subsequently he went to Edinburgh with a view to becoming an actuary, but after 12 months left Edinburgh to study medicine at Durham University. Arkle was a brilliant student and

Born on 1 June 1862 at Kensington, second child and eldest son of Beevor Roll, chartered accountant, and Ellen Winfield, his wife. He was educated at Bedford Grammar School, at Christ's College, Cambridge, and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as ophthalmic house surgeon. He was later chief c

Roderick Paton was born on 14 September 1908 in Streatham where his father was a general practitioner, and was educated at Streatham College, Dulwich College and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, and qualified in 1931. Nine years later, after various hospital appointments, he obtained his Fell

Born in London on 8 December 1871 the son of M G Ormond, he was educated at Guy's Hospital, where he was appointed house-surgeon and then obstetric assistant in charge of externs. After travelling as a ship's surgeon to South Africa in 1898, he specialised in ophthalmology and was appointed ophthalm

Andrew Rugg-Gunn was born on 26 November 1884 at Altandhu, Ross and Cromarty, in north-west Scotland, the eldest of the five children of John Douglas Gunn, a school-master, and Mary Maclean his wife. He was educated and graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1907. He then went int

Rodney Brian De Saram received his medical education at University College Hospital and qualified MRCS LRCP in 1955. He obtained the MB BS in 1956; the DO Eng 1962, and the FRCS in 1966. He held resident posts at University College Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He was appointed consu

Harold Levy was born in Montreal, Canada, on December 11, 1875. He was educated at the Catholic Academy, Montreal, where he was gold medalist in 1891 and was trained at McGill University where he was also a gold medalist and graduated BA in 1895 and MD, CM in 1899. In 1900 he took the PhD of Rostock