Born at Ashford on 20 August 1879, eldest son of H J Goulden, a publisher and bookseller of Canterbury, and his wife Isabel Wind, he was educated at St Edmund's College, Ware, and at Downing College, Cambridge where his interests, which had been limited to music, broadened. Graduating in 1900, he co

Lewis Philip Jameson Evans was born at Edgbaston, Birmingham on 2 June 1907, the son of John Jameson Evans, FRCS, a distinguished ophthalmic surgeon and lecturer in ophthalmology in Birmingham University; his mother was a daughter of the Rev Thomas Charles Edwards DD, first Principal of the Universi

Roy Harfitt was born in Alexandria, Egypt on 15 March 1944. He had no medical connections. His grandfather, Vicar of St Mary at Hill (the Billingsgate fish market church) founded the Christian Evidence Society. Ronald Stanley Harfitt, his father, worked in civil aviation and his mother was Josephine

The Hon Geoffrey John Orlando Bridgeman, the second son of the first Viscount Bridgeman, was born on 3 July 1898 at 39 Harley Street, London. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College Cambridge, and served in the Royal Field Artillery during the first world war, and was awarded the MC in 1918. He

Jean Margeurite Dollar was born in London in 1901. Her father, grandfather and uncle were veterinary surgeons practising in Bond Street. After school in London she attended the London School of Medicine for Women, from which she graduated MB BS in 1927. She early devoted herself to ophthalmology and

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

George Maxted was born in 1886 and educated at Guy's Hospital where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma, and graduated with the London University MB BS in 1910. He then became a house physician at Guy's, and held a house surgeon appointment at the Wolverhampton General Hospital. After a resident

Melville John Corrigan was born in Tiverton, Devon, on 17 September 1934 the son of H J Corrigan, an electrical engineer. He was educated at Tiverton Grammar School and at Blundell's School. He studied at Queen's College, Cambridge from 1952 to 1955 and was a keen athlete, playing rugby for his coll

Gerard Giles Penman was educated at Sherborne School, Pembroke College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital, London. During the first world war he served in the Royal Field Artillery, 1917-19. After qualifying in medicine and passing through training appointments in ophthalmology, he was soon appoin

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

Edwin Cook received his medical education at Liverpool University, graduating in 1940, early in the second world war. After holding resident posts at Liverpool he soon joined the RAFVR. One of his early postings was to 266 Rhodesia Squadron RAF, and his association with this squadron was to remain o

Arthur Lister was born in Aberdeen on 12 February 1905. His father was a physician and Lord Lister was his great-uncle. He was educated at Lancing and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1927. He began his clinical studies that year, entering the London Hospital with a Price Univers