Born on 21 May 1873 second child and only son of Thomas Headland Gordon-Wilson and his wife née Kelly, he was educated at Highgate School, and won an entrance scholarship in science to the London Hospital. At his qualification he took honours in forensic medicine in 1897. He served as senior house s

John Bishop Harman came from an extraordinary family of doctors, writers and politicians. His mother, Katherine Chamberlain, was the niece of Joseph Chamberlain, and married a distinguished ophthalmological surgeon, Nathaniel Bishop Harman. She herself qualified as a doctor at a time when there were

Ivan Stuart Wilson was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1883. After qualifying in medicine from the University of Otago he came to England for postgraduate experience. He was demonstrator of anatomy at the London Hospital under Professor William Wright and then worked at the Chelsea Hospital for Wom

Frederick Grant Banting, the discoverer of insulin, was born at Alliston, Ontario on 4 November 1891, fifth child and fourth son of William Thompson Banting, farmer, of Irish extraction, and Margaret Grant, his wife, of Scotch extraction. He was educated at Alliston High School and Toronto Universit

Born 4 April 1852 at Eaton Socon, Huntingdonshire, the second son and third child of William Hobson, merchant, and Susan Ann Squire his wife. He was educated at Bedford School, where he was first prizeman, and at University College Hospital, where he won the gold medals for physiology, comparative a

He received his medical education at Queen's College, Birmingham, where he gained medals in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, midwifery, and materia medica, as well as the Radcliffe and Webster prizes. He then proceeded to University College, London, and won the Fellowes gold medal. At the University

He was born on 1 January 1903 son of Harry Evans, conductor of the celebrated choir at Dowlais and Merthyr Tydfil. His grandfather was a pharmacist at Dowlais and inspired him to take up the study of medicine. His parents moved to Liverpool and he was educated at Liverpool College, City of London Sc

The eldest son of George Turner, MRCS, who practised at 9 Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, W, he was born at Chigwell, Essex, in September 1854. His younger brother was Sir G R Turner, KBE, FRCS, surgeon to St George's Hospital; two uncles also were Members of the College (see under G R Turner). E B Turne

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and in Paris. He practised first in London at 8 Hinde Street, then in the United States, where he was Physician to the Columbia General Hospital and to the British and the American Legations. He returned to Cromwell Road, and acted as Physician to the City Dispen

Educated at Guy's Hospital and at Northampton. He practised at Northampton, and at the time of his death was Senior Physician of the Northampton General Infirmary, and Hon Consulting Physician of the Northampton Royal Dispensary. He died at Billing Road, Northampton, on July 21st, 1879. Publication

Educated at St George's Hospital. At the time of his death he was Physician to the Denbighshire General Dispensary and Asylum for Recovery of Health, and had been in 1861 Consulting Physician and Hon Governor of the Chester General Infirmary. He was also JP for the City of Chester and County of Denb

Born in Spitalfields on July 5th, 1830, the only son of the Rev William Stone, Rector of Christchurch, Spitalfields, and later Canon of Canterbury. Canon Stone was a man of commanding presence, great learning, and wide culture, and earnestly desired that his son should become a scholar and an orname