Born at Wandsworth, London, on 7 February 1859, the second son and second child of John Charles Buckmaster, JP and Emily Ann Goodliffe, his wife. His father, who was in the Science and Art department at South Kensington, was one of the pioneers as a departmental lecturer. The family achieved a disti

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad on 16 September 1901, Emmanuel Ciprian Amoroso was the third oldest of twelve children. He came from an exemplary Roman Catholic family. His father, Thomas Amoroso, had been a book-keeper on an estate in Trinidad and later owned estates of his own, until a slump in th

Robert Victor Coxon was born 14 November 1914 and educated at St Dunstan's College, Catford. He entered Guy's Hospital as a War Memorial Scholar in arts, qualified in 1938, and after house appointments at Guy's took both the FRCS and the MRCP in 1940. After two years as a medical registrar he joined

Born 11 November 1864 at Chili, Coshocton County, Ohio, US son of Michael Crile and Margaret Dietz, his wife. He was educated at Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, and Wooster (now the Western Reserve) University, Cleveland, Ohio, where he took his M.D. in 1887 and served as an intern at the Lak

Born in 1870 at Kildorrery, Co Cork, son of Thomas Barry, he was educated at Queen's College, Cork, a constituent of the old Royal University of Ireland. In 1900 he went into general practice in Cheshire and continued his researches in physiology at the University of Liverpool. He then went to Germa

Born in Granard, Co Longford, and was educated at the Dundalk Institution, whence he passed on to Galway College in 1879, where he carried off all the available scholarships in mathematics and medicine, finally graduating with the highest honours and a 1st class exhibition in the Royal University of

Lester Reynold Dragstedt was born in Anaconda, Montana, of Swedish parents on 2 October 1893 and after his early schooling in that town he entered his medical training at the University of Chicago where he qualified in 1916. His main interest was in physiology, a subject in which he was appointed As

Spurrell was born in Carmarthen on 24 June 1897, educated at Llandovery College and entered Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1914 at the age of 17. As soon as he was old enough he enlisted in 1915 in the Royal Field Artillery, was commissioned and went on active service till the first world war ende

Born at Islington on 27 November 1857 eldest of the three sons of Dr James Norton Sherrington of Yarmouth who died young; his widow married Caleb Rose FRCS of Ipswich, and Charles was educated at Ipswich Grammar School, Edinburgh University and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a pupil of Micha

David Slome was born in the village of Maitland, near Cape Town, on 24 November 1906, the second eldest of the nine children of East European immigrants. His father had interests in the hotel trade and the canning industry, and this entailed frequent moves, so that David changed school several times

Arthur Koch was born in Colombo on 20 November 1903 into a family distinguished for public service in Ceylon. He was educated at the Royal College, Colombo, and in 1922 entered the Ceylon Medical College where he had an outstanding undergraduate career, winning 5 medals in the course of study for th

Born in London on 5 November 1864, second son of the Rev Stanley Leathes DD, he was educated at Winchester, New College and Guy's Hospital. Very soon after obtaining his FRCS he forsook a surgical career and devoted himself to the study of physiology and biochemistry. Between 1895 and 1897 he wor