Alfred John Craig was born at Porta Maggiore, Vittoriosa, Malta, on 29 May 1909. He was the fourth child and fourth son of John Craig, Chief Clerk of HM Dockyard, Malta and Sophie née Gatt. He started his education at HM Dockyard School, Malta, one of the best at the time. In due course he was admit

With the recent death of Peter Low, Nelson and New Zealand lost an important connection with an era of health care that was by today’s standards lightly administered, remarkably efficient and well-regarded by both staff and community. Trained as a general surgeon, Peter subsequently specialised in o

Born 10 September 1861 at Pensarn, Llandyssul, Cardigan, the eldest child of Evan Thomas, farmer, and Mary Lewis, his wife. He was educated at a small private school at Llandyssul under the headmastership of Gwilym Marlais, and afterwards entered the London Hospital Medical School. He won the Hutchi

Born 9 April 1872 at Hadley, Kerry district, Montgomeryshire, the second child and eldest son of William H Pugh, a civil servant, and Annie Grant, his wife. He was educated at Ardwyn School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He entered the Middlesex Hospital as a scholar in 1889, won

Born at Ealing on 26 July 1854, the fourth and youngest son of William John Little, MD, FRCP, and Eliza, his wife, daughter of Thomas Roff Tamplin, of Lewes, Sussex. Dr Little (1810-1894) his father, early became interested in orthopaedics because he had a shortened tendo Achillis, which was divided

Harold Jackson Burrows was born at Harrow, Middlesex, on 9 May 1902. His father was Harold Burrows FRCS and his grandfather was a graduate of St Bartholomew's Hospital, who became a Surgeon-Major in the Bombay Army. He was educated at Edinburgh House, Lee-on-Solent and Cheltenham College, where he w

The following obituary was published in Volume 7 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Harold Albert Oatley received his medical education at University College Hospital, qualifying MB BS in 1936. After junior posts at University College Hospital and in the Anatomy Department at Cambridge, he worked s

Born 8 October 1881 the third son of the Rev Robert Baker Girdlestone (1836-1923), Canon of Christ Church, and only child of his second wife, Mary Wood. Canon Girdlestone was a distinguished Biblical scholar, and in 1881 was Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford; later he lived at Wimbledon. Girdleston

Born 28 April 1878 at Croxall Lodge, Bromham Road, Bedford, the son of James Aberdour Elmslie and Cecilia Cheyne, his wife. His father, a master marine and lieutenant RNR, was captain of the *La Hogue* and the *Sobraon*, noted clippers on the Australian run. His mother came of distinguished medical

Alan McKenzie was born on 11 April 1929 in the Manse of the Presbyterian Church at Port Chalmers, Dunedin to Jessie (Harrington) and James McKenzie. He was the youngest of three children with a brother, Malcolm and sister, Marion. When Alan was three years old his parents accepted a call to the Epso

Herbert John Seddon was born on 13 July 1903 in Derby, the elder son of John Seddon, who worked in the Union Cold Storage Company, and of Ellen (née Thornton). He spent his childhood in Manchester and was educated at the William Hulme Grammar School from whence he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital M

Aime Robert Merle d'Aubigné was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 23 July 1900, the son of Charles Merle d'Aubigné, a Protestant pastor of Huguenot descent. His paternal grandfather was a professor of theology at Geneva and an authority on the history of the Reformation. He had a strict religious educati