Born in London 2 March 1846, the second son of Jean Joubert, a French artist naturalized in 1855, and Amelia Frances Bennet, his wife. She was English by descent and belonged to a collateral branch of the Tankerville Bennets. He was educated partly at Versailles and partly at King's College, London,

Son of the Honourable Marcus Annesley, born in County Down, Ireland, about 1774, and educated at Trinity College and the College of Surgeons in Dublin, also at the Windmill Street School in London. On April 29th, 1799, he received a nomination in the medical service of the HEIC on the Madras side fr

Charles Illingworth, the son of a Halifax businessman, had a life spanning four periods: the first before and during the first world war as schoolboy, sea-scout, munitions worker, farmer's boy, student, airman and prisoner of war; the second his surgical training with Sir David Wilkie in Edinburgh,

Came of a family of Lutheran Pastors, of long standing in East Prussia and Livonia, his father being Pastor of Rujen in Livonia; but his mother, having to take refuge from an epidemic, he was born at Riga, then the capital of the Russian Baltic Provinces, in December, 1836. On leaving school he fai

Born in a log cabin at Almond, Portage County, 125 miles from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, on 21 August 1853, the son of the Rev S C Wellcome and Mary Curtis, his wife; his father was a missionary working amongst the Indian tribes. The son attended the schools on the frontier, including one which was

Born at Natchez, Mississippi, on 20 June 1863 during the Civil War, the second son of the Rev Ebenezer Dickey Finney, pastor of the Greenwood Presbyterian Church, and Annie Louise Parker, his wife, who died when her child was five months old. The Finneys were of Ulster stock settled in Pennsylvania

Born in Shrewsbury on May 18th, 1856, the son of Major James Boyd, 86th Regiment, and Emma, daughter of Henry Newton, a burgess of Shrewsbury. He spent his boyhood with his parents at St Heliers, Jersey, where he was educated in a private school. “I can go back to the charm of his Jersey home at St

Born at Coonoor in the Nilgiri hills, India on 20 June 1872 the third and only son of Edward Kennaway Groves, civil engineer, and Isabella, his wife, daughter of the Rev W Reeve of the London Missionary Society, and was brought home to Bristol at the age of three. He was educated at Redland Hill Hou

Born in London on 29 May 1872, fourth son of the Very Rev the Hon William Henry Fremantle, Dean of Ripon, and Isabella, his wife, daughter of Sir Culling Eardley, 3rd Baronet, the religious philanthropist (for whom see *DNB*). The Dean was the second son of Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Lord Cottesl

Ernest Edward Dunlop, widely known as 'Weary', was a quite exceptional man whose stamina, sheer tenacity and bravery whilst a prisoner of war in the Far East gave him a unique position in Australia and in the College. He must be one of the few surgeons whose likeness was printed on an Australian sta

Howard Walter Florey was born on 24 September 1898 at Adelaide. He was educated at St Peter's Collegiate School and at Adelaide University where he graduated in medicine in 1921. He then came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and worked under Sherrington, obtaining a First in the Honour School of Physio

Born on April 7th, 1847, the third son of William Buy Owen, then practising at Finchingfield, Essex, but originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his father, Daniel Owen, had settled towards the end of the eighteenth century. Edmund Blackett Owen's mother had been a Miss Mary Blackett, and he was