Born at 11 London Wall on Nov. 1st, 1791, the only child of Joseph Green, a wealthy London merchant, head of the firm of Green & Ross, of Martin Lane, Cannon Street, E.C., and afterwards of London Wall, his mother being Frances, sister to Henry Cline, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital. A delicate boy

Born at Exeter on Dec. 12th, 1799, the third son of James Luke, merchant and banker, by his wife, who had been a Miss Ponsford, of Drewsteignton. He entered Blundell's School at Tiverton in 1813 and remained there until 1816, when, on the death of his father, he came to London and was articled to Jo

Born at Prestwich, Lancashire, and served his apprenticeship with John Goodman, of Salford, with his uncle, James Ogden, one of the leading medical men in Salford, and with his uncle's successor, William B Lumb. Young Fletcher took a keen interest from the first in science, especially in chemistry a

Born in Salisbury, an elder brother of George Roberts Tatum (qv), and there passed his boyhood and received his early education, after which he became a student at St George's Hospital. As there was at that time no medical school in connection with the Hospital, young Tatum, like his teacher and fri

Born April 14th, 1815, at 10 The Terrace, Upper Clapton, Middlesex, the only child of John and Mary Birkett. Educated at various private schools; at one the master was a Frenchman, at another a mathematician and astronomer, and at a third a Greek scholar. Birkett thereby gained a wide general knowle

Born in Mount Street, Lambeth, where his father and grandfather had carried on a successful practice. The house was at the junction of the Westminster Bridge Road with Kennington Lane. It had a large garden, which Forster tended as a boy, and thus gained his lifelong love for flowers and ferns. He w

Educated at Queen's College, Birmingham, where he was afterwards Hon Pathologist, Demonstrator of Anatomy, and Professor of Anatomy. He was at one time Resident Medical Officer of the Bradford Infirmary and Dispensary, but from about the year 1866 he practised in Bristol Road, and latterly at 56 New

Born at Oxford on 3 July 1877, he graduated from Lincoln College with first-class honours in physiology in 1898. He qualified in 1902 from Guy's Hospital, where he was senior science scholar, and held resident posts there and at the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, Plymouth. He took the Fello

Born in Natal in 1911 and educated at Guy's Hospital, where he won the Hilton Dissection Prize in 1933 and qualified through London University and the Conjoint Board in 1936. After serving as house surgeon and junior demonstrator of anatomy at Guy's, he was appointed University Demonstrator of Anato

Keen was born on 4 July 1894 and qualified from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School during the first world war, and served as a medical officer in East Africa. After the war he obtained the FRCS, and practised as an ENT surgeon in Leicester for over fifteen years. He then diverted his career to an

Born 12 November 1884 at Glasgow, eldest child of Godfrey Stibbe, hosiery machine builder, and Sophia Dennis, his wife. He was educated at Allan Grant's School, Glasgow, and at Wyggeston School, Leicester, before entering Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1908 he entered the

Banerji was born on 23 March 1880 at Rawalpindi where his father was Head of the American Presbyterian Mission School. He joined the Calcutta Medical School in 1897 and qualified from there in 1904. After serving many appointments in Calcutta Banerji went to England and obtained his English Fello