Born on 1 August 1875, the fourth and youngest son of Henry and Elizabeth Gask, he was educated at Dulwich College. He studied at Lausanne, Freiburg, and Baden before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1893. He qualified in 1898, and was appointed house surgeon to John Langton. He

Born 24 April 1875 the fourth child and third son of Alfred Charles Mayo, MRCS 1870, of Mildenhall, Suffolk, and afterwards of Great Yarmouth, and Eleanor Matthews his wife. He was educated at Epsom College, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a senior scholar in 1893 and took first-class

Born at Cheadle, Cheshire on 18 January 1867 the second child and eldest son of Alfred Godson, MB, CM, and Laura Frances Mary Radcliffe, his wife. His father, Alfred Godson, who graduated at Cambridge as a senior optime, became demonstrator of anatomy at the Manchester Royal School of Medicine. Alfr

Charles Gordon Watson, he assumed the surname of Gordon-Watson by deed poll in 1920, was born 18 April 1874, the eighth child and fifth son of the Rev Henry George Watson, MA Oxford, Vicar of St Leonard's, Buckinghamshire, and his wife, *neé* Gillman. Gordon Watson joined the Roman Catholic church e

The seventh son and youngest (eleventh) child of John Henry Hewer, MRCS (see the preceding memoir of C M Hewer), he was born on 7 October 1875. He was educated at University College School and from there proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was secretary and vice-president of the Abernet

Born on 14 July 1871 at Deptford, Kent, second son of Edwin Unwin, master printer, and Elizabeth Spicer, his wife. His younger brother Stanley became chairman of George Allen and Unwin Ltd, publishers, was president of the Publishers' Association 1933-35, and was knighted. William Unwin was educated

Born at Carmarthen in 1871, he was educated there and at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was Llewellyn scholar. He qualified in 1898, served as house physician and house surgeon at Charing Cross, and was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school. After postgraduate study in Vienna he

Born at Chester on 8 May 1873, the second child and eldest son of Edward George Sargent, a bank manager, and Emily Grose, his wife. His brothers were Dr Eric Sargent, the Rev D H G. Sargent (who died 19 July 1935), and the Rev E H Gladstone Sargent, and he had four sisters. He was educated at Clifto

Born on 19 August 1874 the son of William Roderick of Llanelly and nephew of a general practitioner in that town, he was educated at Bath College, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St George's Hospital, where he was house physician and house surgeon and later surgical registrar. In 1900 he went back t

Francis Theodore Talbot was born in 1872 and educated at Cambridge University and Leeds, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1898 and graduating MB BCh in 1900. He was house surgeon and house physician at Leeds General Infirmary, and then went to Stockton-on-Tees and became a partner in a genera

Born in 1866, he was educated at Aberdeen University, the Middlesex and King's College Hospitals. He was a house surgeon at the Gloucestershire General Infirmary and Eye Hospital and then ophthalmic clinical assistant at the Middlesex Hospital. He settled in practice at Lewes, Sussex and was appo

The second son of Alfred Denyer, a merchant in the City of London, born in London 26 February 1869, his mother's maiden name being Sarah Mary Ann North. He matriculated from Queens' College, Cambridge and graduated BA after gaining second-class honours in Part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 189