Born on 9 November 1879, the only son of Sir Frederick Robert Upcott, KCVO, CSI, civil engineer, and his wife Jessie Turner. Sir F R Upcott had a distinguished career as a railway engineer in India. Harold Upcott was educated privately abroad, till he entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Aft

Born 15 October 1864, the son of Robert Ferguson, grocer and baker, of Ballymena, Co Antrim. He was educated at the Ballymena Intermediate School and matriculated at Queen's College, Belfast, in 1881. He graduated in the Royal University of Ireland in 1867, and then practised for a time in partnersh

Born 7 April 1866, the son of John Hayward, MRCS 1845, of Rushall, Wilts, who died on 19 November 1869, aged 45. His mother, *née* Fuller, was the daughter of the Steward of St Bartholomew's Hospital and died not long after her husband. He was educated at Marlborough College and St Bartholomew's Hos

Born in Eastern Bengal, 23 June 1878, the sixth child and second son of Frederick William Joseph Rees, of the Bengal civil service, and Alice Hawthorn Heathcote, his wife. He was educated at Haileybury and the Middlesex Hospital, where he won a prize in anatomy and in 1899 a second-year exhibition,

Born on 7 January 1879 the son of William John Harnett FRCP Ed, LRCSI, of Barnet, Hertfordshire, he was educated at the City of London School and was a scholar of St John's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1899. He entered St Thomas's Hosp