Born 2 May 1868 at Bradford, Yorks, the eldest son of Henry James Cooke, a wool merchant of Summerfield, Ilkley. He was educated at Giggleswick School and matriculated from New College, Oxford, graduating with second-class honours in chemistry in the final school of natural science. He then acted fo

Educated at St Mary's Hospital, where he served as surgical registrar, he was a surgical clinical assistant at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. During the South African war he served in the Imperial Yeomanry base hospital at Deelfontein in 1900. He was subsequently consulting surgeon

Born 28 December 1870 at Cwmmarch, Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, the eldest son of Griffith Thomas, FRCVS, and Jane Jenkins, his wife. He was educated at Cilian Park School near Aberayron, Cardiganshire, at the Newquay Grammar School, Cardiganshire, and at University College, Aberystwyth. He entered th

Born in London on 10 April 1874 the fifth child and second son of John Theodore Rodocanachi, merchant, and Fanny Mavrogordato, his wife. He was educated at University College School, University College, and University College Hospital. He won an exhibition and the gold medal in organic chemistry at

Born 11 October 1870 at Islington, the ninth child and third son of George Home, tutor, and Helen Olivia Lucette his wife. He was educated at the City of London School and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, where he won the Bristowe medal in pathology and became assistant in the pathological labor

Born at Kuruman, South Africa in 1871, son of the Rev J S Moffat and great-grandson of Robert Moffat the pioneer missionary and father-in-law of David Livingstone, who set up his mission at Kuruman in 1824, he was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and the University of Cape Town, and took

Born at Barrowford, Lancashire on 14 February 1869 Every-Clayton studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, graduated MB BS with first-class honours in 1895 and took the MD and FRCS in 1896. After appointments as house physician and obstetric medical officer at Guy's and clinical assistant at the London

Born 8 August 1868 at Partney, Lincolnshire the eighth child and fourth son of the Rev Robert Giles and his wife, *née* Laurent. He was educated at Christ's Hospital (the Bluecoat School), entering the junior school at Hertford and being afterwards moved to the senior school in London, when the Rev

Born 8 November 1867 at 15 Sheffield Gardens, Kensington, the eldest surviving son of Alfred Pizzey Newton and Jessie Wylie, his wife. His father (1830-83) was a well-known landscape painter, of whom there is an account with a portrait in *The Illustrated London News*, 27 October 1883, p. 405. The a

Born 7 October 1871 at Brightley, Umberleigh, North Devon, the second son of John Mortimer, yeoman, and his wife Mary Graddon. He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and at the London Hospital, where he was first Buxton scholar in 1890. He took the Conjoint qualification in 1895, and procee

Born 12 January 1872 at Bitterne, Southampton, the seventh child and fourth son of James Dick Steward, a commander in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, and Mary L Harris, his wife. He was educated at Bedford until he entered the medical school at Guy's Hospital in October

Born 1870 at St Arnaud, Mornington peninsula, Victoria, Australia, son of the Rev Ralph Brown, he was educated at Toorak College and at Queen's College, Melbourne University. He won several scholarships, graduating in medicine and surgery in 1892 with the Beaney scholarship and the first place in su