Puspanathan Sadasivan Vaithilingam was born in Durban, on 19 September 1927, the eldest son in a family of eight brothers and one sister. His father, Sadasivan Vaithilingam, was a successful farmer, and his mother was Pappathee, née Reddy. After schooling at Sastri College he emigrated to Scotland i

Anthony Partridge was born on 8 February 1920, in London, the son of Walter Partridge, a dental surgeon, and Evelyn Edgar. After education at Framlingham College, Suffolk, he entered Charing Cross Hospital where he qualified and held appointments as house surgeon in general surgery, and as house sur

John Nicholas Rimmer was born in Widnes, Lancashire, on 26 July 1924. His father was John Rimmer, a farmer, and his mother was Florence Woods. His father-in-law, Harold Frederick Leese, LDSRCS, was a dental surgeon in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, for forty years. John Rimmer attended Wade Deacon Scho

Son of a pastoralist, Donald Wallace Fleming ("Don" or sometimes "Walt" to his friends) was born in Carnarvon 2 January 1917. He attended the local primary School in Carnarvon then Guildford Grammar School in Perth, completing his schooling in 1934. In those days, to do medicine it was necessary

Born on January 3rd, 1837, the second son of William Catt, of West House, Portland Place, Brighton, who was well known in business circles in Brighton, his mother being Elizabeth, the fourth daughter of William Verrall, of Southover, Lewes; both came of old Sussex families. William Catt, by royal li

Walter Briggs was born in Blackburn on 15 June 1880. He entered Owen's College, Manchester, in 1897, graduating MB ChB in 1902 with second-class honours in the Victoria University, which still included Owen's College, University College, Liverpool and Yorkshire College, Leeds. Two years later he gai

Born at Penllwyn Place, Brecon, on March 4th, 1816, studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and in 1845 began private practice at 33 Newhall Street, Birmingham, in partnership with William Royden Watts. He was Surgeon to the Birmingham Orthopaedic Hospital, took a keen share in the development o

Born on 5 April 1880 at Memphis, Tennessee, USA, the second of the three sons of Robert Woolfenden, cotton merchant, and Sarah Smith, his wife. He was educated at Bickerton House School, Birkdale, and then entered the Liverpool Medical School, where he had a brilliant career as an undergraduate, bec

Born on 12 March 1887 the son of Alexander Noble and Margaret Paterson his wife, he was educated at Edinburgh University and University College, London. He held resident posts at Leith, Greenwich, and Queen Charlotte's Hospital, and served in France during the first world war. He took the Fellowship

Born in 1875, from 1904 to 1908 he was assistant to Professor C F A Koch at the University Surgical Clinic, Utrecht, after which he was lecturer in operative surgery until 1913. Refusing an invitation to become Professor of Anatomy, he went to Rotterdam as surgeon at Coolsingel Hospital. Here he had

Born on St David's Day 1883 in Rhymney, the third and youngest son of David Rocyn Jones, Arthur came of a family of Welsh bone-setters. His Pembrokeshire great-grandfather, Thomas Jones, was a farmer with a reputation for treating animals, whose son (1822-1877) and grandson (1847-1915) were bone-set

Arthur Chance was born in Dublin on 15 November 1889, the third son of Sir Arthur Chance, past President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1904 and 1905 and surgeon to the Marta Hospitals, and Martha, née Ronnaey. He was educated in Kildare and the Trinity College, Dublin. As a student