Phillip Foster was born in April 1885 and first lived in Timaru. He was educated in Hawera and later went to the Otago Boys' School. His medical education took place at Otago University where he qualified in 1909. Foster began his medical career at Christchurch Hospital, an association which was to

He was educated at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1910. Coming to England for postgraduate study, he worked at St George's Hospital, took the Fellowship in 1915, and saw active service in the RAMC during the first world war. Returning to Sydney he became surgeon to the Royal Prince Alfred,

Born 11 June 1870 at Paringa sheep station, Murray River, South Australia, son of James Francis Cudmore and Margaret Bridge, his wife. He was educated at St Peter's College, Whinham, and Adelaide University, where he qualified in 1894. Coming to England he worked at the London Hospital under Sir Fre

Born in Victoria, Australia on 13 May 1878, son of John Devine, a grazier in the Werribee district, he was educated at St Patrick's College, Ballarat. After a country apprenticeship in pharmacy, he was employed by Henry Francis, an old established pharmacist in Bourke Street, Melbourne, whose sho

Born at Nalpa Station, Wellington, South Australia on 30 July 1871, son of Josiah Bonnin the station manager and his wife, *née* Frew. He was educated at Glenelg Grammar School and Adelaide University, where he graduated in 1895. He spent the next three years in London, taking the Conjoint qualifica

Born at Bendigo, Victoria on 1 January 1867, the younger son of James Boyd, MD St Andrews 1852, who was attached to the Bendigo Gold District Hospital. He was educated at Bendigo and at the University of Melbourne, served as resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital from April 1891 to May 1

Educated in Melbourne, he was appointed resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital in 1892 and then of the Women's Hospital in Melbourne in 1893-94, after which he became surgical superintendent of Geelong Hospital, Victoria in 1895, and in 1896 surgical superintendent of the Victoria Eye an

Francis Gordon Bell was born at Marlborough, New Zealand, in 1887, and was educated at Marlborough High School, where he became captain of rugby and vice-captain of the cricket team. He came to Britain in 1905 and entered Edinburgh University, where he was awarded the Vans Dunlop Scholarship in anat

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1881, son of Casement Aickin, merchant, and Elizabeth Mitchell Garde his wife. Aickin came of a medical family on both sides, for his mother was the daughter of Thomas Garde, MD and his grandfather Thomas Leland Aickin was MD of Trinity College, Dublin and FR

Born on 19 August 1876 in Birmingham, son of John McGavin, he was educated at King Edward's High School and the University of Birmingham. He trained at the London Hospital, winning a gold medal and university scholarship. During the South African war he served as a civilian surgeon with the army, im

Born on 9 August 1860 at Hackney in London, the sixth son and seventh child of Robert Voss, solicitor, who came of a Welsh family settled for many centuries in Glamorganshire, and Charlotte Phillips Smith, his wife. He was educated at Stafford College, Forest Hill, and at the London Hospital, where

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