Born 3 November 1868 the third and youngest child of John McGavin, a merchant at Calcutta, and his wife, *née* Brown. He was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and subsequently passed out of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, being gazetted lieutenant in the 6th Dragoon Guards, the Carabinee

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

Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he made postgraduate study at St Mary's and King's College Hospitals, London, and also in Vienna, Paris, and Würzburg. He served as house surgeon at the West London Hospital, and as clinical assistant in surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He emigrated t

Born in New Zealand about 1869, he was educated at Dunedin, and graduated in arts in 1890. He took his medical training at Edinburgh, qualifying in 1895, and was house physician at the Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital, Edinburgh, and house surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Children and

Born about 1879 he was educated at Otago Medical School, New Zealand, and subsequently at the London Hospital, where he was house surgeon. While in England, during 1897 to 1901, he worked also at St Peter's Hospital for Stone. He then went to Victoria, Australia, living at St Kilda's, Melbourne a

Educated at St Bartholomew's and the Middlesex Hospitals, he served as a clinical assistant at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He was a civil surgeon in South Africa during the Boer War and then settled in practice at 151 Ashley Gardens, Westminster. He had been assistant resident medical officer at

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

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 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

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

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