Born on 28 February 1872 at Uduul, Jaffna, Ceylon, the second child and eldest son of William Thiliampalam Paul, a medical practitioner, and Ambrosia Ponamma, his wife. He was educated at the Central College, Jaffna, and at Wesley College, Colombo, before entering the medical school of Presidency Co

Born on 28 December 1876 third of the four sons of William Henry Rothery Nutt, an official of the Bank of England, and his wife née Bloxam, he was educated at Bedford Modern School and St Mary's Hospital, where he was house surgeon, assistant demonstrator of physiology, and clinical assistant and de

Born at Bristol on 26 December 1874, the fourth child and eldest son of Thomas Walters, chartered accountant, and his wife Anna Ferrier. He was educated at Burton College, of which his father's brother was headmaster, and was then apprenticed to a dentist in Park Street, Bristol. In 1895 he entered

Born at Peterborough on 18 December 1874, the third son of Thomas James Walker FRCS, he was educated at Haileybury, at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1896, and at St George's Hospital, where his father had been trained. After serv

Born on 14 October 1875, he won a Grierson bursary at Edinburgh University in 1893 and qualified in 1898. After a term as assistant house surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary in 1899 he attended the Yorkshire College, now Leeds University, and proceeded to the Edinburgh MD in 1905. While at Leeds he m

Born in 1876 he was younger son of Colonel (afterwards General Sir) Charles Warren KCB, GCMG, FRS and Fanny Margaretta Haydon his wife. His grandfather, Major-General Sir Charles Warren KCB, had been Colonel of the 96th Regiment; his father, the second Sir Charles Warren (1840-1927), was a distingui

Born on 29 November 1876 second child and eldest son of Thomas Henry Edwards, a farmer, of Compton Farm, Enford, who died in 1879 aged 26, he was brought up by his grandmother. Edwards was educated at Ardingly College and St Thomas's Hospital, where he was house surgeon. He was in general practice a

Born 23 November 1874 the fourth child and second son of John Mortimer Hunt, a business man, and his wife, née Henderson. He was educated at Harrow, at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in the final school of physiology and worked for a year with Professor J S Haldane, and a

Walter Bernard Secretan was born at Croydon on 15 May 1875 and was educated at Bradfield College and Guy's Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1900. He was a house-surgeon at Guy's and in 1901 graduated with the London MB BS and also obtained the FRCS. In 1902-3 he made two voyages as

Born at Middlesbrough on 16 June 1876 son of Robert Telford, accountant, of Withington and Mary Ann Davison his wife, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1897. He was an assistant surgeon

William Stewart Dickie was born in Glasgow on 10 December 1872. He began work as an office boy in an iron foundry at the age of 13, but when he was 15 he decided to go to sea and sailed as an apprentice in the four-master *Madagascar*. He took his second mate's certificate and his chief officer's ex

Richard Horace Paramore was born in 1876, and started his medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital with an entrance scholarship in science in 1895. The following year he won a junior scholarship in anatomy, distinctions indicating an intelligence which, when combined with the tendency to be argu