Born 25 June 1884 at Moville, Co Donegal, fifth child and third son of David Kennedy, MB Dublin, and his wife, *née* Winter. Dr David Kennedy practised in Essequibo, British Guiana, and C M Kennedy was educated at Queen's College there, and at St Edward's School, Oxford. He received his medical trai

Born in 1883 son of Charles Ockwell of Cricklade, Wilts, he received his medical education at Guy's Hospital between the years 1901 and 1906, and while a surgical dresser to W H A Jacobson contracted septicaemia, for which Jacobson treated him during a long period of sickness. When qualified he went

Born on 6 July 1881 he developed an ankylosed tuberculous left hip which seriously interfered with his education. This illness necessitated a long rest in the open air and thus engendered a love of the country from which he profited in later years. Fenwick studied first for the BSc and graduated

Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 16 March 1881, the eldest child of Henry Septimus Miller, a timber merchant, and Annie Elizabeth Potts, his wife. His childhood was spent in Canada, but his parents came back in 1893 and he was educated in London at William Ellis's school and Guy's Hospital, where he won

Henry Nightingale was born in Kingston on Thames on 21 April 1880. His father, James, was a surveyor and his mother before marriage was Agnes Thrupp. He went to school at Kingston Grammar School from where he obtained a scholarship to King's College, London. Nightingale next gained a scholarship

Born in London 20 September 1880, son of James Valentine Austin (1850-1914), a county court judge, and Anna Christina Lorimer, his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he was placed in the first class in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos 1902 an

Born on 2 October 1884 at Hazlemere, Woodside Park, Finchley, the fifth child and third son of Alfred Charles Stebbing, merchant, and Elizabeth Elstob, his wife. He was educated at Emanuel School, Wandsworth Common and at Guy's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and out-patients officer, aft

Born on 2 September 1882 son of Charles Page of Oxton, Cheshire, he was educated at Westminster School and St Thomas's Hospital, where he had a brilliant career as student and athlete, gaining the Musgrove Scholarship for 1902-04, the Beaney Scholarship in 1907-08, the Cheselden medal, the Bristowe

Born in the Channel Isle of Alderney on 28 November 1878, the eldest surviving son of Captain William Gauvain, HM Receiver-General for the Island, and his wife Catherine Le Ber. After a severe attack of scarlet fever while at a preparatory school in England, he was educated privately in Alderney and

Born on 14 December 1875 son of Robinson Souttar DCL, Member of Parliament for Dumfriesshire from 1895 to 1900, he was educated at Oxford High School and Queen's College, Oxford where he took a double first in mathematics and also studied engineering. He was a keen athlete and particularly fond of r

Born on 6 July 1883, he was the eldest son of Godfrey Huggins, member of the London Stock Exchange, of Berkhamsted, and Emily Blest, his wife. After preparatory school Huggins went to Malvern College in January 1898, but had to leave in July 1899 because his schooling was cut short by illness as he