John Bertram Gilchrist Muir was born on 18 July 1899 at Kai Yuan, Manchuria, where his father, who had qualified in Edinburgh, was a medical missionary. He was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, Eltham College in London and the Middlesex Hospital. His medical training was interrupted by

Geraldine Mary Barry was born on 4 October at Wakes Colne, Essex, the daughter of the Reverend Walter and Anna Barry. She was educated at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, and was originally destined to read mathematics at Cambridge, but this was changed by the visit of Professor Winifred Cullis (Prof

George Gordon Bruce was born at Aberdeen on 25 August 1891. He was educated at Fordyce Academy and Aberdeen University and was awarded the Keith Gold Medal in surgery, graduating MB ChB Aberdeen in 1915. He then served as a Captain RAMC in France and the Dardanelles and was mentioned in dispatches i

George Armitage was born at Rothwell, near Leeds, on 20 April 1896 the son of George Armitage, a company director and chairman of the family brickworks. His mother was Annie Elizabeth Flocton, the daughter of a prison governor. He was educated at the village school at Ackworth and entered Leeds Medi

Arthur John Gardham, the second son of Arthur and Elizabeth Gardham (née Phelps), was born at Leytonstone, Essex on 4 November 1899. He was educated at Bancroft's School, University College and University College Hospital, London, but his studies were interrupted by the first world war when his fath

Born on March 22 at Kew Park, Bethel Town, Westmoreland, Jamaica, he was the third son of James Rowland Williams, the family having been in Jamaica for many generations. The family was a distinguished one, an elder sister being Dr Cicely Williams CMG, who first detected and described kwashiorkor in