Born on November 1st, 1812, at Gosport, where his father was a medical practitioner. He was privately educated at Watford, whither his family moved. He entered as a student at University College Hospital in 1829, and after qualifying was for five years (1837-1842) House Surgeon at the Chichester Inf

Elliot Philipp was an eminent gynaecologist and obstetrician, author of numerous popular and technical medical works, and a committed religious and charitable Jew. He was born on 20 July 1915 to Oscar Isaac and Clarisse Philipp (née Weil) in Stoke Newington, London. He was educated at Warwick House

Born at Oldham, the son of James Whitehead, who had a great local reputation as a herbalist and dealer in simples. James, after working as a boy in a cotton mill, attended the Marsden Street School of Medicine in Manchester and was apprenticed first to Mr Clough, of Lever Street, and afterwards to W

Born at Westbury, Wilts 9 May 1896. In 1914 she entered the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women, graduating with honours in surgery. She proceeded to the MD degree, winning the university medal in midwifery and gynaecology. She held junior house appointments at the Royal Free H

Born at Dundee in 1898, son of the Rev R W Dodds, a methodist minister. He was educated at the Methodist College, Belfast, and at Queen's University. He interrupted his training to join the RNVR during the first world war, and served in destroyers. He qualified in 1920 and, after being house physici

Catherine Hamlin, Australia’s most renowned obstetrician and gynaecologist, co-founded Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia with her husband Reginald Hamlin, a healthcare network treating women who suffer from the debilitating effects of obstetric fistula – a horrific childbirth injury. To say Catherine was a

Charles Halstead was born in Auckland on 11 September 1913. His father, Regement Dines Halstead, was company manager of the NZ Union Shipping Company, and his mother was Ivy Davies, née MacNab. He went to school at Timaru Boys' High School, and then to Otago Medical School. He held junior posts in D

Went to Bury St Edmunds Grammar School, then to Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, to which the fame of Sir Astley Cooper attracted him as it did others. He settled in practice at Framlingham, Suffolk, and there gained for himself the honour of being amongst the first in England to remove an ovarian c

John Woodward Horsley was born in Auckland in 1906. His father, Arthur Horsley, was a chemist in downtown Auckland at the turn of the century. John used to say that he and his mother, Alice, spanned 100 years of medical practice as she was the third woman to graduate from Otago Medical School and th

Born in Exeter on June 19th, 1885, the son of Richard Ley, of Exmouth. He was educated at Malvern and at the London Hospital, where he won the Obstetric Scholarship and Prize in 1907 and was Pathological Assistant. In 1910 he became House Surgeon at the Gloucester Royal Infirmary, proceeding thence

The son of Edward Lea, of Sandbach, Cheshire, and a nephew through his mother of Dr F W Warrington, of Congleton. He was educated at Parkhurst School, Buxton, and at Owens College. He afterwards held resident appointments at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, where he was House Surgeon, at the Hospital

Born on June 4th, 1848, at East Rudham, Norfolk, where both his father, Frederic Manby, and his grandfather had practised. Educated at Epsom College, he then studied at Guy's Hospital, where he was Obstetric Resident, after which he joined his father in the family practice. His elder brother was Fre