Born at Stonham Aspall, of the Rev John George Pooley, vicar of Stonham Aspall. He was educated at Tonbridge during the year 1882-3 and at Lancing for three years. He was admitted to Caius College Cambridge on 1 October 1886 but left without graduating after a residence of three years. He entered St

Born at Exeter 28 December 1852, the fourth child and third son of Isaac Lang, corn and seed merchant, and Sarah Lindon Parnell, his wife. He was educated at the Moravian School, Lausanne, and entered the London Hospital on 1 October 1870. Here he was house surgeon, house physician, and demonstrator

Born on 24 October 1886 at Barnsley, Yorkshire, the sixth child and fifth son of Charles Robinson, timber merchant, and Emma Naylor, his wife. He was educated at Barnsley High School, the Leeds Medical School, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After serving as house surgeon at the Leeds General Infirma

Born 23 December 1859 at Croft House, Stanhope in Weardale, Durham, the son of Richardson Robinson, the local builder, and his wife, who was of Scotch descent and Huguenot extraction. Educated at the Barrington Village School and at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Modern School, he entered the University of

Born on 18 December 1893, in Chungking, China, son of C J Davenport FRCS, Robert Cecil Davenport was educated at Mill Hill School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1916, and then joined the RAMC, serving as a captain in the first world war. After demobilisation he returned to St B

Educated at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was obstetric house physician, and in Brussels, he was a clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and specialised as an ophthalmologist. He practised at Trealaw, Rhondda, Glamorgan, South Wales and was ophthalmic surgeon to the Urban Dis

Born in London about 1875, the son of George Loosely, he was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, took second-class honours in physiology, and had his clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as ophthalmic house surgeon. He was a clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital and

Born in London on 19 July 1876 a son of William McMullen of Camberwell, he was educated at the City of London School, King's College, London and King's College Hospital. After qualification he served as house surgeon, curator and pathologist at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. His first co

Born on 19 June 1890 son of Robert Wheddon Gimblett he was educated at Clifton College and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Science Tripos, part 1, 1911. At St Thomas's Hospital he was house surgeon and senior ophthalmic surgeon at the R N Hospitals at Chat

Robert Lindsay-Rea was born in Belfast in 1881 and went to school there, and proceeded to Queen's University where he obtained the BSc degree with honours in 1912, and graduated MB BCh BAO with honours in 1915. He served in the army in the first world war, and supervised the X-ray work of the 4th Ar

Born on 11 March 1896 at Oudtshoorn, Cape, South Africa, he was educated at University College School and Hospital, London, winning the Lister medal for clinical surgery in 1918 and serving as house surgeon and ophthalmic registrar. He was commissioned in the South African Medical Corps towards the

Arthur Lister was born in Aberdeen on 12 February 1905. His father was a physician and Lord Lister was his great-uncle. He was educated at Lancing and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1927. He began his clinical studies that year, entering the London Hospital with a Price Univers