The third son of John Mayo (1761-1818), MD Oxon, born in Queen Anne Street, London, on April 3rd, 1796. He entered the Middlesex Hospital on May 17th, 1814, and was there a pupil of Sir Charles Bell until 1815, becoming a House Surgeon in 1818, by which time he had taken his MD degree at Leyden. In

Educated at Queen's College, Birmingham, where he was afterwards Hon Pathologist, Demonstrator of Anatomy, and Professor of Anatomy. He was at one time Resident Medical Officer of the Bradford Infirmary and Dispensary, but from about the year 1866 he practised in Bristol Road, and latterly at 56 New

Born at Warrington. He studied at University College, Liverpool, and at Edinburgh, where after graduation he acted as Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy under Sir James Russell and as Senior Demonstrator under Sir William Turner. Young then went to Manchester in 1877 as Demonstrator of Anatomy and As

Born at Oxford on 3 July 1877, he graduated from Lincoln College with first-class honours in physiology in 1898. He qualified in 1902 from Guy's Hospital, where he was senior science scholar, and held resident posts there and at the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, Plymouth. He took the Fello

Vyramji Bharucha was born in India on 21 February 1886 and obtained his medical education at Bombay University, the Middlesex Hospital and King's College, London. In 1910 he joined the Indian Medical Service with the rank of Lieutenant, becoming Captain in 1913, Major in 1922 and Lieutenant-Colonel

James Hunter was born in Edinburgh on 20 April 1936, the son of James Hunter a golf greenkeeper. He attended the Portobello High School in Edinburgh and then St Margaret's Anfield School in Liverpool from 1949 to 1952. During the years 1956-57 he studied at the Liverpool Technical College and then w

Laurence Ingle was born in Cambridge in 1892, the son of Arnold Clarkson Ingle, a general practitioner who was also physician to the Leys School. Laurence went to the Leys, and then to King's College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1909 as an Exhibitioner. He was devoted to music and to rowing, beco

John Pegington was born at Pontypool, Gwent, on 10 September 1934, the only child of Arthur John Pegington, a building contractor, and Edith May, née Pearce, the daughter of a cobbler. He recalled growing up surrounded by coal mining and music and, after education at Pentnewynydd Primary School and

Percival Templeton Crymble was born on 21 March 1880 and graduated at the Royal University of Ireland in 1904. After acting as demonstrator of anatomy in Belfast he took his Fellowship in 1908 and then studied in London and Vienna. When he returned to Ireland in 1910 he was appointed assistant surge

Edward Francis Shanahan studied medicine at the National University of Ireland where he qualified MB BCh BAO in 1944 with first place and first class honours and won the McArdle Medal. He was an associate member of the International Society of Surgeons. He became lecturer in anatomy at University Co

Eric Harris was born on 18 October 1904 in Harbledown, Canterbury, the son of a pharmacist. He was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and the Middlesex Hospital. He qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1927 and MB, BS in 1929, and he became FRCS in 1941. During the war, he held temporary appointments as

Alwynne Rowlands was born in Launceston, Tasmania on 19 July 1905 and after attending the Launceston Church of England Grammer School he entered Melbourne University from which he graduated MB, BS in 1930. After resident posts at the Alfred Hospital he came to England where he was resident surgical