Born 14 April 1867 at Berwick, Victoria, Australia, third child and second son of Robert Buchanan, a landowner, and Jessie Spittal his wife, he was educated at Ballarat College, Victoria, qualified from Glasgow University in 1899, and was house surgeon at Glasgow Western Infirmary 1890-91. He worked

Francis Gordon Bell was born at Marlborough, New Zealand, in 1887, and was educated at Marlborough High School, where he became captain of rugby and vice-captain of the cricket team. He came to Britain in 1905 and entered Edinburgh University, where he was awarded the Vans Dunlop Scholarship in anat

Born at Nalpa Station, Wellington, South Australia on 30 July 1871, son of Josiah Bonnin the station manager and his wife, *née* Frew. He was educated at Glenelg Grammar School and Adelaide University, where he graduated in 1895. He spent the next three years in London, taking the Conjoint qualifica

Born at Bendigo, Victoria on 1 January 1867, the younger son of James Boyd, MD St Andrews 1852, who was attached to the Bendigo Gold District Hospital. He was educated at Bendigo and at the University of Melbourne, served as resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital from April 1891 to May 1

Alan Newton was born in Melbourne, 30 April 1887, son of Hibbert H Newton, Clerk of Parliaments in Victoria, and his wife, who was descended from the distinguished English legal family of Stephen. He was educated at Haileybury College, Melbourne, and Melbourne University, where he qualified in 1909,

Born on 9 August 1860 at Hackney in London, the sixth son and seventh child of Robert Voss, solicitor, who came of a Welsh family settled for many centuries in Glamorganshire, and Charlotte Phillips Smith, his wife. He was educated at Stafford College, Forest Hill, and at the London Hospital, where

Educated in Melbourne, he was appointed resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital in 1892 and then of the Women's Hospital in Melbourne in 1893-94, after which he became surgical superintendent of Geelong Hospital, Victoria in 1895, and in 1896 surgical superintendent of the Victoria Eye an

Born in Bathurst in 1874 son of W Burton Wade, he was educated at Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney. Qualifying in 1896, he commenced a lifelong association with the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, starting as resident medical officer in 1896, then senior resident medical officer in 1

Born at Taynish, North Knapdale, Argyll on 31 July 1856, son of Archibald MacCormick, farmer and ship-master, and his wife Mary Campbell of Barnashaly, North Knapdale. He was educated by Mr Stewart at Lochgilphead, Argyll, and at Edinburgh University, where he was a class-mate in the medical school

Born in Glasgow in 1879 son of Blair Robertson, he was educated at St Dunstan's College and Guy's Hospital. After qualifying he spent a year in South Africa, but in 1905 he went to New Zealand where he spent the rest of his life. For five years medical superintendent of Waihi Hospital, in 1912 he wa

Phillip Foster was born in April 1885 and first lived in Timaru. He was educated in Hawera and later went to the Otago Boys' School. His medical education took place at Otago University where he qualified in 1909. Foster began his medical career at Christchurch Hospital, an association which was to

Born at Grafton, New South Wales on 8 August 1880, son of Charles Page, coach-builder, and his wife Mary Cox, both his parents being Australian born and inheriting from their parents a tradition of public service, he qualified from the University of Sydney in 1902, was a resident at the Prince Alfre