Born on 15 September 1869 at Mears Ashby, Leicestershire, son of the vicar of the parish and his wife Laura Cox. He was educated at University College Hospital, and won the Erichsen prize in practical surgery. He served as clinical assistant in the throat, nose, and ear department, and senior clinic

Born 20 December 1862, the only child of Dr John Comley Olive, whose name is not in the *Medical Register*, and his wife, *née* Binley. He was educated at Caversham, Reading, and at St John's College, Cambridge, of which he was an exhibitioner. He took second class honours in the Natural Sciences Tr

Born at Simla, 6 June 1879, son of Colonel J Goldie. He was educated at Charterhouse 1892-96 and then passed into Sandhurst, as it was intended that he should enter the army. Disqualified on account of defective vision, he went to St Mary's Hospital where he served as house surgeon and house physici

Born in Eastern Bengal, 23 June 1878, the sixth child and second son of Frederick William Joseph Rees, of the Bengal civil service, and Alice Hawthorn Heathcote, his wife. He was educated at Haileybury and the Middlesex Hospital, where he won a prize in anatomy and in 1899 a second-year exhibition,

Born on 14 June 1870, he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, where he qualified in 1895. He continued his studies in London obtaining the MB with honours in medicine in 1902 and the FRCS in 1903. Shortly after this Mumford settled in practice at Bath where he spent his working life. He was appointed

Born on 17 July 1873 in Victoria, Australia, the second son of William Lee a farmer, and his wife née Goss, he was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat, and Queen's College, Melbourne, qualifying from Melbourne University in 1897. He practised at Melbourne till the outbreak of war in 1914, and be

Son of George Alfred Rouquette, of 3 Grassington Place, Eastbourne; after going to Eastbourne College, he was admitted to King's College, Cambridge, on October 6th, 1905, and graduated BA with 2nd class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1908. He became a student at St Thomas's Hospital in 190

Born on 22 November 1885 at Leicester, the son of Samuel Bilson Noon, solicitor, he was educated at Blair Lodge, Stirling, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon to Sir Holburt Waring and Sir Charles Gordon-Watson, and as chief assistant in the gynaecology department unde

Born at Dalry, Ayrshire on 25 March 1872, the fifth son and ninth youngest child of Andrew Blair Aitken and his wife Jane Young. He was educated at the Ayrshire Academy, Ayr, and at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1893. After holding resident appointments at Oldham Infirmary and the Wirral

Born on 17 February 1888, son of Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Cooke Alton CB, CMG, RN, he was educated at Bedford School. After qualifying from St Thomas's Hospital in 1910, he entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon. Four years later he graduated MB BS at London University. During the first world

Born at Dewsbury, Yorkshire, the second child and second son of Benjamin Hepworth, woollen manufacturer, and his wife, *née* Haley. He was educated at the Wheelwright Grammar School, Dewsbury, and won a scholarship at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sci

Born at Aberdeen, 16 May 1886, eldest son of George Anderson, a landed proprietor and farmer, and his wife, *née* Morison. He was educated at Fordyce Academy, Banffshire, and at Aberdeen University, which he entered in 1904, and won gold medals both in medicine and surgery at his graduation in 1909.