Arthur Lawrence Abel was born on 15 November 1895, the son of the Reverend Arthur E Abel, a congregational minister, and he preached in his father's pulpit at the age of 18 years. He did his medical training at University College Hospital, graduating in 1917. He obtained the Fellowship of the Royal

Peter Wright, as he was known all over the world, was one of the kindest and gentlest members of his profession. Born on 3 June 1892, he qualified at University College Hospital in 1915 and proceeded to the FRCS in 1920 and MS London in 1921. As an extremely young medical officer he served in France

Alan Cecil Perry was born on 26 November 1892 at Ware in Hertfordshire, the son of Major H Perry, and received his medical education at the London Hospital. He entered the Medical College in March 1909 having obtained the Price Entrance Scholarship in science. He had a brilliant career as a student

Douglas was born on 25 May 1893, was educated at Bristol University, and the Middlesex and London Hospitals. In 1913 he graduated BSc with first class honours after research in biochemistry. When war broke out in 1914, he joined the Worcester Regiment, and gave up his work as a medical student to se

Francis Younghusband (1938) summarised this life as follows: 'Somervell is no mean mountaineer: he is one of five who have reached the 28,000 feet level. He is no mean painter: his picture of Everest adorns the walls of the Royal Geographical Society's House. He is no mean musician: he has transcrib

William Heneage Ogilvie was born at Valparaiso on 14 July 1887. His father William Ogilvie was an engineer from Dundee and went to Chile for business reasons. Educated at Clifton College and New College, Oxford, where he gained first class honours in physiology in 1910, Heneage Ogilvie proceeded

Rodney Maingot often used to speak of his parrot which resided in his consulting rooms. He claimed it had been trained to say 'You've got gallstones - send for Rodney' to those who entered. Showman? Perhaps, according to some. Master class abdominal surgeon? Certainly, according to the innumerable s

Robert John McNeill Love was born in Devonport on 2 May 1891. His father, Joseph Boyd Love, JP, was an Ulsterman who came to England virtually penniless though he eventually built up a substantial and highly successful warehousing firm in Plymouth, and was mayor of that city at the time of Robert's

Geoffrey Langdon Keynes was born at Harvey Rd, Cambridge, on 25 March 1887, the third child and second son of Dr John Neville Keynes, ScD, the registrar of Cambridge University, and of Florence Ada Keynes, a daughter of Dr John Brown, pastor of the Bunyan (Congregational) Meeting in Bedford. Geoffre