Baron Theodore Rose was born on 21 July 1892 and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and the Birmingham Medical School. He graduated BSc in 1914 and MB ChB in 1916. After resident posts at Cardiff, Bristol and the Royal Northern Hospital, London, he took the FRCS Edinburgh and became resid

John Basil Hume was born in Whitby on 29 September 1893, and was educated at Bootham School, York. In 1911 he came to St Bartholomew's and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1916. After a house appointment he joined the RAMC and served in East Africa for the rest of the first world war, gaining

William Bashall Gabriel was born on 2 October 1893 and spent his boyhood at Oulton Broad, Suffolk. There he learned to sail, a hobby which was a joy to him throughout his life. Educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and Epsom College, he qualified at the Middlesex Hospital in 1916 and after a house

Born on 10 March 1891, son of T L and S A Griffiths, he studied medicine at the University of Wales and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He served as a surgeon-probationer in the RNVR 1914-15, qualified in 1916, and was a surgeon to the 1st London Hospital 1916-18, being mentioned in dispatches. He was al

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

Born on 8 February 1894 in Higher Crumpsall, Manchester, the youngest son of the eight children of Mr and Mrs John Newell, he was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and the Medical School of the University of Manchester. An undergraduate at the beginning of the first world war, he volunteered

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