Born 29 September 1866, the third son of George Evans, manager of the Randell and Evans estate, King's Cross, and his wife Clara Maria Muir. He was educated at Bute House and University College and Hospital, London, where he won the silver medal in anatomy 1885 and served as demonstrator of anatomy,

Born 30 April 1869, eldest of the eleven children of Alfred Sheen, MD, MRCS, surgeon to Cardiff Royal Infirmary, and Harriet Nell, his wife. A younger brother rose to be an engineer rear-admiral, Royal Navy. Their father is reputed to have performed the first successful ovariotomy at Cardiff. Educat

Born 28 July 1867 at Stanley House, Clapton, Middlesex, the fourth son and seventh child of Charles Ballance and Caroline Hendebrouck Pollard, his wife. His three elder brothers entered the medical profession, the eldest being Sir Charles Ballance, surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, noticed above.

Born in Dublin on 23 October 1865, the fourth child and second son of Commissary Major-General Latham Blacker, a member of the Co Tyrone landed and military family, and Harriette Demaine Bagot-Smith, his wife. He was educated at Cheltenham College and University College, London, where he won an exhi

Born at Islington on 27 November 1857 eldest of the three sons of Dr James Norton Sherrington of Yarmouth who died young; his widow married Caleb Rose FRCS of Ipswich, and Charles was educated at Ipswich Grammar School, Edinburgh University and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a pupil of Micha

Born 19 June 1869 at Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire, son of Robert Addison, a farmer, and Susan Fanthorpe his wife. He was educated at Trinity College, Harrogate, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was later demonstrator and lecturer in anatomy. He qualified in 1891 and took the Fellowship in 1895. H