Lennox Ross Broster was born in South Africa in 1889, and received his early education at St Andrew's College and the Rhodes University College (now Rhodes University), Grahamstown, Cape Province. Elected to a Rhodes Scholarship in 1909, he entered Trinity College, Oxford, to study medicine, and fro

Second son of John James Street Driberg and Amy Mary Irving Bell, his wife, of Uckfield Lodge, Crowborough, he qualified from the London Hospital where he was surgical registrar and first assistant in the surgical unit and became an assistant surgeon. He served in the RAMC during the war of 1914-18,

Frederick Curtis was born in 1873, the son of Albert Curtis MRCS 1857, a general practitioner at Staines, Middlesex, and grandson of Frederick Curtis MRCS 1832, who had practised there previously. He was brought up a Quaker and educated at Bootham, York. His family had a long tradition in medicine f

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 14 December 1878, the second son and third child of Robert Harry Hughes, MB, who was in general practice at Plymouth, and his wife Laetitia Cavanagh Jervis. His elder brother Lawson Jervis Hughes, after training at Guy's Hospital, was killed in the South African war, when he was serving as a mo

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 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

Edward Thomas Campbell Milligan was born on 23 June 1886 at Waterloo, near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, where his father mined gold. When the gold vein ran out the family moved to Stanwell, near Melbourne. They came of Methodist stock and this showed its effects throughout Milligan's life, in his

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 on 14 August 1872 at Moss Hall, Finchley, Middlesex, the elder son of John Campin Newman, stockbroker, and Fanny, his wife, daughter of Roger Peele of Park House, South Molton, North Devon. He was educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Cambridge, before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital, wh

Born 10 March 1881 at Hinckley, Leicestershire, the second child and only son of Edward Simpson, a schoolmaster, and Charlotte McCann, his wife. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar, and took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos,

Born 1881 at Worcester, the younger son of Tom Bates, MRCS 1868, and Alice Mary Davis, his wife. The elder son, Tom Bates, was also a Fellow. Mark Bates was educated at King's School, Worcester, and at St John's College, Oxford, where he took third-class honours in physiology in the final school of