Born 27 November 1865 at Plymouth, the only son of Admiral John Frederick George Geary Grant, RN and his wife Eliza Jane Gardner. Grant suffered from a lame leg, or he would probably have entered the Navy for his grandfather had also been an admiral. He was educated privately and at St Thomas's Hosp

Born at Sydney, Australia on 27 September 1862, the eldest of four children and only son of the Rev William Johnstone and Margaret King, his wife, who lived to be 100, he grew up in New Zealand where his father was Presbyterian minister at Port Chalmers, and was educated at Otago Boys High School, D

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was clinical assistant in the gynaecological department. He was for some years medical officer of health at Toombay and Kedronshire, Brisbane, Queensland, and during that time lived at Rahere, Clayfield, Brisbane. During the war returned to England, he

Born at Brixton on 13 August 1866, eldest son and second of the seven children of John Bisdee Fawcett, of Lloyd's, and Ellen Hyslop, his wife. His father and mother both died when he was eleven, and the children were brought up by their uncle, Robert Grant, and his wife. He was educated at Dulwich a

Was educated at Owens College, at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, and at the Victoria Dental Hospital. He was House Surgeon both at the Royal Infirmary and at the Victoria Dental Hospital, and also for a time at the British Seamen's Hospital, Royal Albert Dock. Intense deafness led him to take up

Born in London, 8 January 1866, the fourth child and third son of Constantine A Ionides, of the Stock Exchange, and Agatha Fenerly, his wife. He thus belonged to the family of Greek merchants whose art bequests are preserved at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was educated at Winchester, and at Un

Born 13 December 1866, second son of Thomas Albert Littler, law stationer, of Manchester, and Mary Meredith his wife. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and entered Owens College after private tuition with the Rev R M Leigh, of Norbreek near Blackpool. He was afterwards elected an Asso