Born in Dublin on January 19th, 1845, the second son of Henry Yeo, of Ceanchor, Howth, JP, clerk of the rules, Court of Exchequer, by his wife Jane, daughter of Captain Ferns. Educated at the Royal School, Dungannon, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated Moderator in natural science 186

David Slome was born in the village of Maitland, near Cape Town, on 24 November 1906, the second eldest of the nine children of East European immigrants. His father had interests in the hotel trade and the canning industry, and this entailed frequent moves, so that David changed school several times

Born at Gravesend, Kent, on 25 June 1885, the third child and only son of Henry Bazett, MRCS and his wife Eliza Ann Cruickshank. He was educated at Dover College and at Wadham College, Oxford. He took his clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as demonstrator of physiology in 191

Born in Malta, the son of the Rev John Keeling, a well-known Wesleyan minister at that time residing in the island. He returned to England with his family and was sent to the Wesleyan School at Woodhouse Grove, near Leeds. He entered the University of Edinburgh in 1848, and after graduating MD pursu

Born at Gloucester in 1863, son of William Washbourn, a descendant of Sir Roger Washbourn, of Knight's Washbourn (*temp* 1370), went to King's College, Gloucester, then studied at Guy's Hospital, winning the Entrance Scholarship in 1881 and greatly distinguishing himself as well by taking prizes at

Peter Rack was born in Grimsby of Quaker stock on 27 October 1928. His father, Ralph Skinner Rack, was a chemical engineer, and his mother Elsie, née Horsman, was a marine biologist. His early education was at Society of Friends Schools in Wigton, Ackworth and Bootham between 1936 and 1946, followin

The son of Benjamin Thompson Lowne, who practised at 17 Bartlett's Buildings, BC. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, assisted his father for some years after qualifying, and then entered the Navy as Assistant Surgeon, but resigned before 1867. In January, 1864, he received a grant from th

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad on 16 September 1901, Emmanuel Ciprian Amoroso was the third oldest of twelve children. He came from an exemplary Roman Catholic family. His father, Thomas Amoroso, had been a book-keeper on an estate in Trinidad and later owned estates of his own, until a slump in th

Born in Granard, Co Longford, and was educated at the Dundalk Institution, whence he passed on to Galway College in 1879, where he carried off all the available scholarships in mathematics and medicine, finally graduating with the highest honours and a 1st class exhibition in the Royal University of

Born 11 November 1864 at Chili, Coshocton County, Ohio, US son of Michael Crile and Margaret Dietz, his wife. He was educated at Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, and Wooster (now the Western Reserve) University, Cleveland, Ohio, where he took his M.D. in 1887 and served as an intern at the Lak

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 on September 3rd, 1829, the son of John Francis Power, a Captain in the 35th (Royal) Sussex Regiment, by his second wife, Hannah, the youngest daughter of Henry Simpson, a banker at Whitby, Yorkshire. His father, who received his commission at the age of 14, had served through the Peninsular an