Michael Arthur Pugh was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at University College Hospital, London and the Whittington Hospital. He was born in Manchester on 6 October 1929, the son of Robert Arthur Pugh, a journalist, and Norah Margaret Pugh née Rees, a market research executive. The family

Selby Tait was born on 9 December 1902 in Hexham, Northumberland, the son of James Andrew Tait, BA, a Congregational Minister, and his wife Anne Olene née Clemmetsen, who was Norwegian by birth. He attended the Dame School, Hexham, then the Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he was awarded the sc

Michael Burton was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Hillingdon and Ealing hospitals. He was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on 28 July 1926, the second son of Rennie Cooksey, a general practitioner, and Elsie Jane née Laycock, the daughter of an adviser in music. He began

George Frederick Gibberd was born on 18 April 1902 and grew up in Dulwich. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School and Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1923. He became MS (London) in 1926 and FRCS in 1927 and a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1933. He was ele

Miles Harris Phillips was born at Portishead, near Bristol in 1875, and was educated at Bristol Grammar School where he became captain of cricket, and his love of the game was life-long. He did his pre-clinical studies at University College, Bristol, and then came to King's College and the London Ho

Richard Braithwaite Keevil Rickford, the first of similar twins of Leslie Thomas Rickford, a banker, and Gladys Georgina Rickford (née Keevil), was born on 1 June 1914, at Hampstead. He was educated at The Gables, Bexhill-on-Sea, and then at the junior and senior schools of Weymouth College, Dors

Born in Paris on 16 June 1860 of a family which came from Mulhouse in Alsace, he was an interne at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1881-82 under Terrier, Lailler, Lannelongue, Guyon, and Duplay, and worked at the École pratique under Faraboeuf. He was demonstrator of anatomy 1884 and prosector 1886, and he receiv

Frank O'Gorman was born at Bradford on 11 September 1910. No information is available about his forbears, but when he was ten years old his family moved to Glasgow where he was educated at the Jesuit School of St Aloysius before studying medicine at Glasgow University. An outstanding athlete, he pla

Practised as a surgeon at 72 Guilford Street, London, WC, where he was Surgeon to the German Hospital and at one time President of the Hunterian Society. He has a place among the early operators upon ovarian cysts in this country, as described by him in the *London Medical Gazette* (1842-3, xxxi,

Margaret Salmond as she preferred to be called, was born on 20 January 1897, at Ilkley, Yorkshire, the only child of Percy Newby Salmond, a merchant, also a Major in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Scots Regiment, and of his wife, Elaine Marguerite, nee Bouch. Her early education was at St

Rees Lloyd-Jones was a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born in Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, north Wales, the only child of Griffith and Marie Lloyd Jones; his father was a farmer and garage owner. They were Welsh speaking and strict Methodists, which

Tom Lewis was a respected London obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was born in Hampstead on 27 May 1918, but regarded himself as a South African of Welsh origin. His great-grandfather, Charles Lewis, had run away to sea from Milford Haven and settled in Cape Town in about 1850, where he established