Born in Scotland on 22 November 1870, the eldest child of Andrew Howat, a muslin merchant, and his wife née Smith, he was educated at Pollokshields Academy and Glasgow University where he qualified in 1892. He took the English conjoint diplomas in 1893 and the Fellowship in 1896 but continued to pra

Born 10 June 1869 at the Swan Hotel, Bucklow Hill, Rotherne, Knutsford, Cheshire, the son of James Henry Cuff of Rangemore, Altrincham, Cheshire, manufacturer of mineral waters, and Katherine Elizabeth Greaves, his wife. He was educated at Bowdon College, Cheshire and at Owen's College, Manchester.

Born at Malmesbury, Wiltshire on 13 July 1867 the second son of Colonel J R Luce DL, JP and Mary Visger his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1889, and graduated in medicine in 1893. He