Keshav Devdatta Shastri was a general surgeon at Mid Ulster Hospital, Magherafelt, Northern Ireland. He studied medicine at Grant Medical College, Bombay, India, gaining his MB BS in 1946 and his FRCS in 1953. Prior to his appointment in Northern Ireland he was head of the department of surgery at t

Born 30 May 1871, the seventh child and fifth son of William Banting, art dealer, of 27 St. James's Street, London, SW and Mary Pugh, his wife. He was educated at the University of London and took his clinical training at Guy's Hospital. He served as house physician and assistant in the nose, throat

Born at Blythe Court, Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucestershire on 30 April 1855, the sixth child and fifth son of William Barling, MRCVS, veterinary surgeon and farmer, by his wife Eliza Sharpe. He was educated privately until he matriculated at the University of London in 1875 from Queen's College, Birmi

Born at Leigh, near Manchester, 29 January 1853, the eldest child of John Barlow, clothier, and Hannah Welsby, his wife. He was educated at Crowbent, Lancashire, at Anderson's College, Glasgow and at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, graduating from the latter in 1875, having taken the Engl

Educated at St. George's Hospital and at Bristol. He practised at Bristol, where he was at one time Consulting Surgeon to the Dispensary. He was a Member of the British Medical Association. His death occurred at his residence, 4 Tyndall's Park, Clifton, Bristol, on February 18th, 1879.

Born at Chilmark, near Salisbury, on 20 March 1852, the eldest son of William Francis Bennett, a country gentleman, and Selina Solf, his wife. He was educated at Weymouth College and entered St George's Hospital on 16 September 1869, after living for a year with a general practitioner in the country

Born at Glenelg, South Australia in 1876, third son of Charles Rischbieth, merchant, of Adelaide. He was educated at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1898. He then entered the London Hospital, w

Elmhirst-Baxter was born on 18 December 1915 and was educated at Wellington College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Wix prize in 1938 for his essay on David Pitcairn. He qualified in 1939, and dropped his second surname by public advertisement. During the war of 1939-45 he served in

Cole Rous was a brilliant teacher of surgery and after twenty years at the University of Cape Town became Professor of Surgery there in 1947. Unfortunately ill-health forced him to resign in 1948. He was vice-chairman of the steering committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of South Afric

Born 10 October 1860 at Guntoor, Madras Presidency, second son of Frederick William Morris, Indian Civil Service, and Charlotte Georgina Parnell, his wife. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos of 1880, the last ye

Born 8 December 1856, the eldest son of James Morrison, who held a commission in the Royal Artillery, and Elizabeth Jackman, his wife. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar and gained the gold medal for an English essay and the senior scientific prize. He graduated w

Sidney Arthur Boyd was born at Bedford on 20 July 1880, son of Albert Thomas and Marianne Boyd. He was educated at Bedford School and received his medical training at the London Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital, qualifying in 1902. In 1904 he obtained his MB BS degree with honours in medicine, su