Born on 13 May 1887, Andrew Carey McAllister entered the medical department of King's College, London, in 1905. He qualified with the Conjoint diploma in 1912, held house appointments at King's College Hospital, and became obstetric registrar in 1914. When war broke out he obtained a commission in t

Born in 1889 the eldest son of S W McCullagh of Belfast, he was educated at the Methodist College and Queen's University. On the outbreak of war he joined the RAMC and served throughout in France, winning the MC at the beginning and the DSO at the end of the war and being five times mentioned in dis

Born on 3 August 1890 one of the four children of John Martin McCurrich, chief engineer of the Bristol and Avonmouth Dock, he was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Vienna. Qualifying in 1915, he joined the Army as a combatant in the Middlesex Regiment but was later

Leonard Barron was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Newcastle. He was born in Whitechapel, London. His father, Lazar ('Louis') Barronovitch, was a tailor specialising in women's clothes and worked in the East End. He adopted the name of 'Barron', later formalising this by Deed Poll. Le

Born at 45 Hope Park Crescent, Edinburgh on 14 July 1867, son of James McCann, mantle-maker of Cockburn Street, and Elspeth Bell, his wife. He was educated at George Watson's College and at Edinburgh University, qualifying in 1888 and acting for a time as demonstrator of anatomy. He later studied in

Born on 20 January 1876 the second son of John Hedley MD, JP of Middlesbrough and his wife née Williams, he was educated at Uppingham and at King's College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1898. His elder brother Edward, afterwards anaesthetist t

Sir Eardley Lancelot Holland had been senior obstetrician and gynaecologist to the London Hospital for 20 years. In 1943 he was elected the fifth President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. His academic achievements were many and deservedly he was regarded as one of the most

Ivor Hughes was born at Tredegar on 23 December 1901, to Morgan Howell Hughes, a provision merchant and Harriet Hughes (née Reynolds). He attended Llandovery College and qualified from Bristol in 1927 with the Conjoint Diploma. After a resident appointment at Bristol he came to London and was RMO at

Born 19 July 1891, the third and youngest son of Peter Dobson Hayes of Stockport. He was educated at Manchester before entering the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. His student days were broken by the outbreak of war and he served in the Royal Field Artillery from 10 September 1914 till 12 August

Born at Pilkington, Lancashire on 10 May 1856, the third child and second son of James Briggs, he was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, at Owens College, Manchester, and at Edinburgh University. There he learnt anatomy from Sir William Turner, and was senior medallist; and surgery from List

Born 21 December 1865 at Bathgate, West Lothian, eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1838-1912, for whom see *DNB*), then minister of the Bathgate Evangelical Union Congregational Church, and Jane, his wife, daughter of John Shields, of Byres, Bathgate. He was educat

Born on 26 October 1871, son of Robert Hicks MRCS 1857, who practised at Ramsgate, Kent, he took his medical training at Guy's Hospital, where he served as house physician. He was resident surgical officer and surgeon to out-patients at the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children and assistant surgeon at