Born 7 March 1864, eldest of the ten children of John Badcock, a draper, and Mary Frampton his wife, he was educated at University College School, and was then apprenticed to Percy May MRCS, a dental surgeon. He went on to the London School of Dentistry (now the Royal Dental Hospital), qualified in

Somewhat above middle height, clean-shaven with prematurely white hair and of ascetic appearance, Cecil Beadles was unmarried and lived for his garden and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was so excessively shy that he was rarely seen even by his colleagues unless they went

Born at Brixton on 13 August 1866, eldest son and second of the seven children of John Bisdee Fawcett, of Lloyd's, and Ellen Hyslop, his wife. His father and mother both died when he was eleven, and the children were brought up by their uncle, Robert Grant, and his wife. He was educated at Dulwich a

Born on 24 October 1867, the only child of Stephen Yearsley and Joanna Bowring Chittenden, his wife. His father's father, James Yearsley, was a first cousin of the famous otologist of the same name (see P M Y's letter in *British Medical Journal* 12 March 1935, 1, 596). The family originated in York

Born in Dublin on 23 October 1865, the fourth child and second son of Commissary Major-General Latham Blacker, a member of the Co Tyrone landed and military family, and Harriette Demaine Bagot-Smith, his wife. He was educated at Cheltenham College and University College, London, where he won an exhi

Born at Barton-upon-Irwell, 19 June 1867, the son of George Hibbert Westmacott, wholesale chemist, and Rosena Berry, his wife. He was educated at the Grammar School, at the University, and at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester. As soon as he had qualified he went to Burma in the capacity of surgeon to

Born 3 August 1867 in Bombay, India, eldest son of William Soltau Eccles (1843-1919), MRCS, LSA, who later practised at Norwood, and his wife Annie Selina Campbell McAdam, a descendant of John Loudon McAdam, the road builder. The Eccles family had a long medical tradition and a close connexion with