Born on 30 June 1876 at Oldham, Lancashire, second son of Roscoe Wrigley, chartered accountant, and his wife Sarah Louisa Milnes. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Owen's College, Manchester, and at the Royal Infirmary, where he was house surgeon. He was Samuel Bradley memorial schola

Born in London on 17 April 1874, the fourth child and third son of Joseph Edmunds, manufacturing dry-salter, and his wife Ann Stroud Swift. His parents were poor and on leaving school he worked for his father's business. His schoolmaster encouraged him to continue his education at night classes and

Born on 24 December 1876 the fourth child and third son of Michael Longridge CBE of Bowdon, Cheshire, President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers 1917-19, and his wife née O'Neill, he was educated at Malvern College and at Owen's College, Manchester, and entered St George's Hospital with a sc

Born 23 November 1874 the fourth child and second son of John Mortimer Hunt, a business man, and his wife, née Henderson. He was educated at Harrow, at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in the final school of physiology and worked for a year with Professor J S Haldane, and a

Born on 3 March 1876 at Blandford, Dorset, the third child and eldest son of James Marshall, who was in business there, and Emily Cole his wife, he was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won a certificate of honour in anatomy in 1896. Marshall was at f

The eldest son of George Soltau, a nonconformist minister of Plymouth, and of his wife Grace Elizabeth Tapson, he was born at Myddleton Square, London, WC, on 21 March 1876. His father, who had been governor of Dr Barnado's Home in London, took charge of a mission church in Tasmania, and his son was

Born at Bristol on 26 December 1874, the fourth child and eldest son of Thomas Walters, chartered accountant, and his wife Anna Ferrier. He was educated at Burton College, of which his father's brother was headmaster, and was then apprenticed to a dentist in Park Street, Bristol. In 1895 he entered

William Stewart Dickie was born in Glasgow on 10 December 1872. He began work as an office boy in an iron foundry at the age of 13, but when he was 15 he decided to go to sea and sailed as an apprentice in the four-master *Madagascar*. He took his second mate's certificate and his chief officer's ex

Born on 23 March 1873, the second son of Charles Percy West of Ambleside, a cotton broker, and Catherine Camidge, his wife. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby, and at Balliol College, Oxford, which he entered with a classical scholarship in 1891. He took a first class in classical m

Born at Bickley, Kent on 3 December 1871, the third son and seventh child of Alexander Forbes Tweedie, JP, solicitor, of Rolvenden, Kent, and Alice Bell, his wife. He was educated at Repton School and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the junior scholarship in anatomy and physiology in 1896

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

Born 22 May 1877 at Dursley, Gloucestershire, the fourth son and youngest of the six children of William Lister, engineer, and his wife, née Fraser. He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was Brackenbury scholar in surgery in 1901 and dressed for