Somerville Hastings was born on 4 March 1878 at Warminster, Wiltshire, the son of the Rev H G Hastings. He was educated at Wycliffe College, Stonehouse, Wiltshire and at University College, London, where he won gold and silver medals for botany. He won an entrance scholarship to the Middlesex Hospit

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

William Warwick James was born on 20 September 1874 in Wellingborough School, and also had the advantage of making good use of his father's fine library. Having decided to become a dentist he began his training as an apprentice in his native town and then came to London to the Royal Dental and the M

Born at Oxford on 3 July 1877, he graduated from Lincoln College with first-class honours in physiology in 1898. He qualified in 1902 from Guy's Hospital, where he was senior science scholar, and held resident posts there and at the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, Plymouth. He took the Fello

Born in Devonport on 29 December 1879 son of W J W Waterfield, Inspector of Machinery, Royal Navy, he was educated at Plymouth College and St Bartholomew's Hospital. While at school he was in the cricket and football elevens and at St Bartholomew's, where he was also in the football eleven, he was a

Born on 6 January 1874 at Ware, second child and eldest son of Millice Culpin LRCP & SEd, and Hannah Munsey his wife. He was educated at the Grocers Company's School, where he acquired his life-long interest in entomology. His father emigrated to Taringa, Queensland, Australia in search of health an

Born 14 February 1878 at Stafford House, Sutton, Surrey, the second son and second child of Thomas Hamer Dolbey, barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, and Louisa Ann Jones, his wife. She was the daughter of Robert Jones, MRCS 1842, LSA 1830, of Strefford, Craven Arms, Shropshire. Dolbey was educate

Born at Woolwich on 23 August 1876, only son of George Whale, solicitor, and Matilda Whale, his wife. He was educated at Bradfield, at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he played lawn-tennis for the university club "The Grasshoppers", and at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he served as house physician

Matthew Robert Cecil McWatters, son of David McWatters of Bath, was born there on 4 January 1878. He was educated at Bath Grammar School and at King's College, London, taking the Conjoint diploma in 1902 and the MB the following year. At King's College Hospital he was chosen by Sir Watson Cheyne as

Born on 22 February 1880, second child and eldest son of the four sons and three daughters of William George Rowntree, MRCS 1874, of Islington, and his wife, *née* Kirkby. He was educated at Islington High School, University College, London, and the Middlesex Hospital, where he won the Murray schola

Born 12 September 1878 at St Charles Square, London, W, the second son of Thomas Kelly, colonel in the Egyptian Army, and Catherine Fitzmaurice, his wife. His elder brother, James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (1857-1923), was Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of London, 1916-20 (se