Born at Walsall on 18 July 1883 the eldest child and only son of George Mills, ironmaster, afterwards of Great Barr, Staffordshire, and his wife M E Kettlewell of Howden, whose daughter married Seymour Barling FRCS, he was educated at Harrow and at the Birmingham medical school, but graduated with h

Born 7 February 1882 at Cawsand, Cornwall, the second child and eldest son of William Henry Trethowan, grocer, and his wife, *née* Hutchings. He was educated at Devonport High School and at the Plymouth Technical College. He entered Guy's Hospital in 1901, after gaining the junior entrance scholarsh

Born on 14 August 1882 son of A Green-Armytage of Clifton and York, he was educated at Clifton College, at Bristol University and the Royal Infirmary, and in Paris. He was Montefiore surgical medallist at the RAMC College, was commissioned Lieutenant IMS in 1907, promoted Captain in 1910, Major in 1

Henry Nightingale was born in Kingston on Thames on 21 April 1880. His father, James, was a surveyor and his mother before marriage was Agnes Thrupp. He went to school at Kingston Grammar School from where he obtained a scholarship to King's College, London. Nightingale next gained a scholarship

Born at Springtown, Co Down, on 23 August 1878, youngest of the eleven children of Thomas M. Greeves whose family, at first Quakers and later Plymouth Brethren, had been settled in Northern Ireland since the mid-seventeenth century. Affleck Greeves was educated at Queen's University, Belfast, where

Born in London 20 September 1880, son of James Valentine Austin (1850-1914), a county court judge, and Anna Christina Lorimer, his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he was placed in the first class in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos 1902 an

Born on 6 October 1881 the eleventh child of the Rev Alfred James, Rector of Burwarton, Salop, and his wife Lucy Woodward and grandson of William James who was MP for Carlisle for nearly thirty years and served as High Sheriff for Cumberland, James was educated at Winchester College and St George's

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

Born on 8 June 1882, the son of a solicitor, he was educated at Bradfield College and Guy's Hospital Medical School, which he entered in 1900, and graduated in 1906 with honours. After holding the usual house appointments he was surgical registrar at Guy's in 1908, and then decided to specialise in

Born in Hampstead on 6 June 1882 the son of William James Walker, he was educated at the Leys School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1904. He had his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was assistant editor of the

Born on 26 September 1879, the youngest (fifth) child and only son of James Bankart, FRCS (1862) of Southernhay, Exeter, and Gertrude Moss, his wife. Hew as educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos 1901. He took his cl

Albert Clifford Morson was born in 1881 and educated at Haileybury College, subsequently going to Paris to study. He received his medical training at the Middlesex Hospital, London, qualifying in 1906, and becoming FRCS in 1912. His student career was distinguished both academically and in athletics