John Arkle was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 28 July 1890 and was educated at St George's Private School at Gosforth. Subsequently he went to Edinburgh with a view to becoming an actuary, but after 12 months left Edinburgh to study medicine at Durham University. Arkle was a brilliant student and

Born at Dalry, Ayrshire on 25 March 1872, the fifth son and ninth youngest child of Andrew Blair Aitken and his wife Jane Young. He was educated at the Ayrshire Academy, Ayr, and at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1893. After holding resident appointments at Oldham Infirmary and the Wirral

Born at Derby on 4 July 1874 the son of Charles Augustus Greaves, MB, LLB London, who was afterwards physician to the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary. He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he acted as house surgeon in 1898, after which he was appointed assistant house surgeon, house surgeon in 1

Born at Bath on 3 August 1869, the only son of Cyril J Wood, journalist, and his wife, *née* Candy. Educated at Bath and at the University of Bristol, his main interests were devoted at first to pathology but, influenced by F Richardson Cross, he soon turned to ophthalmology. He was appointed surgeo

Elder son of David Bridge Lees, MD, Physician to St Mary's Hospital, London, was a scholar of St Paul's School, and was admitted with an exhibition to King's College, Cambridge, where he was also a prizeman, on Oct 2nd, 1900, and graduated BA in 1903 after obtaining a 1st class in Part I of the Natu

Born on 17 February 1888, son of Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Cooke Alton CB, CMG, RN, he was educated at Bedford School. After qualifying from St Thomas's Hospital in 1910, he entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon. Four years later he graduated MB BS at London University. During the first world

Born at Dewsbury, Yorkshire, the second child and second son of Benjamin Hepworth, woollen manufacturer, and his wife, *née* Haley. He was educated at the Wheelwright Grammar School, Dewsbury, and won a scholarship at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sci

Born at Aberdeen, 16 May 1886, eldest son of George Anderson, a landed proprietor and farmer, and his wife, *née* Morison. He was educated at Fordyce Academy, Banffshire, and at Aberdeen University, which he entered in 1904, and won gold medals both in medicine and surgery at his graduation in 1909.

Son of James Walter Everidge, he was educated at King's College School and King's College Hospital, where he was junior scholar in 1904, senior scholar in 1907 and Alfred Hughes anatomy prizeman. He qualified in 1908, and in 1912 became Sambrooke surgical registrar and surgical tutor at King's Colle

Born at Dartmouth on 6 July 1871 fifth child and second son of Hunter Gaskell JPO and his wife née Stempkowska, he was educated at Tavistock and at University College Hospital, and was commissioned in the Royal Naval Medical Service in 1893 and posted to the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham. He was in

Born 7 February 1861, the eldest son of the Hon William Napier of MacMac, Lydenburg, South Africa, and his wife Louisa Mary, youngest daughter of John Horatio Lloyd, QC. His grandfather was William, 9th Lord Napier and Ettrick. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he served as

Born at Kobe, Japan on 25 September 1875, the elder son of John Kirkaldy Cunningham, a merchant, and Florence Heaslop, his wife. His father retired from business and settled at Axminster in 1887, and sent his son to Sherborne School. He entered at Michaelmas term 1889 and left in 1894, having been c