Born 12 January 1862 at Westport, Connecticut, the eldest son of Horace Bradley Coley, farmer, and Clarine Bradley Wakeman, his wife. He was educated at Westport School, at Yale University (1880) and at the Harvard Medical School (1886-88). He acted as instructor in surgery at the New York Postgradu

Born at Cole Henley Manor, Whitchurch on the Test, Hants, the village where banknote paper is manufactured. He was the second son of Joseph Latham Bailey, gentleman farmer, and his wife Martha Palmer of Lambourn, Kent. Educated at Cranford College, Maidenhead, he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in

This Fellow practised in Colombo and Madras. His last known address was 6 Infantry Road, Bangalore, Southern India.

Received his professional education at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals. At the time of his death he was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London, a member of the Royal College of Chemistry, and of the Epidemiological, London Meteorological, and Norfolk and West Suffolk Archaeological Societies,

Born on 1 October 1894 at Bishopstoke, Hampshire, son of Dr Henry James Bailey MB, MS (Edin). He was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate and then entered the London Hospital Medical College. His studies were interrupted by the first world war and whilst serving as a dresser with the first Belg

Gordon Nuttall Bailey was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, on 9 November 1905 the son of William Cooper Bailey, a company director and his wife, Esther, née Lomax. He was educated at Grosvenor House, Harrogate, Uppingham School, Clare College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital. He obtained MB

Leonard Bailey was an industrial chemist and managing director of Ethicon, who used his scientific knowledge and impressive managerial skills not only to succeed in his own career, but also to help others. He was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, on 8 August 1910, the son of a deputy chief inspector

Bruce Bailey was an innovative plastic surgeon at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, on 29 February 1928, where his father, John Bailey, was national secretary of the Cooperative party. His mother was Anne née Glaser, the daughter of a tailor. He was educated at Bradford

Sir Randal Elliott was an eminent New Zealand eye surgeon. He was the youngest member of a distinguished medical family. Born in Wellington, New Zealand, he was the son of Sir James Sands Elliott, a prominent GP-surgeon who edited the *New Zealand Medical Journal* for over 20 years, and Annie Allan

John Missen was a consultant surgeon at Hackney Hospital and an assistant coroner in north London. He was born in Wigan on 25 August 1926. Almost immediately the family moved to Suffolk when his father, Leslie Robert Missen, was appointed chief education officer for East Suffolk. John’s mother, Muri

Alison George Selborne Bailey, known as 'Joe', was larger than life. He was born on 19 July 1915, the son of George Frederick Selborne Bailey, a general practitioner and Mabel Yardley Guard, a midwife. He was educated at Radley, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he spent much of his t

Lance Bromley was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, London. He was born on 16 February 1920 to Lancelot Bromley, a surgeon at Guy's Hospital, and Dora Ridgway Bromley née Lee of Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Educated at St Paul's School, Lance Bromley obtained his 1st MB examination