Born at Exmouth on 30 April 1891, the second child and only son of Surgeon Major A J Wharry, of the Egyptian Army, and Lillie Adeline Barker, his wife. He was educated at Radley and matriculated from New College, Oxford in 1910, but took no degree in the University. He received his medical education

Born at Prestwich, son of J E Howarth and twin brother of (Sir) Edgar Goldie Howarth KBE, CB, he was educated at Shrewsbury, King's College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. After house appointments, when he was house surgeon to Sir George Makins and W H Battle, he spent considerable time in post

Born 14 December 1861, second son of Thomas Lake of Cheekes Court, Sittingbourne, Kent, farmer, and Mary Wildash, his wife. He was educated at Trent College, at Bonn in Germany, and at Thomas's Hospital. Immediately after he had qualified in 1885 he went under the National Aid Society, the forerunne

Born 3 September 1896 only child of Matthew Henry Hall, a professor of music, and Sarah Parry his wife, she was educated at Aigburth Vale High School, Liverpool, and the University of Liverpool, where she was Holt Fellow in physiology for 1919-1920. She took postgraduate courses at St Mary's Hospita

Educated at the University of Cairo and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he practised as an ear nose and throat surgeon in Cairo. He was distinguished in his specialty, and well-known to his European colleagues through his membership of the International Collegium Otolaryngologicum. He had intended to

Michael ('Mike') Carruthers was a consultant ENT surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital and Lambeth Hospital, London. He had a great sense of humour, a profound sense of the ridiculous, and as a practical person was happiest when operating and being with his extensive family. He was born on 31 July 1919

Born on 10 April 1887 son of W Watkyn-Thomas of Papcastle, Cumberland, he was educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was an exhibitioner and Bean W Levy student. For his clinical studies he went to St Bartholomew's Hospital and was awarded the Brackenbury and Holden sch

Born on 7 July 1887 at Thames, North Island, New Zealand the son of John Watson and his wife Mary Pascoe, he was at school at Thames and at Wellington and then entered the civil service. Soon however he came to the medical school at Edinburgh, and qualified in 1911. During the first world war he ser

Born in London in 1875 the son of Richard Barwell FRCS, surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, and Mary Diana Shuttleworth his wife, he was educated at Temple Grove and Westminster School, where he was Bishop Williams exhibitioner, and at St George's, where he held resident posts. Deciding to specialise

Born 8 August 1868, the eldest child of Peter O'Malley, farmer, of Kilmilkin, Maam, Co Galway, and his wife Mary O'Malley, born in the same clan as her husband. Three other sons of Peter O'Malley also achieved distinction in medicine. He was educated at Galway Grammar School, at Queen's College (now

Born 21 May 1891, the only child of Robert Robertson (1864-1925), of the Indian Medical Service, and his wife Flora Mackinnon. His father was ultimately a lieutenant-colonel, IMS, and senior physician to the Madras General Hospital (Crawford's *Roll of the IMS*, Madras list, No 1500). Robertson was

Born 27 July 1890 at Tientsin, North China, the eldest child of David Price Evans, a missionary, and Sarah Wilson, his wife. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Birmingham University, graduating in medicine in 1913. He served in the RAMC during the first world war, and was promo