Educated at King's College, London, of which he was an Associate. He entered the Indian Medical Service, and was at one time Professor of Anatomy at the Medical College, Calcutta, and Surgeon to the Medical College Hospital. He retired with the rank of Deputy Surgeon General, and practised at 32 Bas

The son of William Parker, Medical Officer of Health for the Aston Union, who practised in Aston Road, Birmingham, where he was born. He was educated at Heathfield Road School, Handsworth, under the Rev Daniel Walton, and afterwards attended the medical and surgical practice of the Birmingham Genera

Born 24 August 1856 at 4 Friar Street, Reading, the son of James Haslam, a land and estate agent and auctioneer, and Catherine Clarke his wife. He was educated at Amersham Hall School, Caversham, and at Marlborough Grammar School, and was early apprenticed to a surgeon on the staff of the Royal Berk

Born 14 June 1867 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the second son and third child of Henry Parker, manager of the Elswick lead works, Newcastle, and Mary Phillips, his wife. On 5 October 1908 he took the extra name of Dodds, and after that date was known as Dodds-Parker. He was educated privately until he en

Born in 1849 at Riverina, New South Wales, son of Sydney Grandison Watson, RN, pastoralist on the Upper Murray. He was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, where he won the scripture prizes and was noted as an athlete. He was destined for the Church, but after a visit to the Pacific islands, w

Born 11 October 1882, the third child and only son of Samuel Buckley, FRCS, consulting physician to the Clinical (now the Northern) Hospital for Diseases of Women and Children, Manchester, and his wife, Florence Woolley. He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, and took first-class h

Born at Kilmainham, Dublin, in August 1842, a nephew on his mother's side of Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator, who was at the time a prisoner in Kilmainham gaol. He was educated at Queen's College, Galway; at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; in Paris and Vienna. He received a commission as a

Banerji was born on 23 March 1880 at Rawalpindi where his father was Head of the American Presbyterian Mission School. He joined the Calcutta Medical School in 1897 and qualified from there in 1904. After serving many appointments in Calcutta Banerji went to England and obtained his English Fello

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

Of those serving the needs of Malta and its population after the Second World War, the name of Victor Griffiths stands out as a most remarkable man. A gifted general surgeon, he had a very wide repertoire, including thoracic surgery. He served Malta as professor of surgery and of anatomy over many y

Samuel Anderson Vincent, the younger son of James Vincent, a musician, was born on 13 June 1909 in Belfast. He was educated at Roseland Preparatory School and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution before entering Queen's University. After resident appointments at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Rea

Vrasapillai Gabriel was born on 18 December 1885 in the town of Mannar in Northern Ceylon. He came from a well known Northern family who were the hereditary administrators in the day of the British Raj. His father was Mudaliyar V Varsapillai JP, UPM, Adigar of Musale. He was born into a family of tw