Born on 18 February 1870 son of John Sloane MD Edinburgh, and Sarah Stretton his wife, he was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Senior (1891), Brackenbury (1893), and Lawrence (1894) scholarships and served as house surgeon, senior assistant demonstrator of anatomy, and senior a

Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he served in the Chinese Customs as Port Health Officer at Wenchow. After the first world war he practised for a few years at Binfield, Berkshire, and then for nearly ten years at Dorchester where he was surgeon to the Dorset County Hospital. About 1934 he

Born on 26 August 1900 he received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1923 and held appointments as house surgeon and senior resident, and he was also senior house surgeon at Lincoln County Hospital. He then went to the Radium Institute where in 1931 he became

Born at Faversham, Kent, the son of William Lionel Springford, he was educated at Charing Cross Hospital, qualifying in 1936. After holding resident posts at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, and the Chesterfield and North Derby Royal Hospital, he was surgical registrar at Charing Cross

Born on 24 January 1864 the eldest son of (Sir) Thomas Smith FRCS, who became Assistant Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital a month later and was afterwards Consulting Surgeon and a Governor, was Vice-president of the College in 1887-8 and 1890-91, and was created a Baronet, of Stratford Place, in

Educated at University College Hospital where he was appointed house surgeon, he qualified in 1943 during the second world war and was commissioned in the RAMC. After demobilisation he was surgical casualty officer at the Birmingham General Hospital and resident surgical registrar at the Birmingham

Born in Co Monaghan on 3 December 1892 and educated at St Vincent's College, Castleknock, he received his medical training at St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, the London Hospital, and St Bartholomew's, and graduated MB with honours from University College, Dublin in 1917. He spent the next two years i

Born in Bathurst in 1874 son of W Burton Wade, he was educated at Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney. Qualifying in 1896, he commenced a lifelong association with the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, starting as resident medical officer in 1896, then senior resident medical officer in 1

Born at Rochdale on 29 January 1880 the eldest of the three sons of Thomas Talbot, confectioner, and Amelia Maden his wife; all three brothers became medical men; he was at school at Whalley, Lancashire, and won the junior and senior Platt exhibitions in physiology at Owens College, Manchester. He g

Born on 15 October 1859 at Wakefield, the elder son of Thomas Walker MRCS and Elizabeth Jackson Secker his wife. The Walker family had practised surgery at Wakefield since the early eighteenth century; J W Walker represented the sixth generation since William Walker, surgeon of Wakefield, who died i

Born on 14 September 1880, only son of William Athelstan Blaxland, solicitor to the LCC, he was educated at Westminster School and University College Hospital. After qualifying he held house appointments at UCH, the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and the Royal National Hospital and

Wilfred Bleaden was the son of the Reverend W H Bleaden, Vicar of St Mary's, Paddington. He was educated at St Edmund's School, Oxford (1899-1905) and at Brasenose College (1905-1908). While at the University he gained his blue and was amateur champion of the long jump (1908); he was also included i