Practised as a surgeon at 72 Guilford Street, London, WC, where he was Surgeon to the German Hospital and at one time President of the Hunterian Society. He has a place among the early operators upon ovarian cysts in this country, as described by him in the *London Medical Gazette* (1842-3, xxxi,

Born in Dublin on 23 October 1865, the fourth child and second son of Commissary Major-General Latham Blacker, a member of the Co Tyrone landed and military family, and Harriette Demaine Bagot-Smith, his wife. He was educated at Cheltenham College and University College, London, where he won an exhi

Born at Islandmagee, Co Antrim, he was educated at the Methodist College and Queen's College, Belfast, then still a constituent of the Royal University of Ireland, graduated in 1907 and served as demonstrator in anatomy. He served in France during the 1914-18 war as a surgical specialist with the

Born 11 July 1884 at Darwen, Lancashire, the only child of John Alfred Richardson, one of HM Inspectors of Schools, and Mary Ann Whitaker, his wife. He was a King's Scholar, 1897, of Durham School, and graduated at Cambridge in 1907. He received his medical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he

He was born in London on 29 August 1896 son of Henry John Jeaffreson, insurance broker, and his wife née Gregory. The Jeaffresons came from Framlingham, Suffolk, and there had been several well-known surgeons in the family; William Jeaffreson FRCS (1844) performed the first successful ovariotomy in

Born 16 October 1865, eldest son of G A Berkeley of Belgrave Road, London, SW, a wine importer, and his wife Sarah Louisa, second daughter of Thomas Moore of The Wergs, Wolverhampton. His father was related to the family of Berkeley, Earls of Berkeley. Comyns Berkeley was educated at Marlborough and

Born at 45 Hope Park Crescent, Edinburgh on 14 July 1867, son of James McCann, mantle-maker of Cockburn Street, and Elspeth Bell, his wife. He was educated at George Watson's College and at Edinburgh University, qualifying in 1888 and acting for a time as demonstrator of anatomy. He later studied in

Born on 26 October 1871, son of Robert Hicks MRCS 1857, who practised at Ramsgate, Kent, he took his medical training at Guy's Hospital, where he served as house physician. He was resident surgical officer and surgeon to out-patients at the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children and assistant surgeon at

Born 3 August 1863 at Goos Vladimir, Russia, the sixth child and fifth son of William Edge, engineer, and his wife, née Pollitt. He was educated at Bolton Grammar School and at Owens College, Manchester. He then proceeded to St Thomas's Hospital and afterwards took postgraduate courses at Munich and

Born at Fairfield Road, Bristol, on 1 October 1865, the eldest child of David Rayner, wholesale textile merchant, and his wife, Edith Fryer. He was educated at Observatory House School, Bristol, under Dr Cooper, and at the Bristol Medical School. After working in the physiological laboratories, he d

Doris Barbara Wallace (née Brown) was the daughter of Mr David G Brown, a draper in Harrogate. She went to school in Harrogate and proceeded to the University of Leeds where she qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and also graduated MB ChB in 1932. In her preliminary science course she obtained the

Born in London on 28 April 1865, the eldest child of Henry Smith, colonial broker, and his wife, *née* Machen. A younger brother, Eric Bellingham Smith, became physician to St George's Hospital and FRCP 1924. He was educated at St Paul's School and University College, London, and entered Guy's Hospi