Born in Acton Place, Kingsland Road, NE, in December, 1825, and, as he has set on record in his *Autobiography*, "two months before I was due." His father was Lieut-Colonel John Castle Gant, of the King's Own 2nd Light Infantry. Young Gant, an only child, was puny and weakly, and as a little boy was

Somewhat above middle height, clean-shaven with prematurely white hair and of ascetic appearance, Cecil Beadles was unmarried and lived for his garden and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was so excessively shy that he was rarely seen even by his colleagues unless they went

Born at Carmarthen in 1871, he was educated there and at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was Llewellyn scholar. He qualified in 1898, served as house physician and house surgeon at Charing Cross, and was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school. After postgraduate study in Vienna he

Born in London on 19 January 1869, the second child and elder son of James Sydney Walton, a gentleman with private means, and Eleanor Georgina Louissan, his wife. He was educated in Paris for some time, then at private schools, and finally at Charterhouse, 1881-84. He received his medical education

Born on 1 March 1888, the son of W G Warwick, of Hatfield, Yorkshire, he was educated at Doncaster Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was a sizar in I906. He won his "blue" in the university athletic team in 1907, and was placed as a junior optime in part I of the Mathematical

John James Barclay Hobbs was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1949, graduating with the London MB, BS, the same year. After holding the post of orthopaedic and casualty house surgeon at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital he did his nation

David Dawson was a consultant surgeon at Plymouth Hospital. He was born on 21 July 1921 in Pinner, Middlesex. His father was John Alexander Dawson CBE, a civil engineer. His mother, Margaret Cruikshank, was the daughter of a medical practitioner. David was their third child and second son. His elder

Born at Bristol 19 February 1875, the ninth child and sixth son of the Rev John Mackie, Rector of Fylton, Glos, and Annis Bennett his second wife. John Mackie was twice married; there were five sons and two daughters of the first marriage, and one daughter and three sons of the second. He was educat

The son of Captain Pincke Lee, of Woolley Firs, Maidenhead Thicket. He entered King's College, London, as a student in 1833, but transferred to St George's Hospital in 1834, where he became one of the first, if not the first, Surgical Registrar, and later Curator of the Museum and Lecturer in Physio

Born at Gloucester in 1863, son of William Washbourn, a descendant of Sir Roger Washbourn, of Knight's Washbourn (*temp* 1370), went to King's College, Gloucester, then studied at Guy's Hospital, winning the Entrance Scholarship in 1881 and greatly distinguishing himself as well by taking prizes at

Born at Stansted, Essex, on May 27th, 1839; studied at the London Hospital, where in 1860 he won a Gold Medal. Entered the Army Medical Service on April 1st, 1861, as Assistant Surgeon on the Staff; was attached to the 22nd Foot in 1863; was promoted Surgeon Major on March 19th, 1876; Brigade Surgeo

Hyla Bristow Stallard, always known as Henry to his many friends, was born in Leeds on 28 April 1901. He went to a preparatory school in Cheltenham and then to Sherborne where in addition to success at his work he also began to show the athletic prowess which so distinguished his later career at Cam