Peter Brooman was a consultant urological surgeon at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport. He was born in London, the son of Edward Brooman, a wholesale newsagent, and Irene Brooman née Ward. He was educated at Purley Grammar School and then studied medicine at Sheffield University. He held an orthop

Born 5 February 1885, fourth child and third son of Denis Joseph Loughnane, collector of customs and excise, he was educated at Clapham College, King's College, London, and St Thomas's Hospital, where he won the entrance and Peacock scholarships and the Treasurer's gold medal. He was casualty office

Born in 1885 son of Thomas Henry Attwater, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, he was educated at Merchant Taylors School and won an exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1906. His father had been a scholar of Pembroke. He qua

Born on 18 November 1903, he received his medical education at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1929. In 1932 he proceeded to the degree of MD being awarded the Raymond Horton-Smith Prize for his thesis and in 1933 he was admitted a

James Firth Heslop was born in South Shields and studied medicine at Manchester University, where he graduated with honours in 1933. As a house surgeon he came under the influence of John Morley and took the FRCS in 1936, becoming in turn registrar to the surgical outpatients department, resident ca

Born 13 April 1850 in Manchester, the elder son of Henry Browne, MD (1819-1901), physician to Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Ann, his wife daughter of George Hadfield, MP for Sheffield. Henry Browne's father and grandfather had practised at Manchester since the latter, George Buckston Browne (1756-

Born in Dublin on 15 October 1912, son of a well-known naval architect, he was educated at St Peter's School, York, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Mary's Hospital, London. He was senior surgical registrar at St Paul's Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases, supernumerary surgical registrar and

Bruce Clarkson Rennie was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1904, and educated at the Waitaki Boys' High School and the University of Otago Medical School where he graduated in 1925. He was appointed house surgeon and resident surgical officer at the Wanganui Hospital, and subsequently came to En

Born at Brooklands, Blackheath Park, SE on 30 March 1878, the second child of the marriage of Joseph Kidd, MD, with Frances Rouse, his second wife. His father, the seventeenth of a family of eighteen, was a well-known homoeopathic physician in London; a brother by a previous marriage was Percy Kidd,

Ian Langdale Gregory qualified MB ChB from Manchester University in 1943 and passed the Conjoint Diploma the same year. He worked as supernumerary chief assistant at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and then became surgical registrar to the Withington Hospital, Manchester. He moved to London and was a

Born in 1886 at Exeter and educated at King's School, Canterbury and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he qualified in 1909. He was house surgeon at the Great North Central Hospital and house physician at Mount Vernon Hospital for consumption. After a period as assistant pathologist at the Royal Sussex

Terence Millin, internationally famous for the introduction of the operation of retropubic prostatectomy, was born in Helen's Bay, County Down, on 9 January 1903. He was educated at St Andrew's College and Trinity College, Dublin, gaining a Kidd Entrance Exhibition in 1921. As an undergraduate he wa