Graham Bryce was born in Southport, Lancashire, the son of Elizabeth Dodds and Alexander Graham Bryce who was the managing director of a calico printing firm. He went to school at the Southport Modern School for Boys until the age of 11 when he proceeded to complete his secondary education at the Bi

Reginald Theobald Payne was born at Northampton on 15 March 1896. When he was aged 65 he published a remarkable book *The watershed* in which he gave a vivid picture of his childhood and schooldays. He was the eldest of four brothers, and as his father, who had a furniture business in the town, brou

Clifford Naunton Morgan was born at Penygraig, Glamorgan, on 20 December 1901, and was educated at the Royal Masonic School, Bushey, before entering University College Cardiff and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. After qualifying in 1923 and graduating the following year he held resident a

There was always something of a military bearing about Alan Stammers. Handsome, upright, level-headed, he had an able and generous mind and was always to be counted on to do the right thing by his patients, his medical students, young aspiring surgeons and his colleagues. It was characteristic that

Born 5 April 1897, the second son of Edward Walker, MBE, MD (Edin) who was consulting physician to the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Arnold Learoyd Walker was always proud of his Yorkshire origins. He went to Oundle School before going up to Cambridge. The first world war intervened and he served in

The following was published in volume 5 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Charles Felix Harris was born in New York on 30 March 1900. He spent his childhood in Australia, but completed his education at Epsom College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma and the London

Born in London on 12 May 1898 the son of Marriott Edwin Nicholls he was educated at the City of London School, Clare College, Cambridge and St George's Hospital, London. His undergraduate studies were interrupted by the first world war, during which he enlisted with the Royal Fusiliers at the age of