Born on 12 April 1872, he received his medical education at Guy's Hospital, qualifying in 1895 and winning the University Gold Medal and Exhibition in the MB. Subsequently he became house surgeon to Arbuthnot Lane, and later a demonstrator of anatomy, gaining the Astley Cooper Prize in 1904. For a t

Born on 14 November 1892, he was educated at Blundell's School and Bristol University. He interrupted his medical education when war broke out in 1914 to join the Gloucestershire Regiment as a combatant officer. He resumed his medical studies in 1917 and qualified the following year with the Conjoin

Born in 1888 the son of Charles Jackson LRCP Ed of King's Lynn, he was educated at Haileybury and at St Mary's Hospital. After qualification he held house appointments at St Mary's Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton. In the war of 1914-18 he served in France with the RAMC

Educated at the Middlesex Hospital, he practised in London, with consulting rooms at 54 Harley Street. He died on 20 July 1958.

Born on 22 June 1888, son of Dr Arthur John Jefferson of Rochdale and younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University, where he shared the Dumville surgical prize with J S B Stopford. Qualifying in 1911 with the conjoint diploma and t

Born at Westcombe Park, Blackheath on 9 June 1883, the only son of A G Mackenzie, FIA, and Beatrice E Dell, his wife. He was educated at Eastbourne College, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated after obtaining a third class in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I, and at the Middlesex H

Born at Tiverton, Devon in 1849, son of Frederick Mackenzie, MRCS 1838, coroner to the borough of Tiverton. He was educated at Blundell's School, then still housed in the town of Tiverton but now outside it, and came to the London Hospital for his medical training. He served the Hospital as resident

Ben Eiseman was professor of surgery and medicine at the University of Colorado. He was born on 2 November 1917 in St Louis, Missouri, and was educated at John Burroughs School, St Louis, Yale University and Harvard Medical School. After gaining his MD in 1943, he was an intern at Massachusetts Gene

John William Gummer, known as 'Peter', was a gastrointestinal surgeon at the Central Middlesex Hospital in London. He was born on 29 December 1918 and studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1941. Prior to his appointment as a consultant, he was a house surgeon at

Brian Haggart was a consultant general surgeon at Walton and Fazakerley hospitals in Liverpool. He was born in Walton, Liverpool, on 6 May 1928, the eldest of three children. He had two younger, twin sisters, Shirley and Pauline. They were from a modest background; their father worked for Reece's Da

Revanappa Tirkappa Kulkarni was a surgeon in Gadag-Betageri, Karnataka, India. He was born in Savanur, in Dharwar district, Mysore State, on 6 March 1937, one of 14 children of Tirkappa Ningappa Kulkarni, the town clerk and a landlord, and Nilgangawa Kulkarni née Godhi. Only six children survived in

Born 7 September 1877, third son of the Rev W Morgan Jones, Rector of Marks Tey, Essex, and Emma Gray, his wife. He was educated at St Paul's School, as a capitation scholar 1889-90 and a foundationer 1890-95, and at St George's Hospital, where he won an entrance scholarship in 1895 and was subseque