Born on 13 August 1857 at 4 Stockwell Park Road, Brixton, the only child of Frederick Walters and his wife, *née* Rufenacht. His father and grandfather were silk-weavers, members of the Weavers Company and freemen of the City of London. His father in 1870 bought a surgical instrument business, in wh

Henry Nightingale was born in Kingston on Thames on 21 April 1880. His father, James, was a surveyor and his mother before marriage was Agnes Thrupp. He went to school at Kingston Grammar School from where he obtained a scholarship to King's College, London. Nightingale next gained a scholarship

Born on 13 July 1867 at Thorner near Leeds, the third son and fourth child of Edward Walker Shaw, civil engineer, and Helen Hudson, his wife. The family moved to Australia and Batty Shaw received his early education at King's School, Balmain, New South Wales. Returning to England he studied at the Y

Roland Maitland Alderton was born on 20 June 1902 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, son of David Simpson, a miller and corn merchant, and Margaret McLachlan, daughter of a clergyman. He was educated at Tonbridge School and the London Hospital, qualifying MRCS LRCP in 1930 and MB BS in 1931. After working as

Born on July 10th, 1847, the son of James Neatby Warner; was educated at home until at the age of 20 in 1867 he won a junior scholarship at King's College, London. At the first MB University of London Examination he gained 1st class honours in chemistry and materia medica, in the second MB 1st class

Born in London on January 30th, 1869, the son of Francis Wilson Lister and Elizabeth Wishart, only daughter of David Roy, of Glasgow. He was educated at the Haberdashers' Company's School, and received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon in 1893-1894. He was Regis

Born in London, 5 June 1862, the only child of John Carr, JP, chemist, and M A Bowers, his wife. He was educated at University College School and Hospital, winning an exhibition and gold medal in materia medica and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of London intermediate examination. He 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

The eldest son of George Soltau, a nonconformist minister of Plymouth, and of his wife Grace Elizabeth Tapson, he was born at Myddleton Square, London, WC, on 21 March 1876. His father, who had been governor of Dr Barnado's Home in London, took charge of a mission church in Tasmania, and his son was

Born at Gloucester on 28 March 1862, sixth son of the eight sons and one daughter of Leonard Hadley, flour miller, and Elizabeth Bretherton, his wife. He was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, Newcastle-on-Tyne Medical School, Göttingen University and the London Hospital, which he entered in Octo

Hugh Baron was a consultant physician-gastroenterologist at St Mary's and Hammersmith hospitals, London. Of all his qualities, the foremost was his love of scholarship. He hungered for knowledge in all his many areas of interest, and from his research and ideas he added to most of them. He described

Lord Robert Kilpatrick was dean and professor of medicine at the University of Leicester Medical School, and a former president of the General Medical Council (GMC) and the British Medical Association (BMA). He was born in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland, the only child of Robert Kilpatrick, a mine worker. A