Guy Blackburn was born on 20 November 1911 in Harrogate, the eldest son of Dr A E Blackburn, a general practitioner, who later moved to Beckenham, Kent. Guy was educated at Rugby (without great exposure to the game!), Clare College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Medical College. At Clare he took u

Born in London, 28 May 1878, third child and second son of Paul Balme, surveyor, and his wife née Kirkness, he was educated at Cooper's Grammar School and King's College, London, where he was Worsley scholar 1898, and won the Warneford, Leathes, and Todd prizes in medicine and the Berry Prize in div

Born in London, Dec 18th, 1842, and educated at the City of London School. Studied for a time at Aberdeen and afterwards at the Lambeth School of Art, where he won a medal for artistic anatomy. Entered St Thomas's Hospital in 1864, when Sir John Simon (qv) and Le Gros Clark (qv) were surgeons. There

The son of Henry Swan, Surgeon to the County Hospital at Lincoln, where his ancestors had been doctors for several generations. He was apprenticed to his father, and was sent to the United Borough Hospitals in 1810. He became a pupil of Henry Cline the younger, and gained the warm friendship of Astl

Born at Stamford Hill on Jan 10th, 1797, the second son of William Morgan, the noted Actuary to the Equitable Life Assurance Office and a native of Glamorganshire, where the family had been landowners for centuries. His father began life as a medical student and is said to have come from Glamorgansh

Born at Exeter on Dec. 12th, 1799, the third son of James Luke, merchant and banker, by his wife, who had been a Miss Ponsford, of Drewsteignton. He entered Blundell's School at Tiverton in 1813 and remained there until 1816, when, on the death of his father, he came to London and was articled to Jo

Born in Gloucester Terrace on June 1st, 1847, the only child of Benjamin Clark. His parents died when he was young and he was brought up by his grandfather, Andrew Clark, of Greenford Place, near Harrow. He was educated at Brighton College and afterwards at University College School. He entered the

The second son of Dr Marston Buszard, of Lutterworth, who there enjoyed a large practice and was himself the son of a medical man. Frank Buszard entered Rugby School on April 1st, 1854, and received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, where his career was brilliant. It was probably owing to

Born at Dukafalu, an ancient manor in the county of Saros, North-West Hungary, on June 22nd, 1825, and came of an old and notable family of nobles. He received his early education at the Lutheran College at Eperjes. His father was Francis de Duka, a country squire, his mother Johanna, daughter of Fr

Theodor Kocher, a native of Berne, is remarkable in having remained in his native place throughout his life. Born in 1841, he graduated at the University of Berne in 1865 and studied further in Vienna and in Berlin, and he also visited London and Paris. Following G A Luecke he was appointed Professo

Born on April 18th, 1861, the second son of Charles F Littlewood, of Hempstead Hall, Norfolk. He was educated at Norwich and at University College, London, where he gained the Atkinson-Morley Scholarship in Surgery in 1884, and was House Physician and House Surgeon at the Hospital and Assistant Demo

Leslie Le Quesne was professor of surgery at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born in Ashburton, Devon, on 24 August 1919. His father, Charles Thomas Le Quesne, was a prominent barrister, originally from Jersey; his mother, Florence Elizabeth Eileen Pearce Gould, was the granddaughter of Sir A