Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

Archibald ‘Archie’ Louden Rennie was secretary of the Scottish Home and Health Department. He was born on 4 June 1924 in Guardbridge, Fife, the son of John Rennie, a railway signalman, and Isabella Mitchell Rennie née Louden. He attended Madras College in St Andrews and then studied physics at St An

As regional medical officer for Oxford Regional Health Authority Rosemary Rue pioneered part-time specialist medical training for women doctors. She was born in Essex on 14 June 1928, the daughter of Harry and Daisy Laurence. The family moved to London when she was five, and during the Blitz she was

Gerard Longworth-Krafft was a medical officer at the Department of Health and Social Security. He was born in Manchester on 13 March 1913. His father, Gerardus Krafft, was a business man from Dordrecht, Holland. His mother was Sarah née Longworth. From Manchester Grammar School he won the Adams scho

Richard Harold Herniman was born in Chichester on 12 January 1934. He trained at Christ's College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital and besides the FRCS and MRCOG he later obtained a postgraduate degree in public health at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as Medical Attaché