Born at Manchester, the fifth son of John George Adami by his wife Sarah Ann Ellis, daughter of Thomas Leech, of Urmston, Lancashire. His uncle, David John Leech (1840-1900), was Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Victoria University, and Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary.

Born at Richmond, Surrey, 4 April 1863, the sixth child and fourth son of Thomas James Carless, contractor, and Jane Cullen Furze, his wife. He was educated at Carrington Lodge, Richmond, at King's College School, London, and at King's College, where he won the senior scholarship in 1885, and at Kin

Born on 4 September 1880 eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Samuel Johnson (1846-99), Medical Officer of Health for Stoke-on-Trent and Julia his wife, daughter of James Webb. Mrs Johnson died only in 1931; her children had all adopted her maiden surname, Webb, before their father's name. Dr

Born 20 January 1875, the fourth child and third son of James Henry Howard, timber merchant, and Maria Dyer Field, his wife. He was educated at King's College School and at the London Hospital, with which he remained closely connected throughout his life. He was a scholar of the Hospital Medical Col

Born on 14 August 1886 at Bedlington, Northumberland, third child and eldest son of James Saint, schoolmaster, and Mary Anne Downie Morris, daughter of Thomas Common Morris, a farmer and butcher. Charles Saint's uncle, his brother and several relations of a third generation entered the medical profe

Born at Auckland, New Zealand, 30 September 1875, the eldest child of Henry Charles Choyce, merchant, and Charlotte Milne, his wife. He was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and University, where he graduated BSc in 1896. He left New Zealand early in 1897 and entered the University of Edinburg

Born at Plymouth, 12 April 1855, eldest son of Colonel Richard Anderson, of the 56th Essex Regiment and afterwards of the KLI, and his wife Eliza Harriet Outerbridge. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and as soon as he had qualified, was appointed resident surgeon on 31

Born in Guernsey on 24 October 1851, the second child and second son of James Mansell Moullin, MRCS, who was then surgeon to St Mary de Castro Hospital in the Island, and his wife Matilda Emily Grigg of Newbury, Berks. His father moved afterwards to 80 Porchester Terrace, London, W2, and practised t

Born in Hertfordshire in 1862 the son of George Swain, he was educated at Westminster Hospital Medical School, which he entered with a scholarship in 1879. He won the Chadwick and other prizes, and held the usual resident appointments. He went to Bristol as house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, and

Born on 10 September 1869, he was educated at Cheltenham College and Durham University. He graduated MB BS in 1891 and afterwards held a series of resident appointments in Newcastle. He was a demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer in surgical anatomy in the old University of Durham Medical College. In

He was born on 10 September 1874, son of John Barton Arundel Acland, Member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand and a barrister, and Emily Weddell Harper his wife, who was a daughter of the first Bishop of Christchurch, Primate of New Zealand. J B A Acland was the sixth son of Sir Thomas Dyke

Henry Simpson Newland was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 24 November 1873. He was of the third generation of a pioneer family that settled on the south coast of South Australia in 1839. He was educated at St Mary's College and the University of Adelaide, graduating MB BS in 1896. He then came