Born on 18 March 1878 at Streatham Hill, London, the only son of John Taylor, wine merchant of Dean Street, Tooley Street, London Bridge and Alice Miller Gordon daughter of William Gordon, stockbroker of Union Street, Aberdeen; he and his sister were taken by their mother to Aberdeen when their fath

Younger son of the Rev R C Heslop, of Wakefield, Yorkshire; born on March 5th, 1880, and educated at St Thomas's Hospital and Durham University. He served as House Surgeon at the Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury, at the Durham County Hospital, and as Clinical Assistant at All Saints' Hospital for Genito-

Born at Salisbury and was educated at University College and Hospital, London. He served as House Surgeon at the Liverpool Northern Hospital from 1875-1877, and in 1878 began to practise at Eastbourne as Assistant to Robert Colgate (qv), whose daughter, Mary, he married in 1881. He succeeded his fat

Studied at the University of Liverpool, and in 1903 was House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary. During 1904 and 1905 he was Gee Fellow, Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy, Holt Fellow and Demonstrator of Pathology. In 1905 he joined the Indian Medical Service and was appointed to the 51st Sikhs in the Fr

Frederick Curtis was born in 1873, the son of Albert Curtis MRCS 1857, a general practitioner at Staines, Middlesex, and grandson of Frederick Curtis MRCS 1832, who had practised there previously. He was brought up a Quaker and educated at Bootham, York. His family had a long tradition in medicine f

Born 14 September 1862, the fourth child and third son of D Brown, of Harrow Park, and his wife Anna Maria Charlotte Wright. He was educated at Harrow and at University College Hospital, where he was Filliter exhibitioner and Atchison scholar. He was a contemporary and life-long friend of John Rose

Born at Dalry, Ayrshire on 25 March 1872, the fifth son and ninth youngest child of Andrew Blair Aitken and his wife Jane Young. He was educated at the Ayrshire Academy, Ayr, and at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1893. After holding resident appointments at Oldham Infirmary and the Wirral

Born 13 September 1854 at Hull, Yorkshire, the sixth child and third son of William Joseph Lunn, FRCS by election, and Mary Heath Craven his wife. His grandfather, William Lunn, was also elected a Fellow. There we thus three generations elected into the Fellowship, a unique distinction. He was ed

Born at Simla, 6 June 1879, son of Colonel J Goldie. He was educated at Charterhouse 1892-96 and then passed into Sandhurst, as it was intended that he should enter the army. Disqualified on account of defective vision, he went to St Mary's Hospital where he served as house surgeon and house physici

Born at Kirriemuir, Angus, on 5 November 1882, the third child and second son of David Wilkie, manufacturer, and Margaret Forrest Mill, his wife. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Royal Infirmary, and University, where he gained the gold medal at the ChM examination in 1909. At the Royal Infirma

Educated at Edinburgh University he qualified in 1905, and took the English Conjoint diplomas in 1908. He went then to New Zealand, but returned and took the Fellowship at the end of 1910. He practised in South London, and joined the RAMC in August 1914 when war broke out. He was promoted captain on

Born 10 March 1881 at Hinckley, Leicestershire, the second child and only son of Edward Simpson, a schoolmaster, and Charlotte McCann, his wife. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar, and took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos,