Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 16 March 1881, the eldest child of Henry Septimus Miller, a timber merchant, and Annie Elizabeth Potts, his wife. His childhood was spent in Canada, but his parents came back in 1893 and he was educated in London at William Ellis's school and Guy's Hospital, where he won

Born at Newcastle on Tyne in 1884, he was a scholar of Caius, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1906. At University College Hospital he was Atkinson Morley scholar, won the Liston gold medal, and was obstetric registrar. He also worked at St Thomas'