For most of his career Peter Woodland Hunt was one of the few surgeons in the vast country of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). There he rapidly learnt to cope efficiently with mine accidents, ophthalmics, plastics and obstetrics, in addition to a heavy general surgical workload. He was born in Dubli

Born on 3 October 1863 at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, son of Edward James Counsell, an inland revenue official, and May Ann George, his wife. His father was a Somerset man and his mother came from Pembroke. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, which he served as resident obstetric officer. He settled in

Born on 1 August 1863 in Alderney, Channel Islands, second son of William Vickery, engineer, and his wife, *née* Tucker. He was educated at Plymouth and at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, where he was senior Broderip scholar in 1887, the year of his qualification. He became an ardent admirer

Born near Rotherham on 12 March 1875, he was educated at Wesley College, Sheffield, the Yorkshire College, Leeds, and University College, Liverpool, graduating through the Victoria University with first-class honours in 1896. After serving as house surgeon and medical registrar and tutor at Liverpoo

Was in the Honourable East India Company's Naval Service, next in general practice, and the proprietor of the Burman House Lunatic Asylum, Henley-in-Arden, where he died on September 4th, 1855. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Numismatic Society.

Allan Gordon Campbell, known as 'AG', was born on May 4, 1916, in Adelaide, the first child of Iris (née Fisher) and Gordon Campbell. His sister, Judith, was born in 1920. Schooled at St Peter's College, Allan entered the University of Adelaide Medical School at 16. At university, he excelled at

Charles Athelstane Lupton was born on 17 April 1897. His great-grandfather was Thomas Michael Greenhow of Newcastle-upon-Tyne who was one of the first to excise a carious os calcis and one of the original 300 Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was educated at Wellington College. After trai

Neil Mackillop was born of Scottish parents in Karachi in 1920. He was educated at Glasgow High School and the University of Glasgow where he captained the university rugby team. After qualifying in 1943 and one year in resident appointments he joined the Royal Navy for three years and returned to t

Bruce Christopher MacGregor Williamson was a general practitioner and an assistant surgeon at Melton and District War Memorial Hospital, Melton Mowbray. After qualifying MB BS in 1959, he held house posts at Middlesex Hospital. He went on to become an assistant lecturer at University College London

John Wingate Maltby was a general practitioner and surgeon in Tiverton, Devon. He was born in London in 1928, the son of Henry Wingate Maltby, a doctor. He was educated at Trinity College School, Ontario, Canada, and Marlborough College, and went on to Cambridge University and St Bartholomew's Hospi

Born in June, 1819, at Heckington, Lincolnshire, and was apprenticed for the sum of £294 for five years in 1834 to Wilson Wade, of the Westminster Dispensary, Gerrard Street, Soho. His indenture stated that he was apprenticed for the purpose of being instructed in the arts, business, or professions

Born 27 May 1881, he was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire and later, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Guy's Hospital. He played association football for Guy's and also ran in the mile. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1906 and spent several years in house appointments at Guy's.