Studied in Dublin at the Royal College of Surgeons and at the Meath Hospital. He practised successively at Ashley, Staffordshire, where he was Union Medical Officer; at Newcastle in the same county; at 17 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin; at 87 Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, London, W; and at 133 Rathgar

Born at Oldham, the son of James Whitehead, who had a great local reputation as a herbalist and dealer in simples. James, after working as a boy in a cotton mill, attended the Marsden Street School of Medicine in Manchester and was apprenticed first to Mr Clough, of Lever Street, and afterwards to W

Born at Melksham, Wiltshire, the third son of the Rev James Taylor, of Lewes, Sussex. He was educated at Kingswood School and at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, Resident Surgical Officer, and Resident Medical Officer. In 1877 he settled in Birmingham as Medica

Born 13 December 1866, second son of Thomas Albert Littler, law stationer, of Manchester, and Mary Meredith his wife. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and entered Owens College after private tuition with the Rev R M Leigh, of Norbreek near Blackpool. He was afterwards elected an Asso

John Woodward Horsley was born in Auckland in 1906. His father, Arthur Horsley, was a chemist in downtown Auckland at the turn of the century. John used to say that he and his mother, Alice, spanned 100 years of medical practice as she was the third woman to graduate from Otago Medical School and th

The following was published in volume 5 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Gough was born in 1883 and educated at Leeds Medical School, which had at the time a staff of outstanding teachers. He graduated in the University of Leeds in 1905, taking the Conjoint Diploma the same year, and served as hou

Born in Paris on 16 June 1860 of a family which came from Mulhouse in Alsace, he was an interne at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1881-82 under Terrier, Lailler, Lannelongue, Guyon, and Duplay, and worked at the École pratique under Faraboeuf. He was demonstrator of anatomy 1884 and prosector 1886, and he receiv

Born on 7 March 1895 the son of Major W St M Hefferman, Burma Medical Service, he was educated at Epsom College, where he was a prefect and won the Modern History prize. He served as a combatant in the first world war, with the rank of Captain in the 7th battalion, the Border Regiment, and was sever

William Burnett was born in London on 14 March 1906 and received his medical education at University College Hospital. As a student he won exhibitions in pathology and biology. After qualification in 1929 he took resident appointments at Portsmouth Hospital, and then settled in general practice at R

Nicholas Attygalle was born on 14 July 1894 at Ratnapura, Ceylon, where his father Don Louis Attygalle was a government official. The Attygalles were from Madapatha, Ceylon, where they own extensive lands. Nicholas Attygalle was educated at Ratnapura, at the Royal College, Colombo, and entered the C

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'

Born on 17 February 1888, son of Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Cooke Alton CB, CMG, RN, he was educated at Bedford School. After qualifying from St Thomas's Hospital in 1910, he entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon. Four years later he graduated MB BS at London University. During the first world