Born in 1885 son of Thomas Henry Attwater, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, he was educated at Merchant Taylors School and won an exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1906. His father had been a scholar of Pembroke. He qua

Kenneth Perry was born in London on 25 August 1929. His father, John, was a chef and his mother, Cecilia Gertrude, née Berry, a nurse. From Surrey County School he went to St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where he qualified MB BS, and afterwards held appointments at Princess Beatrice Hospital and the

Terence Millin, internationally famous for the introduction of the operation of retropubic prostatectomy, was born in Helen's Bay, County Down, on 9 January 1903. He was educated at St Andrew's College and Trinity College, Dublin, gaining a Kidd Entrance Exhibition in 1921. As an undergraduate he wa

John Barry Anderson was a consultant urological surgeon at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. He was born on 10 April 1952 in Redhill, Surrey, the eldest son of Edward James Anderson, a hospital administrator and ex-bomber pilot, and Catherine Elizabeth Anderson née Boland, a nurse who had e

Born on April 2, 1899 at Newcastle, New South Wales, a son of the manse, James was educated at the University of Sydney. After qualifying in 1921, he held resident appointments at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, and later in London at the West London Hospital and St Bartholomew's. He speci

John Creyghton Ainsworth-Davis was born on 23 April 1895 at Aberystwyth. His father was Professor of Biology in the University of Wales and later Principal of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. He was educated at Westminster School and from there went up to Christ's College, Cambridge, wit

Born 5 February 1885, fourth child and third son of Denis Joseph Loughnane, collector of customs and excise, he was educated at Clapham College, King's College, London, and St Thomas's Hospital, where he won the entrance and Peacock scholarships and the Treasurer's gold medal. He was casualty office

Born in 1885, he was educated at Epsom College, Exeter College, Oxford and the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1911 and was appointed house surgeon to Percy Furnivall and Frank Kidd, which probably stimulated his special interest in urology. After this he became house physician, resident acco

Born on 16 June 1903, Chapman received his medical education at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1928. He was appointed a senior house surgeon at the Western Infirmary, and later was a demonstrator of anatomy at the University. Coming to London for postgraduate study he worked at St Bartholo

Joe Magri was a consultant urologist at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford. He was born in Valletta, Malta, on 2 March 1926, the son of Francesca and Tancred Magri. He was educated at the Jesuit College and Malta University, where he qualified in 1949. He then moved to England to specialise in surgery.

Born 13 April 1850 in Manchester, the elder son of Henry Browne, MD (1819-1901), physician to Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Ann, his wife daughter of George Hadfield, MP for Sheffield. Henry Browne's father and grandfather had practised at Manchester since the latter, George Buckston Browne (1756-

Isaac Jacobson was a urological surgeon in Cape Town, South Africa. He was educated at SACS (South African College Schools) in Newlands, Cape Town, and then went on to study medicine at the University of Cape Town, qualifying in 1935. He travelled to London intending to train as a surgeon, but, wit