Eldred Walls was professor of anatomy at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London, and a highly distinguished anatomist. He was born in Glasgow, the second son of J T Walls, but was orphaned at the age of 13. Financial pressures meant he had to leave Hillhead High School at 15 and mat

Ian Urquhart Fraser was an anatomy lecturer in London. He was born in Bangkok in 1926. During the Second World War he served in the Army and, in 1945, was based in Germany. Following his demobilisation, he returned to Britain to begin his studies as a medical student at King's College, London. Foll

Born at Dunse, in Scotland. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and went to America in 1830, where he studied medicine in the University Medical School, New York. Here he took his degree, devoting his time to the study and teaching of anatomy, in which subject he obtained a considerable

Robert Matthew Hay McMinn was a leading anatomist, who will always be associated with the medical atlas that bears his name. Known to his friends and colleagues as 'Bob', he was born on 20 September 1923 in Auchinleck, Ayrshire, the only child of Robert Martin McMinn, a local general practitioner, a

Simon Wapnick was an anatomist based in New York. He was born on 25 October 1937 in Pretoria, South Africa, the son of Percy Jacob Wapnick and Fanny née Levitt. He was educated at Pretoria Boys’ High School and then went on to the University of Pretoria Medical School. He held house appointments at

Thomas Nicol was born in Scotland on 4 August 1900, the son of William Nicol and Mary Wilson Gilmour and after early education entered the University of Glasgow for his medical studies, qualifying in 1922. Shortly after qualification he became senior house surgeon to Sir William Maccwen at the Weste

Solly Zuckerman was born on 30 May 1904 in Cape Town, South Africa, the son of Moses Zuckerman, a gold prospector and businessman and his wife Ruth, née Glaser. He was educated at the South African College School and the University of Cape Town, where he was Libermann Scholar. He then came to London

Born at Birmingham, the younger son of Edward Grainger, surgeon. His elder brother, Edward (1797-1824), was the well-known founder of the Webb Street School, one of the most flourishing of the private medical schools in London. Richard Grainger entered the Military Academy at Woolwich as a cadet,

Born on February 6th, 1804, the sixth son of Charles Shaw, Clerk of the County of Ayr, and Barbara Wright, his wife, daughter of a Collector of Customs at Greenock. John Shaw (1792-1827), Lecturer on Anatomy at the Great Windmill Street School of Medicine, who helped Sir Charles Bell in making his d

Born on May 27th, 1850, at Great Berkhamsted, the eldest son of George Dancer Thane, MD St Andrews, who practised in Hart Street, Bloomsbury. He entered University College, London, in 1867 and was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy to Professor G Viner Ellis (qv) in 1870, a year before he obtained th

Born at Croydon in 1870 he was educated at Chatham House College, Ramsgate, and at Charing Cross Hospital, London. Here he was house physician, house surgeon, assistant demonstrator of anatomy, acid surgical registrar. He then proceeded to Newcastle, where he was appointed assistant demonstrator of

Born about 1880 he was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1903, taking also the triple qualification of the Scottish Royal medical corporations. He went to South Africa as civil surgeon to the military hospital at Middelburg (1903-04) and from 1905 to 1908 was a district