Edward Holmes Rainey was born at Paignton on 5 April 1886 and educated at Bedford School and the London Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1909. He was house surgeon to Russell Howard and in 1913 took the FRCS. He then settled in general practice at Eastbourne, Sussex, but soon volunt

Stanley Ritson began his medical training at King's College, London, where he took his BSc with honours in physiology in 1909 and was senior demonstrator in anatomy. His clinical years were spent at St Thomas's Hospital, from which he took the Conjoint qualification in 1911. He was academically gift

Clement Edward Shattock was born 2 August 1887, at Clapham, London, the second son of Samuel George Shattock, FRS, FRCS, and Lucy Wood. He was educated at Wimbledon College and University College Hospital Medical School where he qualified in 1909. He had a brilliant academic career, obtaining entran

Robert Morison Rowe was born on 23 February 1875, the son of an English father and a French mother, this latter fact having a permanent effect upon his subsequent career. His preclinical studies were done partly in Edinburgh and partly in Dublin, and for his clinical work he came to St Bartholomew's

Matthew Robert Cecil McWatters, son of David McWatters of Bath, was born there on 4 January 1878. He was educated at Bath Grammar School and at King's College, London, taking the Conjoint diploma in 1902 and the MB the following year. At King's College Hospital he was chosen by Sir Watson Cheyne as

Dudley Denham Pinnock was born in Australia in 1885 and received his medical education at the University of Melbourne where he graduated MB BS in 1908. After junior appointments in Australia he came to London for surgical training and took the Conjoint Diploma in 1911 and the FRCS in 1913. During th

Robert Anstruther Ramsay was born in Montreal on 18 February 1887, his forebears having emigrated to Canada from Aberdeenshire in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He went to school in Canada, the USA and Switzerland and then to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where in 1908 he obtain

Adrian Leonard Moreton was born in London on 18 December 1886 and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1910. After junior hospital posts he passed the London MB BS in 1913, winning the University Medal and gaining distinc

Stanley Hoyte was born in Nottingham on 22 August, 1885. He was the seventh son of William Henry Hoyte, an architect and surveyor. He studied medicine at King's College and then at Westminster Hospital, graduating in 1910. Whilst a medical student he won the Victor Ludorum of the United Hospitals At

Edward G Slesinger was steadfastly a Guy's man working for its medical school and hospital for nearly 60 years. The only break in this period of service was during the first world war when he served as temporary Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy being mentioned in despatches, awarded the OBE in 1

Born about 1888, C V Anderson qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1911 from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, where he was Tite Scholar in 1907, won the Treasurer's Gold Medal in 1911, was elected Beaney Scholar in 1912, and held house appointments. He took the Fellowship in 1913 and migrat

Charles D'Oyly Grange was born at Moffat, Scotland, in 1887. His father was an Edinburgh graduate in medicine and a general practitioner, first at Moffat and later for many years at Harrogate during the summer and at Bournemouth during the winter. Grange's early professional training was at the L