Born on 9 November 1879, the only son of Sir Frederick Robert Upcott, KCVO, CSI, civil engineer, and his wife Jessie Turner. Sir F R Upcott had a distinguished career as a railway engineer in India. Harold Upcott was educated privately abroad, till he entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Aft

Born at Hilliers, Petworth, Sussex on 14 May 1876, the third child and eldest son of J N C Davies-Colley, FRCS, surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Sophia Margaret Turner, his wife. He was a brother of Robert Davies-Colley, FRCS and of Eleanor Davies-Colley, FRCS. He was at Westminster School from Septem

Educated at University College Hospital he won an exhibition and a university gold medal. After qualifying in 1902, he was assistant house surgeon at Rotherham Hospital and house surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford. He practised for some years at York and later at Newcastle, St

Born in Eastern Bengal, 23 June 1878, the sixth child and second son of Frederick William Joseph Rees, of the Bengal civil service, and Alice Hawthorn Heathcote, his wife. He was educated at Haileybury and the Middlesex Hospital, where he won a prize in anatomy and in 1899 a second-year exhibition,