Born at Glastonbury, Somerset in the 1860s he was educated at the Newcastle School of Medicine, where he took honours, and at the Middlesex Hospital. He was house surgeon at the Middlesex and Great North Central Hospitals. Visiting Australia in 1895 he took a locum tenancy for Edwin Roberts MRCS of

Born 10 December 1861 at 21 Harewood Square, London, W, the second child of Sidenham Duer, civil engineer, and Mary S Unwin, his. wife. He was educated at St Marylebone and All Souls Grammar School, Regent's Park, under the headmastership of A H Barford, BA, FLS, and at University College Hospital.