Born in Australia on 8 August 1860, the eldest child of George Brice Pennell, civil engineer, and his wife, *née* Mist. He was educated at Lancing College and at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was a scholar and took third-class honours in Classical Moderations in 1881. He entered Guy's Hospital M

Born at Perry Hall, Bromsgrove, on 16 January 1864, the third son and fifth of the seven children of Edward Housman, solicitor, and Sarah Jane Williams, his wife. He was educated at Bromsgrove School and at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, where he was house physician and house surgeon. He then acted a

Born on 29 May 1866 at Romsey, Hampshire, third child and second son of the Rev John White and his wife Martha Fisher, he was educated at Monkton Combe School and University College Hospital, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy for several years and held the usual resident posts. He took hono

Born on 11 February 1867 at Colombo, Ceylon, where his father, William Dumaresq Wright, was colonial treasurer; his mother's maiden name was Amy Braybrooke; he was their second son and third child. He was educated at Appledurcombe College, Isle of Wight, and at Haileybury, and took his medical train

Born at Islington on 12 June 1863, the eldest son of John Barnett, public secretary, and Emma Sewell, his wife. He was at school at Streatham Hill and at Oxford, before entering Charing Cross Hospital Medical School; where he won the Bone prize in 1881 and the physiology medal in 1882. After qualify

Born at Tottenham on 28 May 1867, second son and fourth child of the Rev A R Abbott and his wife, née Bax. He was educated at Bruce Castle School in London and at St Thomas's Hospital. At the University of London he had a brilliant career as a student. He won the gold medal in anatomy and organic ch

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