Born on 28 August 1868, the eldest son of D W Jones JP of Aberdare, he was educated at a private school, at Perry's School, Cardiff, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified in 1890, and passed the Fellowship examination before his twenty-fifth birthday, the earliest permissible age. He held resi

Born at Cole Henley Manor, Whitchurch on the Test, Hants, the village where banknote paper is manufactured. He was the second son of Joseph Latham Bailey, gentleman farmer, and his wife Martha Palmer of Lambourn, Kent. Educated at Cranford College, Maidenhead, he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in

Born 3 August 1867 in Bombay, India, eldest son of William Soltau Eccles (1843-1919), MRCS, LSA, who later practised at Norwood, and his wife Annie Selina Campbell McAdam, a descendant of John Loudon McAdam, the road builder. The Eccles family had a long medical tradition and a close connexion with

Born 26 September 1866 at King Street, Carmarthen, the thirteenth child and fifth son of William Spurrell and his wife Sarah Walters. William Spurrell was a printer and publisher, and an author in English and Welsh; his Welsh dictionary is an accepted authority. Charles Spurrell was educated at Quee

Born 27 November 1865 at Plymouth, the only son of Admiral John Frederick George Geary Grant, RN and his wife Eliza Jane Gardner. Grant suffered from a lame leg, or he would probably have entered the Navy for his grandfather had also been an admiral. He was educated privately and at St Thomas's Hosp