Born 12 May 1869, third child and second son of William Adams, brick and tile manufacturer, by his wife Clara Simkin. He was educated at the City of London School and at King's College Hospital. Here he gained the first Warneford prize in 1890 and the prize in medicine in the following year; afterwa

Born 23 May 1869 the youngest of the eleven children of John Farley Rutter, solicitor, of Mere, Wilts, and Hannah Player Tanner, his wife. He was educated at Sidcot School, Winscombe, after which he began his medical studies at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he took the first place in honours at the Uni