Hugh Davies was born on 1 February 1867, the eldest son and first child of U Davies, an auctioneer and valuer, and his wife Laura Eliza Jones. He was educated at Oswestry and at University College, London, before he entered Guy's Hospital as a medical student. Here he served as house surgeon, gradua

Educated at Christ's College, Cambridge and at Guy's Hospital, where he was Gurney prizeman in 1894 and served the office of house physician. He was for a time clinical assistant at the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and then went into partnership with David Arnott, MB, ChB Edinburgh, at Sh

Born 17 March 1872, third child and second son of Philip Cowen. Holloway, MRCS 1864, MD Durham 1882, assistant surgeon Royal Navy and later medical officer to the Islington Workhouse, and his wife *née* Hebb. The elder son, Thomas Philip Cowen, MRCS 1889, MD London 1893, became medical superintenden

Born 8 February 1871 at Cemarques, High Street, Deal, Kent, the eighth child and fourth son of Frederick Thomas Hulke, FRCS, and Charlotte Backhouse, his wife. He was educated at Dover College and at the Middlesex Hospital, where his uncle John Whitaker Hulke, FRCS, was surgeon. He acted as apotheca

Born 10 June 1869 at the Swan Hotel, Bucklow Hill, Rotherne, Knutsford, Cheshire, the son of James Henry Cuff of Rangemore, Altrincham, Cheshire, manufacturer of mineral waters, and Katherine Elizabeth Greaves, his wife. He was educated at Bowdon College, Cheshire and at Owen's College, Manchester.

He received his medical training at St Mary's Hospital, where he was Meadows memorial scholar in the practice of gynaecology and midwifery for 1893. Linington practised for many years as a surgical specialist at Folkestone, living latterly at 1 Radnor Park Avenue. He was medical officer to Bruce Por

Born at Dunedin, New Zealand in 1868, the son of Captain William Baldwin, Indian Army, retired. He was educated at Dunedin High School and in Germany. After working in a solicitor's office and a bank at Dunedin he entered the Otago Medical School at the age of twenty. To complete his training he ent

Born 21 April 1868 at Ararat, Victoria, Australia, son of Dr Thomas Scott who was in practice there. He was educated in Australia, but received his medical training at Glasgow, where he qualified in 1890, proceeding to the doctorate in 1893, the year in which he gained the English Conjoint diplomas.

Born at Bungay, Suffolk, 7 January 1870, the fifth son of Henry Wightman, draper, and his wife, *née* Hambling. He was educated at the Grammar Schools at Bungay and Great Yarmouth, before proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital. From the Hospital he passed the final examination for FRCS at the age o

Son of a yeoman farmer of Kingsbridge, South Devon, Francis Coaker studied medicine at the London Hospital. After holding resident appointments there he settled in practice at Bromsgrove in 1897. There he combined a large general practice with the post of surgeon to the Bromsgrove Cottage Hospital,

Born at Malmesbury, Wiltshire on 13 July 1867 the second son of Colonel J R Luce DL, JP and Mary Visger his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1889, and graduated in medicine in 1893. He

Born in Scotland on 22 November 1870, the eldest child of Andrew Howat, a muslin merchant, and his wife née Smith, he was educated at Pollokshields Academy and Glasgow University where he qualified in 1892. He took the English conjoint diplomas in 1893 and the Fellowship in 1896 but continued to pra