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

Cyril Wace was educated at King's College Hospital and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1893. When he was appointed house surgeon at King's Joseph Lister was still the senior surgeon at the hospital. He took the FRCS in 1897 and became honorary consultant surgeon to the Royal Hampshire County

Born at Hill House, Wickwar, Gloucestershire on 10 July 1869, the eighth child and sixth son of John Arnold, brewer and farmer, and Clara Harward his wife. The six consecutive sons were followed by two daughters. He was educated at the local grammar school before entering St Thomas's Hospital, where

Born 3 June 1860, eldest son of George Baldwin and Marthe Ann Moore his wife. He was educated at Nottingham Grammar School and at the Middlesex Hospital. He became in due course consulting surgeon to the West London Hospital, to St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum, to the Royal Masonic Hos

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 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 25 January 1870, ninth and youngest child and fifth son of Frederic Turner of Nizels, Hildenborough, near Sevenoaks, Kent, a retired army clothier, and Martha Orr Faithfull, his wife, daughter of Lt-Col Richard Coventry Faithfull, HEICS. His father died when William was a very small child. He w

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

Born at Blackheath, Kent, on 11 September 1869, the seventh child and second son of Charles Pantin, wholesale merchant, and Ella Satchell, his wife. He was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School, and at Guy's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He was also house surgeon and house physicia

Born at Parkstone, Dorset, 16 April 1869, son of Thomas Belben, he was educated at Haileybury College and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1888. He qualified in 1891, and served as house surgeon, house physician, and resident m

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,