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

Born on 18 February 1870 son of John Sloane MD Edinburgh, and Sarah Stretton his wife, he was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Senior (1891), Brackenbury (1893), and Lawrence (1894) scholarships and served as house surgeon, senior assistant demonstrator of anatomy, and senior a