Born at Kuruman, South Africa in 1871, son of the Rev J S Moffat and great-grandson of Robert Moffat the pioneer missionary and father-in-law of David Livingstone, who set up his mission at Kuruman in 1824, he was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and the University of Cape Town, and took

Born on 24 January 1868 at 22 Henry Street, Cork, eldest of the three sons of Patrick O'Hea and Juliet Lawes Woodforde, his wife. His father was a superintending inspector of HM Inland Revenue at Somerset House, London. His grandfather was W T G Woodforde, MD, of Bow, and his great-grandfather Henry

Educated at the Newcastle Medical School (University of Durham) and Guy's Hospital, he joined the resident staff of the Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. He went back to Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1901 as assistant surgeon to the Northumberland and Durham Eye Infirmary, but returned to Brighton in 1907 as