Born 2 May 1868 at Bradford, Yorks, the eldest son of Henry James Cooke, a wool merchant of Summerfield, Ilkley. He was educated at Giggleswick School and matriculated from New College, Oxford, graduating with second-class honours in chemistry in the final school of natural science. He then acted fo

Born 24 July 1873 at Hazareebagh in the province of Calcutta where his grandfather, George Robert Nuthall (1821-1900), was an assistant surgeon in the HEIC service from 1845 to 1862; his father too was in the Company's service. Alexander Nuthall was educated at Westward Ho College and received his m

Born in Canada on 23 July 1871, son of William Cox Lelean, he was educated at Hart House and St Mary's Hospital, London. During the South African War he was commissioned in the Army Medical Service and gained the Queen's medal with four clasps. In 1903 he served on the Anglo-French Boundary Commissi

Born at Brixton, London on 25 July 1872, the second son and youngest child of Sextus Dyball, architect and surveyor, and Elizabeth Ledger his wife. He entered Merchant Taylor's School, then in Charterhouse Square, in January 1883, won the hurdles, played in the school XV 1889-90, rose to the Prompte

Born 1870 at St Arnaud, Mornington peninsula, Victoria, Australia, son of the Rev Ralph Brown, he was educated at Toorak College and at Queen's College, Melbourne University. He won several scholarships, graduating in medicine and surgery in 1892 with the Beaney scholarship and the first place in su