Born on 30 May 1871 at Hampstead, where his father was in practice at 1 Abercrombie Villas, Rosslyn Hill. He was the thirteenth child of William Henry Cook, MD, MRCS, medical officer for Hampstead parish, and his wife, Harriet Bickersteth. He was educated at St Paul's School and University College H

Born 9 October 1870, the third child and third son of James Hamilton Carson, a civil engineer, and Caroline Sharpe, his wife. He was educated privately and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. In 1895 he was elected house surgeon at the Tottenham Hospital and remained attached to the institution fo

Born 7 October 1871 at Brightley, Umberleigh, North Devon, the second son of John Mortimer, yeoman, and his wife Mary Graddon. He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and at the London Hospital, where he was first Buxton scholar in 1890. He took the Conjoint qualification in 1895, and procee

Born about 1874 he was educated at St Mary's Hospital, qualified in 1895 and proceeded to the London doctorate in 1898 and the Fellowship in 1899. He then went to South Africa and served as a civil surgeon with the field force during the war. Afterwards he settled at Pretoria, where he served for

Educated at St Mary's Hospital, where he served as surgical registrar, he was a surgical clinical assistant at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. During the South African war he served in the Imperial Yeomanry base hospital at Deelfontein in 1900. He was subsequently consulting surgeon

Born at Neath, Glamorganshire on 6 January 1872, the second son of Samuel Evans, a master ironmonger, and his wife, Sarah Ann Woolacott; Samuel Evans served as High Constable of Neath. A H Evans was educated at Neath Proprietary School and the Westminster Hospital, which he entered with a scholarshi

Born 8 November 1867 at 15 Sheffield Gardens, Kensington, the eldest surviving son of Alfred Pizzey Newton and Jessie Wylie, his wife. His father (1830-83) was a well-known landscape painter, of whom there is an account with a portrait in *The Illustrated London News*, 27 October 1883, p. 405. The a

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

Born 12 January 1872 at Bitterne, Southampton, the seventh child and fourth son of James Dick Steward, a commander in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, and Mary L Harris, his wife. He was educated at Bedford until he entered the medical school at Guy's Hospital in October

Born at Gravesend on 14 February 1873 he was educated at University College Hospital medical school and served as senior obstetric assistant in the Hospital. He travelled as a ship's surgeon, served as senior house surgeon at Halifax Royal Infirmary, and then settled at Leicester. Here he was house