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 28 December 1870 at Cwmmarch, Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, the eldest son of Griffith Thomas, FRCVS, and Jane Jenkins, his wife. He was educated at Cilian Park School near Aberayron, Cardiganshire, at the Newquay Grammar School, Cardiganshire, and at University College, Aberystwyth. He entered th

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 in London on 10 April 1874 the fifth child and second son of John Theodore Rodocanachi, merchant, and Fanny Mavrogordato, his wife. He was educated at University College School, University College, and University College Hospital. He won an exhibition and the gold medal in organic chemistry at

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

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

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 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 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

Harry Guy Dain was born at Birmingham on 5 November 1870, and was educated at King Edward's Grammar School, and Josiah Mason's College (the medical department of Queen's College, Birmingham) qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1893, and taking the London MB in 1894. After junior hospital appoint

Born 11 October 1870 at Islington, the ninth child and third son of George Home, tutor, and Helen Olivia Lucette his wife. He was educated at the City of London School and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, where he won the Bristowe medal in pathology and became assistant in the pathological labor

Born 8 August 1868 at Partney, Lincolnshire the eighth child and fourth son of the Rev Robert Giles and his wife, *née* Laurent. He was educated at Christ's Hospital (the Bluecoat School), entering the junior school at Hertford and being afterwards moved to the senior school in London, when the Rev