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

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 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 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 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 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 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

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

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 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 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 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