Born on 1 August 1875, the fourth and youngest son of Henry and Elizabeth Gask, he was educated at Dulwich College. He studied at Lausanne, Freiburg, and Baden before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1893. He qualified in 1898, and was appointed house surgeon to John Langton. He

Born at Cheadle, Cheshire on 18 January 1867 the second child and eldest son of Alfred Godson, MB, CM, and Laura Frances Mary Radcliffe, his wife. His father, Alfred Godson, who graduated at Cambridge as a senior optime, became demonstrator of anatomy at the Manchester Royal School of Medicine. Alfr

Charles Gordon Watson, he assumed the surname of Gordon-Watson by deed poll in 1920, was born 18 April 1874, the eighth child and fifth son of the Rev Henry George Watson, MA Oxford, Vicar of St Leonard's, Buckinghamshire, and his wife, *neé* Gillman. Gordon Watson joined the Roman Catholic church e

The seventh son and youngest (eleventh) child of John Henry Hewer, MRCS (see the preceding memoir of C M Hewer), he was born on 7 October 1875. He was educated at University College School and from there proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was secretary and vice-president of the Abernet

Born 3 November 1868 the third and youngest child of John McGavin, a merchant at Calcutta, and his wife, *née* Brown. He was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and subsequently passed out of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, being gazetted lieutenant in the 6th Dragoon Guards, the Carabinee

Educated at St Bartholomew's and the Middlesex Hospitals, he served as a clinical assistant at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He was a civil surgeon in South Africa during the Boer War and then settled in practice at 151 Ashley Gardens, Westminster. He had been assistant resident medical officer at

Born at Wandsworth, SE, the second son of the Rev William Henry Clogg, a Wesleyan minister, and Mary King Sherwell, his wife. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and the University College of South Wales. He received his medical training at Cardiff and afterwards at Charing Cross Hospital. At

Born on 22 October 1873 at the Manor House, Poplar, the fifth son and ninth of the ten children of Francis Mead Corner, MRCS, JP, a general practitioner, who had married his cousin Anne Corner. The family derived from Lythe, near Whitby, Yorkshire. He was educated at Epsom College, where he was head

Born in 1869 in Birmingham, son of Joshua Barnes, Frank Barnes trained at Borough Road Training College as a schoolmaster. He then decided to abandon teaching for surgery, and without great financial aid he studied medicine at Mason College, Birmingham, qualifying in 1898. Barnes achieved his first

Born 24 April 1875 the fourth child and third son of Alfred Charles Mayo, MRCS 1870, of Mildenhall, Suffolk, and afterwards of Great Yarmouth, and Eleanor Matthews his wife. He was educated at Epsom College, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a senior scholar in 1893 and took first-class

Born at Rothley, Leicestershire on 2 February 1873 the second son of J H Skevington JP, a farmer, and his wife Emma Kirkham, he was educated at Oakham, Rutlandshire and at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he served as house surgeon. After a period as clinical assistant at the Great Ormond Street Ho

He was born on 10 September 1874, son of John Barton Arundel Acland, Member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand and a barrister, and Emily Weddell Harper his wife, who was a daughter of the first Bishop of Christchurch, Primate of New Zealand. J B A Acland was the sixth son of Sir Thomas Dyke