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 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 on 14 July 1871 at Deptford, Kent, second son of Edwin Unwin, master printer, and Elizabeth Spicer, his wife. His younger brother Stanley became chairman of George Allen and Unwin Ltd, publishers, was president of the Publishers' Association 1933-35, and was knighted. William Unwin was educated

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

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 about 1879 he was educated at Otago Medical School, New Zealand, and subsequently at the London Hospital, where he was house surgeon. While in England, during 1897 to 1901, he worked also at St Peter's Hospital for Stone. He then went to Victoria, Australia, living at St Kilda's, Melbourne a

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 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

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

Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he made postgraduate study at St Mary's and King's College Hospitals, London, and also in Vienna, Paris, and Würzburg. He served as house surgeon at the West London Hospital, and as clinical assistant in surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital. He emigrated t

Born in New Zealand about 1869, he was educated at Dunedin, and graduated in arts in 1890. He took his medical training at Edinburgh, qualifying in 1895, and was house physician at the Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital, Edinburgh, and house surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Children and

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