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 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

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

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 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

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 10 September 1869, he was educated at Cheltenham College and Durham University. He graduated MB BS in 1891 and afterwards held a series of resident appointments in Newcastle. He was a demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer in surgical anatomy in the old University of Durham Medical College. In

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

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 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

Educated at Leeds, he served as house surgeon at the General Infirmary and the Hospital for Women and Children, after qualifying with first-class honours and winning many prizes. He then went into general practice at Holmfirth near Huddersfield. During the first world war he served in the RAMC. A

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