Born on 14 August 1872 at Moss Hall, Finchley, Middlesex, the elder son of John Campin Newman, stockbroker, and Fanny, his wife, daughter of Roger Peele of Park House, South Molton, North Devon. He was educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Cambridge, before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital, wh

Born on 14 October 1875, he won a Grierson bursary at Edinburgh University in 1893 and qualified in 1898. After a term as assistant house surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary in 1899 he attended the Yorkshire College, now Leeds University, and proceeded to the Edinburgh MD in 1905. While at Leeds he m