Born 22 July 1878, the eldest of the two sons and three daughters of Thomas Johnston English, MRCS 1873, and Eliza Crisp, his wife. Dr T J English succeeded his father Dr Thomas English, MRCS 1848, in practice at 128 Fulham Road, South Kensington, and was anaesthetist to the Cancer Hospital; he died

Born 24 August 1877 at Frogmoor House, High Wycombe, Bucks, in the house where his grandfather, William Hayden, LSA 1837, MRCS 1856, and his father, William Gallimore Hayden, MRCS 1863, had successively practised medicine. His mother was Elizabeth Matilda, daughter of William Falconer, who founded t