Hugh Lett came of an Anglo-Irish family but was born on 17 April 1876 at Waddingham, Kirton, Lincolnshire, where his father Richard Alfred Lett (M.B. Dublin 1869) was in general practice; his grandfather had also been a doctor. He was educated at Marlborough College and kept a close connection with

Born on 26 October 1876 at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was in general practice, he was the second child and first son of George Waugh, MB, CM 1869, and Annie, his wife, daughter of Thomas Minks of York. He was educated at Epsom College, to which he was later a generous benefact

Born in 1879, he qualified in 1901 and took the Fellowship in 1903, but could not be admitted till after his twenty-fifth birthday early in 1904. He practised for a time in London, and later for many years gave his address in the official *Medical Register* as 141 Great Charles Street, Birmingham, a

Born 12 September 1874 at Feldafing, Starnberg, Bavaria, eldest child of Edward Theodore Compton, landscape painter, and his wife Auguste Pletz. He was educated at Uppingham and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was for a time prosector in the hospital's medical college and at the Royal College of Su

Born 1875, he entered the London Hospital Medical College in 1895 with the Price science scholarship and subsequently won scholarships in anatomy and biology, and the senior Letheby Scholarship. Qualifying in 1901, he served as house surgeon to Thomas Openshaw, FRCS and James Sherren, FRCS and as ho

Born 8 May 1877, the fourth son of William Fairlie Clarke, FRCS 1863, and Caroline Selina Walker his wife. He was educated at Bedford School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he was a natural science scholar. He took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1898, and re

Born 20 November 1870 at Stoke Newington, Middlesex, the fifth child and fourth son of Thomas John Cross, tea merchant, and his wife, *née* Edmunds. He was educated at Tonbridge School and at Dulwich College. At Guy's Hospital he served as house surgeon, resident obstetric officer and demonstrator o

Born 12 June 1876 at 23 Portland Square, Carlisle, the eldest son of. Roderick Maclaren, MD, surgeon to the Cumberland Infirmary, and Isabella Emma Campbell, his wife. He was educated at Rugby when Dr Percival was headmaster, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge as a pensioner on 25 June 1894. He

Born at Swansea on 11 May 1871 the third child and only son of Thomas Durslyn Griffiths, MD (1837-1914), a former president of the British Medical Association, and Frances Annette Secretan Gabb, his wife. His mother was the third daughter of the Rev J F Secretan Gabb, of Balcarres, Charlton Kings, G

Frederick Curtis was born in 1873, the son of Albert Curtis MRCS 1857, a general practitioner at Staines, Middlesex, and grandson of Frederick Curtis MRCS 1832, who had practised there previously. He was brought up a Quaker and educated at Bootham, York. His family had a long tradition in medicine f

Born in 1874, a Brahmin, he spent his professional life in Edgbaston, Birmingham. He figured in the news in December 1943 when he was acquitted of a serious charge (*Brit med* 1944, 1, 56 quoting *Birmingham Post* 15, 16, 17 Dec 1943). His son was Anand Krishna Pardhy FRCS. Pardhy died in a Londo

Born on 30 November 1878 at Enfield, the fourth child and third son of William Stephen Ridewood and Anne Foreman his wife, he was educated at Enfield Grammar School, where his father was headmaster. He studied medicine at the London Hospital, and won gold medals at the BS examination in 1906 and at