Educated at Guy's Hospital, he held resident posts there and at Great Ormond Street. During the first world war he served at a casualty clearing station in France. He was assistant surgeon at Croydon General Hospital and afterwards practised at 27 Beaumont Street, Oxford. Robinson retired to Sheepst

Born on 12 July 1874, for his medical education he went to Guy's Hospital, and, after qualifying in 1897, he entered the Indian Medical Service on 28 January 1898 obtaining a gold medal in military medicine at Netley. Promoted Captain on 28 January 1901, he was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind medal, first

Robert Ainslie Ross was born in 1876 and came over from South Africa to study medicine in Edinburgh, where he was awarded a Dunlop Scholarship and was the first South African to win the Ettles Scholarship. He captained the University Rugby team and graduated in 1900, proceeding to take the Conjoint

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 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 in 1876 the eldest son of W H Coke MD of Ashford, Kent, he was educated at George's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, house physician, and resident obstetric assistant. He practised at 137 Harley Street, and was a member of the Harveian Society. He died after a long illness in the Cou

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 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

Born at Highbury, London on 29 July 1877, the third child and second son of Thomas Emley Young, actuary, and his wife Harriet Maria, daughter of John Rayner, MRCS 1859, MD Lambeth 1861, of Highbury. T E Young served the office of president of the Institute of Actuaries. He was educated at Univers

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

Born at Dalry, Ayrshire on 25 March 1872, the fifth son and ninth youngest child of Andrew Blair Aitken and his wife Jane Young. He was educated at the Ayrshire Academy, Ayr, and at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1893. After holding resident appointments at Oldham Infirmary and the Wirral