Born 11 April 1878 in a legal family he was educated at Highgate School. He had his clinical training at King's College Hospital, then still in Clare Market behind the Royal College, and served as a house surgeon there and at the Royal Free Hospital. He joined the Sudan Medical Service in 1907 wh

Born at Melbourne in 1879, eldest child of John Cooke, pasturalist, who had formerly lived in New Zealand, and Edith Marshall, his wife. He was educated at Melbourne University, where he qualified in 1901, and served as house physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He took the BS in 1902 and then