Born on 4 September 1880 eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Samuel Johnson (1846-99), Medical Officer of Health for Stoke-on-Trent and Julia his wife, daughter of James Webb. Mrs Johnson died only in 1931; her children had all adopted her maiden surname, Webb, before their father's name. Dr

Born at Dewsbury, Yorkshire, the second child and second son of Benjamin Hepworth, woollen manufacturer, and his wife, *née* Haley. He was educated at the Wheelwright Grammar School, Dewsbury, and won a scholarship at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sci

He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won two junior scholarships in 1900 and the University gold medal in anatomy in 1901. He took the Conjoint qualification and the London MB with honours in medicine and forensic medicine in 1903; and won the Kirke scholarship and gold medal in 19

Born in London 12 August 1879, he was educated at St Paul's School and Guy's Hospital, where he qualified as a dental surgeon before going on to medicine. After resident posts at Great Ormond Street, St Thomas's and Manchester Royal Infirmary, he was appointed in 1905 to the Nottingham General Hospi

Born in Ceylon 5 November 1879 son of Mudaliyar William Marcellus De Silva, he was educated at Royal College, Colombo, and at the London Hospital Medical College from which he took the Fellowship, being the first Ceylonese postgraduate student to do so. He returned to Colombo where he made a dist

Gwynne Williams was born in 1881 at Luton, the son of Herbert Owen Williams JP, a timber merchant, and Edith Jane Edwards his wife. He went from Bedford Grammar School to University College Hospital where he had a brilliant career as a student and a resident; he played rugger for the Hospital and wa

Born in London, 28 May 1878, third child and second son of Paul Balme, surveyor, and his wife née Kirkness, he was educated at Cooper's Grammar School and King's College, London, where he was Worsley scholar 1898, and won the Warneford, Leathes, and Todd prizes in medicine and the Berry Prize in div

Born on 30 December 1877 at Garforth, near Leeds, Yorkshire, son of Sir John Ward and his wife, *née* Brambles. His father afterwards became Lord Mayor of Leeds. He was educated in Switzerland and at Clare College, Cambridge, and took first-class honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos,