Born at Pewsey Vale, South Australia, the pastoral estate settled in 1838 by his grandfather Joseph Gilbert who came from Pewsey, Wiltshire, and thus a third generation Australian in one of the longest established South Australian families, he was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, and the Un

Born in 1877 at Layfields, Rufford, Nottinghamshire, the second son of Henry Hardwick Smith, flour-miller of Langley Mill, and his wife Elizabeth Eaton. He was educated at Wycliffe College and at St John's College, Cambridge. He received his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying

Born at Worcester on 12 October 1878, the third child and eldest son of Tom Bates, MRCS 1868, and Alice Mary Davis, his wife. Tom Bates senior died on 3 April 1916 (*Brit med J*. 1916, 1, 574; *Lancet*, 1916, 1, 837); his younger son Mark was also a Fellow. Tom Bates the younger was educated at Worc

Born 13 November 1882, the eldest child of William Richardson Edmond, MRCS 1875, then practising at Chew Magna, Somerset, and his wife, *née* Square. Dr W R Edmond moved to Camberwell in 1893, and W S Edmond was educated there at Wilson's Grammar School. He took his medical training at St Bartholome

Born in London on 13 April 1880, one of the five sons of Briton Riviere RA, the distinguished painter of animals, and Mary Alice Dobell his wife, he was educated at St Paul's School, St Andrews University, and St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was house surgeon. He was house physician at the Genera

Born at Weymouth on 4 March 1878, eldest of the three sons of Walter Benjamin Cole, chemist, and his wife Mary Parmiter, of Dorchester. He was educated at Weymouth College, and as a dental student at Guy's Hospital. After qualifying as a dentist in 1899 he decided to become a surgeon. He took the Co

Born 14 December 1878, the second son and third child of Robert Harry Hughes, MB, who was in general practice at Plymouth, and his wife Laetitia Cavanagh Jervis. His elder brother Lawson Jervis Hughes, after training at Guy's Hospital, was killed in the South African war, when he was serving as a mo

Born on 6 January 1880 at Eaton, near Congleton, Cheshire, the first child and eldest son of Henry James Cumberlidge, JP, wholesale provision merchant of Hyde, Cheshire, and Anna Maria Ford, his wife. He was educated at Eaton School and at the modern and grammar school, Macclesfield. On 16 January 1

Allan Rigden Finn was born on 23 June 1879. His father William George Finn was a prosperous farmer who resided at Grove House, Faversham, Kent; he and his wife, Ellen Ann Finn had a family of thirteen children, six boys and seven girls, of whom Allan was the youngest boy. He was educated at King's S

Robert Morison Rowe was born on 23 February 1875, the son of an English father and a French mother, this latter fact having a permanent effect upon his subsequent career. His preclinical studies were done partly in Edinburgh and partly in Dublin, and for his clinical work he came to St Bartholomew's

Born in 1882 the son of an artist he was educated at Marlborough College and Guy's Hospital where he won the Treasurer's gold medal in clinical surgery in 1903, qualified in 1904 and served as house surgeon. He was a clinical assistant at the Evelina Hospital for Children. After taking the Fellow

Born on 9 January 1882 at the Cape of Good Hope, one of the sons of a naval surgeon who later became Director-General of the Navy Medical Service as Sir Henry Norbury KCB, he was educated at St Paul's and Merchant Taylors' Schools and St Thomas's Medical School which he entered in 1899. He had a dis