Born 17 September 1879 at Romsey, Hants, eldest child of George Maughan Footner, solicitor, and his wife, *née* Rammell. He was educated at Marlborough College, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and at St Thomas's Hospital where he won a university scholarship. He had a distinguished career in the med

Born on 5 April 1880 at Memphis, Tennessee, USA, the second of the three sons of Robert Woolfenden, cotton merchant, and Sarah Smith, his wife. He was educated at Bickerton House School, Birkdale, and then entered the Liverpool Medical School, where he had a brilliant career as an undergraduate, bec