Born 14 May 1878 at Christchurch, New Zealand, the seventh child and fifth son of Michael O'Brien, who owned a boot-factory there, and his wife Bridget Anne Quinn. He was educated at Christchurch Boys High School, and come to England to take his medical training at Guy's Hospital, where he served as

Born 5 September 1881 at Trinidad, British West Indies, third son of Eugene Simon Giuseppi, planter, and Adela Coryat, his wife. He was educated at St Mary's College, Trinidad, and entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with a Jeaffreson exhibition in 1900; he won a junior scholarship 190

Son of Henry and Elizabeth Bott, he was born on 22 August 1882. He was educated privately and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he acted as house surgeon during the year 1905-06. On 1 September 1906 he was gazetted lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service. On 1 September 1909 he was promot

Born 17 January 1881 at Womersley vicarage near Pontefract, the seventh child and fifth son of the Rev Prebendary Joseph Henry Brierley and his wife Ellen, daughter of T P Teale (1801-67) FRCS 1843, the well-known Leeds surgeon, and sister of T Pridgin Teale (1831-1923) FRCS 1857, the hygienist, and

Born 31 August 1879, the eldest son of Francis Formby Back of Harrow Weald, proprietor of *The Egyptian Gazette*. He won classical scholarships at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1901 with second-class honours in natural science. He distinguished himself at row

Born on 26 September 1881, the fifth child and only son of John Mead, wharfinger, and Emily Clarke his wife, he was educated at Berkhamstead School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Lawrence scholarship and served as ophthalmic house surgeon and intern midwifery assistant. After a long

Born at Sao Paulo, Brazil, on 10 September 1880, the second son of Richard Gray, railway engineer, of Sao Paulo, and Ellen Tyrrell, his wife. He was admitted to St Paul's School, London as a capitation scholar in 1894, was transferred to Foundationers in September 1896, and left from Science VII in

Born at West Hampstead, 29 June 1881, fourth child and second son of Walpole Clarke, of the Bank of England, and his wife,* née* Gurney. He was educated at University College School, and took his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He was then senior hous

Born at Plymouth, 4 February 1884, the second child and elder son of Henry Oram, afterwards Engineer Vice-Admiral, KCB, FRS, and Emily Kate, daughter of J Bardens, his wife. E H B Oram was educated at Dulwich College and entered St George's Hospital Medical School on 1 October 1900. He also studied

Born in Tasmania in 1880, he was taken to New Zealand as an infant of a week old by his father, a schoolteacher, who settled at Waikowaiti in North Otago, and in due course he entered Otago University where he graduated in medicine and science and then came to England, becoming one of the first New

Thomas McPherson was born in Stratford, Ontario on 1 July 1880, and graduated from McGill University in Arts in 1901 and in Medicine in 1903. He then came to England and obtained the Conjoint Diploma in 1905, and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1907. On his return to Canada in 191

Born at Rochdale on 29 January 1880 the eldest of the three sons of Thomas Talbot, confectioner, and Amelia Maden his wife; all three brothers became medical men; he was at school at Whalley, Lancashire, and won the junior and senior Platt exhibitions in physiology at Owens College, Manchester. He g