Born on 24 June 1884 the eldest child of R T Richardson, MRCS, who practised at Trowbridge, Wilts, and Amelia Anne Tasker, his wife. He was educated at Epsom College and at the Leeds Medical School. He graduated at the University of London with distinction in pharmacology and honours in medicine. At

Born in 1884, son of Francis Charles Bryan MRCS of Littlehampton, Sussex. He was educated at Westminster School and St Mary's Hospital, and held house appointments there and at Great Ormond Street. He spent several years in research, was demonstrator of bacteriology at Oxford, worked in Almroth Wrig