Born 14 September 1879, the fourth child and third son of Peter Davies, farmer, and Elizabeth, his wife. He was educated at Llangeitho and Tregaron County School, Cardiganshire and took his medical training at the London Hospital, where he won scholarships in anatomy and physiology 1906 and in patho

Born 11 October 1882, the third child and only son of Samuel Buckley, FRCS, consulting physician to the Clinical (now the Northern) Hospital for Diseases of Women and Children, Manchester, and his wife, Florence Woolley. He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, and took first-class h