Born 26 September 1887 at Allepy, Travancore, South India, the third child and only son, in a family of four, of the Rev Clement Alfred Neve, clerk in Holy Orders, and his wife, a sister of Sir Frederick Treves, FRCS. He was educated at St Michael's School, Limpsfield, and at Repton. He entered Rept

Robert Anstruther Ramsay was born in Montreal on 18 February 1887, his forebears having emigrated to Canada from Aberdeenshire in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He went to school in Canada, the USA and Switzerland and then to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where in 1908 he obtain

Stanley Ritson began his medical training at King's College, London, where he took his BSc with honours in physiology in 1909 and was senior demonstrator in anatomy. His clinical years were spent at St Thomas's Hospital, from which he took the Conjoint qualification in 1911. He was academically gift

John Hamilton Barclay was born on 19 January 1887 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the son of John Cairns Barclay and his wife Janet, née Hamilton. He started his career in 1906 at the newly-opened Royal Victoria Infirmary, graduating MB BS with honours in 1911 and obtaining the MRCS LRCP in the same year. A

Robert Kennon was born on February 25, 1889 in Warrington, Lancashire, the son of Robert Kennon, a company secretary and his wife Ann, née Allen. He was educated at Boteler Grammar School, Warrington, and at Liverpool University where he was Tate and Gree Scholar. After qualifying MRCS, LRCP and MB,

John Morley was the last of a line of distinguished part-time Professors of Surgery in Manchester. Born on 10 October 1885, the son of the Reverend J S Morley, MA, schoolmaster and clergyman, he was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and Manchester University, where he graduated MB ChB with firs

Born at Llanelly, Carmarthenshire on 8 November 1885 the fifth child and second son of John Wade, chemist, and his wife née Williams, he was educated at Llanelly County School and the University College of South Wales, Cardiff and at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was house surgeon. After taking t

Born about 1888, C V Anderson qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1911 from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, where he was Tite Scholar in 1907, won the Treasurer's Gold Medal in 1911, was elected Beaney Scholar in 1912, and held house appointments. He took the Fellowship in 1913 and migrat

Edward G Slesinger was steadfastly a Guy's man working for its medical school and hospital for nearly 60 years. The only break in this period of service was during the first world war when he served as temporary Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy being mentioned in despatches, awarded the OBE in 1

Born on 26 January 1889 son of Edward Ingram Taylor and Margaret Boole, he was educated at University College School, University College and University College Hospital, where he qualified in November 1911 with the Conjoint Diploma, following this up with the qualifying degrees of London University

Howard Bullock combined a distinguished academic career with great prowess on the sports field. At school he had been an all-round athlete but when he went to Sydney University he decided to concentrate on football and, as one of his friends commented 'threw himself into this with the enthusiasm and

Educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was a house surgeon. During the first world war he served as a Captain RAMC. He practised in Calcutta between the wars, where he was surgeon superintendent of the Marwari Hindu Hospital. He retired to Byfleet, Surrey, where he died suddenly on 27 July 19