Born in London on 8 March 1889 the only child of John Prime Tanner and his wife Margaret Baxter James, he was educated at Roan School, Birkbeck College, the Royal (now Imperial) College of Science, and at Guy's Hospital. He originally intended to be a dentist, but after distinguishing himself in the

Born 27 March 1890, the elder of the two sons of Reginald Treacher Bowden, MRCS 1884, MD Durham 1887, and his wife, *née* Campbell. He was educated at Rochester Grammar School and the London Hospital. He qualified in 1913, and served as pathological assistant and house surgeon; he was also house sur

He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying a year before the first world war broke out and proceeding to the Fellowship six years later, when he had finished his war service. He settled in practice at Johannesburg, first at Chudleigh Buildings and later

John Whigham was born in Brook Street, London, and educated at Westminster City School, where he won the gold medal as the best pupil of his year and a scholarship to St Mary's Hospital. He qualified in 1913 at the age of 21. He joined the East Lancashire Regiment at the outbreak of the first wor

Born at Bristol on 30 May 1888, the second son and youngest child of Frederick George Salisbury, solicitor, and his wife, *née* Shaw. He was educated at Wycliffe College, Gloucester, at the University of Bristol, and at the London and St Thomas's Hospitals. He served as resident medical officer at Q

Born 1 November 1889 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, the fifth child and fourth son of Ralph Hindmarsh, house and estate agent, and his wife, *née* Daglish. He was educated at Newcastle Royal Grammar School and Newcastle Medical School, graduating with honours in 1911. At the Royal Victoria Infirmary he was h

Second son of John James Street Driberg and Amy Mary Irving Bell, his wife, of Uckfield Lodge, Crowborough, he qualified from the London Hospital where he was surgical registrar and first assistant in the surgical unit and became an assistant surgeon. He served in the RAMC during the war of 1914-18,

Gerald Thomas Mullally was born on 31 October 1887 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, whither his father, William Mullally, MD, who had been in family practice in Tipperary, had emigrated, and where he died of acute appendicitis with peritonitis when young, Gerald being 7 years old at that time. H

Norman Lake was born in Plymouth in July 1888. He had a brilliant undergraduate career in the University of London, taking a BSc degree with honours in anatomy and morphology, and also honours in anatomy and physiology in the second MB, and passing the final MB BS in 1910. Next year he won the gold

Geoffrey Langdon Keynes was born at Harvey Rd, Cambridge, on 25 March 1887, the third child and second son of Dr John Neville Keynes, ScD, the registrar of Cambridge University, and of Florence Ada Keynes, a daughter of Dr John Brown, pastor of the Bunyan (Congregational) Meeting in Bedford. Geoffre

Leslie Norman Reece was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 1 February, 1880. He was the fourth son of William Reece, a pioneer and importer. He attended Nelson College in New Zealand and then came to England to study medicine at St Thomas's. There he became house surgeon and resident assistant su

Sidney Bertram Radley was born on 18 September 1888 and received his medical education at Manchester University and St Bartholomew's Hospital, graduating in London with honours and a distinction in medicine in 1911, and in Manchester with second-class honours in the same year. In 1913 he took both t