Robert John McNeill Love was born in Devonport on 2 May 1891. His father, Joseph Boyd Love, JP, was an Ulsterman who came to England virtually penniless though he eventually built up a substantial and highly successful warehousing firm in Plymouth, and was mayor of that city at the time of Robert's

Vaman Raghunath Mirajkar was born on 13 October 1887 in Mangalore where he received his early education, proceeding to the Grant Medical College where he graduated MB BS in the University of Bombay in 1913. He then became house surgeon to Colonel Street, Professor of Surgery in Bombay, and served in

William Alexander Hogg McKerrow was educated at Aberdeen University where he graduated MB ChB with first class honours in 1906. He worked as a junior demonstrator of anatomy at the Marischal College Aberdeen, and was a house physician at the Royal Northern Hospital, and later a resident surgical off

Alberto Henrique Ferreira Bizarro studied medicine at Lisbon, Paris, Berlin and University College, London. He passed the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1920. He became surgeon to the Hospital of St Francisco in Oporto, Portugal and was there in 1964 when he disappears from our recor

Laurence Ingle was born in Cambridge in 1892, the son of Arnold Clarkson Ingle, a general practitioner who was also physician to the Leys School. Laurence went to the Leys, and then to King's College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1909 as an Exhibitioner. He was devoted to music and to rowing, beco

Arthur Chance was born in Dublin on 15 November 1889, the third son of Sir Arthur Chance, past President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1904 and 1905 and surgeon to the Marta Hospitals, and Martha, née Ronnaey. He was educated in Kildare and the Trinity College, Dublin. As a student

Stanley Samuel Beare was born on 20 June 1890 at Newton Abbot, Devon, the son of Samuel Beare an ironmonger and engineer, and Alice Austin Beer, whose father was a journalist and Crimean War veteran. He was educated at Newton Abbot Grammar School and Strand School, King's College, London. In 1909 he

Born at Godalming on 8 November 1889, the elder son of the Rev William Francis Romanis, Preacher of the Charterhouse, and Annie Ellen Cowie, he was educated at Charterhouse where he was a scholar and became head of the school. Going up to Trinity College, Cambridge as a mathematical scholar he obtai

Gervas Charles Wells-Cole, the eldest son of Gervas Frederick Wells-Cole, a farmer, was born in Lincoln on 5 May 1889. His mother, Mary Beatrice, who died aged 98, was a daughter of Charles Brook, FRCS, who himself survived to the age of 91. After education at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, and Repto