Born 4 March 1886, son of Hag Bayumi Abo el Saud. He received his medical education at the London Hospital and took the English Conjoint qualification in 1915. After his return to Egypt he was appointed to the staff of the Kasr el Aini Hospital, Cairo, on 15 November 1919, and became director of the

Born at Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 1888, the eldest son of P G Beyers. of Sunnyside, Pretoria. He was educated at Stellenbosch Boys' High School and Victoria College, where he read zoology under Robert Broom. He graduated in 1908, and deputized for Professor Broom for nine months during 1909. He

Born the eldest son of 12 children on 5 May 1892 at Meresborough House in the country near Rainham, Kent, Cecil Wakeley always looked upon himself as a countryman born and bred and would recall riding his own pony at the age of four. In 1904 he started attending King's School, Rochester, as a day bo

Born at Southsea, Hants on 12 December 1892, the son of Joseph Thomas Purkis, captain, RN, and Jessie Jane Bond, his wife. He was educated at Eltham College and at Guy's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to the ophthalmic and the ear, nose, and throat departments. He then served as medical office

Born at Oxford, 9 June 1891, eldest son of Richard Henry Anglin Whitelocke, FRCS, senior surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, and his wife Barbara Henry, eldest daughter of G L Reid, civil engineer, of Brighton. Hugh Whitelocke's third name was taken from his grandfather's home, Bulstrode Park, Westm

Alec Antony Lees was born at Walsall in 1890, and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1915. He had been studying at Cambridge and Birmingham, but interrupted the work for his degree to join the RAMC after holding a house appointment at the Birmingham General Hospital. He served with the 36th Gene

Born on 1 May 1893, the son of an Instructor Captain in the Royal Navy and his French wife, he was born at Brest and spent his infancy in Japan, with the result that he could speak Japanese before he could speak English. Educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and the Middlesex Hospital, he qualified

Daniel was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1915 and proceeding to the MD degree in 1918. He practised at 299 Boundary Street, Liverpool, and retired to Aigburth, Lancashire, where he died on 4 May 1965 aged 73.

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1915, and saw active service as a Royal Navy surgeon during the rest of the first world war. He then graduated at London University, proceeding to the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1923 and the English Fellowship in 1929. He

He was educated at University College Hospital and qualified during the first world war. He served as a temporary Captain in the RAMC and won the MC. After the war he held appointments at University College Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and then went into practice

Peter Wright, as he was known all over the world, was one of the kindest and gentlest members of his profession. Born on 3 June 1892, he qualified at University College Hospital in 1915 and proceeded to the FRCS in 1920 and MS London in 1921. As an extremely young medical officer he served in France

Arthur Hughes Southam was born in Manchester on 27 June 1888; both his father and his grandfather were surgeons to the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford graduating as BA in 1909. For his clinical training he returned to Manchester, qualifying as BM BCh in