Born on 7 June 1908, the second son of John Gay French, FRCS and his wife, Elinor May, younger daughter of Francis Stafford Pipe-Wolferstan, of Statfold. His grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel John Gay French, IMS, was also a Fellow of the College (see *Plarr's Lives* 1930, 1, 422). Stanley Gay Fren

Clifford David Phillips Jones studied medicine at University College Hospital and during his student days played rugby for the Welsh International team as well as for his hospital. After qualifying in 1931 he was initially appointed house surgeon at University College Hospital and later at the Royal

Ivor Glyn Williams, the third son of Josiah Williams, a wholesale grocer, and of Ellen Williams (née Rowlands), was born at Pwllheli, North Wales, on 29 August 1907. He was educated at Pwllheli Grammar School and the University of London, before graduating in 1931 at the Middlesex Hospital where he