John Herbert Thompson was born on 2 April 1900. He was educated at Bootham, York, whence he proceeded to University College Hospital, London, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1923. After house appointments and obtaining the FRCS in 1928 he joined the Colonial Service and was posted as a surgi

Clifford Naunton Morgan was born at Penygraig, Glamorgan, on 20 December 1901, and was educated at the Royal Masonic School, Bushey, before entering University College Cardiff and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. After qualifying in 1923 and graduating the following year he held resident a

George Pitt was born in Marylebone, London, on 17 July 1898, the third child and elder son of George Newton Pitt, MD, FRCP, and Jane Elizabeth Heriot, a banker's daughter. After education at Leas Court, Folkestone, and Highgate School he served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery from 1916 to 191

The following was published in volume 7 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows John Lewin was born in London on 8 August 1901 and educated at Southend Grammar School and Guy's Hospital qualifying in 1923. He held house appointments at Guy's Hospital before being appointed resident surgical officer at Ly

Robert Claude Taylor was born in Hampstead on 9 May 1901, the eldest child of Edwin Claude Taylor MD, MS, FRCS (1981-1924), see *Lives of the Fellows*, Vol.2, p.386. He was educated at Heath Mount School in Hampstead and Leighton Park School, Reading, before entering University College for medical s

Reginald Keene was born in Islington, London, on 11 September 1897, the son of a chief administrative officer of the LCC Mental Hospitals' Department, and used to visit Oulton Broad on holiday as a child. A foundation scholar of Highgate Grammar School, he passed his first MB in 1915 but shortly aft