Born on 18 March 1878 at Streatham Hill, London, the only son of John Taylor, wine merchant of Dean Street, Tooley Street, London Bridge and Alice Miller Gordon daughter of William Gordon, stockbroker of Union Street, Aberdeen; he and his sister were taken by their mother to Aberdeen when their fath

Born at Simla, 6 June 1879, son of Colonel J Goldie. He was educated at Charterhouse 1892-96 and then passed into Sandhurst, as it was intended that he should enter the army. Disqualified on account of defective vision, he went to St Mary's Hospital where he served as house surgeon and house physici

Studied at the University of Liverpool, and in 1903 was House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary. During 1904 and 1905 he was Gee Fellow, Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy, Holt Fellow and Demonstrator of Pathology. In 1905 he joined the Indian Medical Service and was appointed to the 51st Sikhs in the Fr

Born at Sandford House, Highbury, New Park, London on 30 November 1870, the tenth child and sixth son of John Henry Hewer, MRCS, LSA 1852, and Annie Langton his wife, sister of John Langton, FRCS. There were eleven children of the marriage, and the seven brothers entered the medical profession. Ceci

Educated at Edinburgh University he qualified in 1905, and took the English Conjoint diplomas in 1908. He went then to New Zealand, but returned and took the Fellowship at the end of 1910. He practised in South London, and joined the RAMC in August 1914 when war broke out. He was promoted captain on

Born 10 March 1881 at Hinckley, Leicestershire, the second child and only son of Edward Simpson, a schoolmaster, and Charlotte McCann, his wife. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar, and took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos,

George Bell was born at Shelford, Victoria, on 10 July 1882. He was the eldest of the large family of Lewis and Annie Bell (née Armstrong), who were among the early pioneering pastoralists of south-western New South Wales. From Scots College, Sydney where he was dux and captain, as well as playing c

Born in London 15 September 1863, the eldest child of Raymond Johnson and his wife Barbara Wells. He was educated at Argyll College, Holland Park and at University College, London, where he won an entrance exhibition in 1881. He took his clinical training at University College Hospital and during th

Born at Neath, Glamorganshire on 6 January 1872, the second son of Samuel Evans, a master ironmonger, and his wife, Sarah Ann Woolacott; Samuel Evans served as High Constable of Neath. A H Evans was educated at Neath Proprietary School and the Westminster Hospital, which he entered with a scholarshi

Younger son of the Rev R C Heslop, of Wakefield, Yorkshire; born on March 5th, 1880, and educated at St Thomas's Hospital and Durham University. He served as House Surgeon at the Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury, at the Durham County Hospital, and as Clinical Assistant at All Saints' Hospital for Genito-

Born at Dewsbury, Yorkshire, the second child and second son of Benjamin Hepworth, woollen manufacturer, and his wife, *née* Haley. He was educated at the Wheelwright Grammar School, Dewsbury, and won a scholarship at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sci

The seventh son and youngest (eleventh) child of John Henry Hewer, MRCS (see the preceding memoir of C M Hewer), he was born on 7 October 1875. He was educated at University College School and from there proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was secretary and vice-president of the Abernet