Charles Burgess, known as Terence, was born in Hoylake, the Wirral, Cheshire, on 10 January 1913, into a medical family. His father, Charles Herbert Burgess, was a general practitioner, as was his grandfather, Robert Burgess. His mother was Meta Jeanette née Leitch. Terence was educated at Haileybur

John Matheson was a former professor of military surgery at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, London. He was born in Gibraltar on 6 August 1912, the son of John Matheson, the then manager of the Eastern Telegraph station, and Nina. The family later moved on to Malta and then to Port Said. Jo

Arnold Gourevitch was a consultant surgeon in Birmingham. He was born in Paris on 24 February 1914, the son of Russian Jewish émigrés. At the outbreak of the first world war his parents fled to England, eventually settling in Birmingham. His father, Mendel, later qualified as a doctor and became a g

Born on 4 September 1880 eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Samuel Johnson (1846-99), Medical Officer of Health for Stoke-on-Trent and Julia his wife, daughter of James Webb. Mrs Johnson died only in 1931; her children had all adopted her maiden surname, Webb, before their father's name. Dr

Robert Debenham, or 'Deb' as he was universally known, was born in Presteigne, Radnorshire, on 3 January 1902, the son of Horace Alan Debenham, a general practitioner, and his wife Maud Constance, who was the daughter of a GP. After preliminary schooling at Brockhurst he was educated at Malvern Coll

Bob Lamming was born in Hull on 6 December 1910, the son of Robert Sydney Lamming, a timber merchant's clerk, and Clara Gertrude Redfearn, a solicitor's daughter. He was educated at Bridlington School, Yorkshire, and Leeds University, where he won pre-clinical and clinical scholarships, and the Will

Born 19 August 1876, elder son of John William Collinson, wool merchant of Halifax, and Frances Whiteley, his wife. He was educated at the Quaker schools at Ackworth and Bootham, and at the Yorkshire College Medical School at Leeds. He received his clinical training at the Leeds General Infirmary, w

Born in London on 14 August 1867, eldest child of William Greenwood Sutcliffe, MRCS 1865, of 2 Ashville Place, Battersea Park, and Mary Sophia Pottle, his wife. He was educated at the City of London School and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he won the Cheselden medal and was house surgeon. After ser

Born 12 June 1876 at 23 Portland Square, Carlisle, the eldest son of. Roderick Maclaren, MD, surgeon to the Cumberland Infirmary, and Isabella Emma Campbell, his wife. He was educated at Rugby when Dr Percival was headmaster, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge as a pensioner on 25 June 1894. He

Born at Malmesbury, Wiltshire on 13 July 1867 the second son of Colonel J R Luce DL, JP and Mary Visger his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1889, and graduated in medicine in 1893. He

Born on 18 January 1865, the eldest child of John Heygate Vernon, an architect, and Caroline Miller, his wife. He was educated at Mill Hill School and at St George's Hospital, where he gained the W Brown exhibition, serving as house surgeon, demonstrator of anatomy and physiology, and clinical assis

Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 11 January 1863, the fifth son and eighth child of Edward Richardson and his wife, *née* Hutton. His father, an iron and steel merchant and paper manufacturer, lived afterwards at Cotfield House, Gateshead-on-Tyne. W G Richardson was educated at Leys School, Cambridge, w