Lawrence Dulake was born in Hampstead on 3 January 1901 the eldest son of William and Emma, née Prestoe, both of whom lost their fathers at the age of five. William was a self-made man and an authority on housing the working class, becoming chairman of Rowton Houses (now hotels) and the Artisans, La

Frederick William Widgery was born on 11 April 1896, in Exeter, the third child of Frederick John Widgery, the artist and his wife Bertha, née Lunt. He was educated at Exeter School and studied medicine at Guy's where it is thought that he won a Gold Medal and was appointed out-patients officer. He

John Hosford was born in London on 24 July 1900, the son of Benjamin Hosford, a medical practitioner in Hornsey, Essex, and his wife Anne, née Haines. He came from a remarkable medical family, three brothers, two cousins and two uncles all being doctors. He was educated at Highgate School and St Bar

Fred Hunt was born at Ilkeston, Derbyshire, on 5 March 1899, the son of John Hunt, a schoolmaster, and his wife Clara, née Beardsley, who had seven children. He was educated at the Elementary School and the County Secondary School in Ilkeston, and entered the London Hospital Medical College in 1916,

Philip Reginald Hawe was born at Callan, Co Kilkenny, Eire, in 1900. The family moved to Liverpool in 1905 and as a result he was educated there at the Catholic Institute in Hope Street. In his senior year he was awarded the Robert Gee Scholarship in medicine and the John Rankin Scholarship in engin

Born in January 1895, the son of Dr J Wasdale Hudson, he was educated at Epsom College. Both his father and grandfather were Middlesex men and he too, entered Middlesex Hospital, in 1913. More recently his son maintained the tradition and is now lecturer in physiology in the Medical School. He to

David Howard Patey was born in 1899 in Monmouth, the eldest of three children. His father was a West Country man and his mother Welsh. He went to school in Llandovery, where an iron regimen of rugby football and the classics prevailed, and came to Middlesex Hospital for his preclinical and clinical

Born on 18 July 1899, he was educated at Wellington College and had a short period in the Army in the latter part of the first world war. He then entered the medical school of St Thomas's Hospital for his clinical training, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1923. After appointment as a casualt

Trevor Meyrick Thomas was born at Bangor, Caernarvonshire, on 7 July 1898, the son of John Edward Thomas MD, a general practitioner surgeon. His mother, Mary, née Rowlands, was the daughter of a farmer, and his maternal great-uncle was John Rowlands who qualified MRCS in 1832. He was educated at

Louis Amos Bennett was born in Nelson, New Zealand, on 16 October 1896. His father was John Bennett, farmer and storekeeper and his mother was Annie, née Ryde. He was educated at Central School, Nelson and Nelson College where he was awarded the junior and senior national scholarships and the Fell S

Darryl Corry was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 10 February 1898, the son of William, a graduate of Belfast and also a surgeon, and his wife Lily Anne, née Meakin. His younger brother, a member of this College, became a general practitioner in Binnaway in Australia and was awarded the MBE for his

Eric Coldrey was born in London on 13 April 1901, the son of Arthur Algernon Coldrey and his wife, Florence, née Shearsmith. He was educated at the Tollington School in London and received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was Brackenbury and Baly Scholar. He became a house