Educated at the Pine Street Royal School of Medicine in Manchester, which was also known as Mr Turner’s School, and gained the Turner Scholarship in three successive years – 1868-1869, 1869-1870, and 1870-1871. He settled in the Ardwick District of Manchester, where he was in general practice until

Born in Hong Kong, Woo qualified from the Middlesex Hospital in 1913. He was particularly interested in gynaecology, and was house surgeon and assistant to Victor Bonney at the Middlesex and at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. During this time he designed the Reverdin-Woo needle. He served in a mi

Educated at Malvern College and at St Thomas's Hospital. After taking the Fellowship he engaged in active practice in Egypt and at the same time worked for the degrees of the University of London. As the subject of his MD thesis he selected "Bilharziosis in Women", and on this question he was able t

Born at 45 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, on May 1st, 1845, the son of Archibald Campbell Tait, of Dryden, a Guild Brother of Heriot's Hospital, and of Isabella Stewart Lawson, of Leven. From the age of 7 Lawson Tait was educated at Heriot's Hospital School, Edinburgh, until he entered the Universi

Born 1 May 1885 in London, son of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand and a former Prime Minister of the Dominion, and Ida Nantes, his wife. He was educated at the City of London School and in New Zealand at Balclutha, Robin Hood Bay and Otago Boys' High School, and after a year

Born in 1895 one of the four sons of Sir John Sandeman Allen (1865-1935), general manager and afterwards vice-chairman of the Union Marine Insurance Company and MP for the West Derby division of Liverpool; his mother was Amy Spencer, he was educated at Gresham's School and King's College, Cambridge,

Born on December 30th, 1810, at Sandgate, Kent, the son of Captain Hodder, RN. He entered the Navy as midshipman in 1822 under his father, but stayed on board only a year. He then went to school in Guernsey and at St Servans, France. He was next a pupil for five years of Mr Amesbury in London. Havin

Born on September 27th 1840, at Castle Street, Holborn. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, where his father was master of the modern side. He entered the school early in 1854, and left in 1855 to be apprenticed to Josiah Pritchard, a surgeon in Loughborough. He then served as an unquali

Born 15 July 1870 at Hall Bower, Denby Dale, near Huddersfield, third child and second son of Joshua Oldfield and Emma Davison, his wife. He was educated at a Grammar School and Leeds Medical School, taking the Conjoint qualification in 1893 and the London MB in 1895 BS in 1896. He proceeded to the

Born on 8 May 1861 at Cumnock, Ayrshire, the eldest child and only son of James Wilson, post office mail contractor, and his wife Agnes Vallance. He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, University College, London, which he entered in 1878, and University College Hospital. He was a contempor

Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 16 March 1881, the eldest child of Henry Septimus Miller, a timber merchant, and Annie Elizabeth Potts, his wife. His childhood was spent in Canada, but his parents came back in 1893 and he was educated in London at William Ellis's school and Guy's Hospital, where he won

Joseph Taylor was a former medical missionary in Tanzania. He was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928. In 1938 his parents brought him and his twin brother to England as the Nazis marched into Czechoslovakia. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's. After qualifying, he made ophthalmology his career,