Mike Ward, a pioneering climber and expert on altitude medicine and physiology, and a member of the 1953 expedition team which made the first ascent of Everest, was a consultant surgeon in London’s East End. He was born in London on 26 March 1925, the son of Wilfred Arthur Ward, a civil servant in M

Born at Sandgate, Kent, on Dec 7th, 1850, the eighth child and fifth son of Thomas Dent. He was educated at Eton (1863-1869) and at Trinity College, Cambridge (1869-1873), where he took a 'poll' degree in 1873. He was made Magister Chirurgiae in 1899 in recognition of his eminence as a surgeon; he h

Born on 28 May 1926 in the Belgian Congo where his father Henry Julyan Hoyte MB BS was a medical missionary, he was educated at Sakeji School, Northern Rhodesia, Monckton Combe School, Somerset, King's College, London, and the Westminster Hospital, where his father and uncle had been students and wh

Noel Kirkman was born in Boothroydon, near Blackpool, on 11 March 1911, the son of William Harold Kirkman, the owner of a small wrought iron works, and Lavinia, née Fereday, one of whose ancestors was Samuel Day Fereday, a general surgeon in Dudley, Worcestershire (1800-1874). He was educated at Wes

Francis Younghusband (1938) summarised this life as follows: 'Somervell is no mean mountaineer: he is one of five who have reached the 28,000 feet level. He is no mean painter: his picture of Everest adorns the walls of the Royal Geographical Society's House. He is no mean musician: he has transcrib

Richard Stewart's career reminds us that in spite of all the advances in medical science the lives of the most dedicated doctors can still be cut short by disabling disease. He was born in Invercargill, New Zealand, on 17 November 1942, the son of Dr Lindsay Rutherford Stewart, a general practitione

James Dawson was born at Kilsyth, Glasgow, on 2 August 1898. No details of his early education are available, but after his first year as a medical student at Glasgow he volunteered for the Army. Having been in the Officer's Training Corps he was commissioned into the Lancashire Regiment and was in

Born on 1 September 1882, son of Thomas Hey JP of Colne and his wife Martha Jane Tatham, whose father was a solicitor there, Wilson Hey was educated at Burnley Grammar School and the University of Manchester, winning scholarships and prizes. He took his clinical training at the London Hospital, and

Charles Evans was born in Liverpool on 19 October 1918, the only child of Robert Charles Evans, a solicitor, and his wife Edith, née Lloyd Williams, a farmer's daughter. He was brought up largely by his mother in North Wales as his father was unfortunately killed in the closing stages of the first w

Born in South Australia in 1859 he was educated at Hahndorf College and graduated from the University of Adelaide. He then came to England, entered Queen's College, Birmingham, and acted as demonstrator of physiology at Mason's Science College in that city. After taking out postgraduate courses in D