Born at Oldham, the son of James Whitehead, who had a great local reputation as a herbalist and dealer in simples. James, after working as a boy in a cotton mill, attended the Marsden Street School of Medicine in Manchester and was apprenticed first to Mr Clough, of Lever Street, and afterwards to W

Studied in Dublin at the Royal College of Surgeons and at the Meath Hospital. He practised successively at Ashley, Staffordshire, where he was Union Medical Officer; at Newcastle in the same county; at 17 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin; at 87 Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, London, W; and at 133 Rathgar

Charles Halstead was born in Auckland on 11 September 1913. His father, Regement Dines Halstead, was company manager of the NZ Union Shipping Company, and his mother was Ivy Davies, née MacNab. He went to school at Timaru Boys' High School, and then to Otago Medical School. He held junior posts in D

John Woodward Horsley was born in Auckland in 1906. His father, Arthur Horsley, was a chemist in downtown Auckland at the turn of the century. John used to say that he and his mother, Alice, spanned 100 years of medical practice as she was the third woman to graduate from Otago Medical School and th