Son of the Rev J H Hill, Rector of Cranoe, Leicestershire ; educated at Guy's Hospital and then became House Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital. He continued in the service of the hospital, and after seven years was elected Surgeon. He was one of the most energetic and hard-working hospital surgeons

Educated at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was a prizeman in chemistry, house surgeon, house physician, and demonstrator of anatomy. For a short time he was surgeon to the Western General Dispensary, and then assistant surgeon to the North-west London Hospital and to the City Orthopaedic Hospital.

John Warrington Haward (pronounced Hayward) was born on November 18th, 1841, the youngest of ten surviving children of James Haward, of Great Baddow, Essex, and grand-nephew of Francis Haward (1759-1797), engraver (*Dict Nat Biog*). He entered St George's Hospital in October, 1860, gained the Willia

Born on 20 March 1872, the third child and second son of William George Pearson, civil engineer, and his wife Emma Hind, he was educated at University College School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Harvey prize and served as house surgeon and ophthalmic house surgeon. He graduated in

Born 10 September 1861 at Pensarn, Llandyssul, Cardigan, the eldest child of Evan Thomas, farmer, and Mary Lewis, his wife. He was educated at a small private school at Llandyssul under the headmastership of Gwilym Marlais, and afterwards entered the London Hospital Medical School. He won the Hutchi

Born on 12 March 1887 the son of Alexander Noble and Margaret Paterson his wife, he was educated at Edinburgh University and University College, London. He held resident posts at Leith, Greenwich, and Queen Charlotte's Hospital, and served in France during the first world war. He took the Fellowship

Born in 1875, from 1904 to 1908 he was assistant to Professor C F A Koch at the University Surgical Clinic, Utrecht, after which he was lecturer in operative surgery until 1913. Refusing an invitation to become Professor of Anatomy, he went to Rotterdam as surgeon at Coolsingel Hospital. Here he had

Robert Jones was born at Rhyl on 28 June 1858, the son of Robert Jones and Mary Hughes, his wife. He was educated at a small private school, at Sydenham College, and at the Liverpool School of Medicine. Even before he qualified he acted as assistant to his maternal uncle, Owen Thomas, the inventor o

Third child and second son of William Blackstock, gentleman, and Kate Anthony, his wife, he was born at 3 Cole Street, Birkenhead on 13 January 1895. He was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate High School and at King's College Hospital, London, where he was house physician, children's house physici

Born on 5 April 1880 at Memphis, Tennessee, USA, the second of the three sons of Robert Woolfenden, cotton merchant, and Sarah Smith, his wife. He was educated at Bickerton House School, Birkdale, and then entered the Liverpool Medical School, where he had a brilliant career as an undergraduate, bec

Born on 4 July 1890 at West Hartlepool, Durham, where his father Thomas George Ainsley (MRCS 1877, MD Durham) was in practice. His mother's maiden name was Hill. He was educated at Malvern College, at Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1

Puspanathan Sadasivan Vaithilingam was born in Durban, on 19 September 1927, the eldest son in a family of eight brothers and one sister. His father, Sadasivan Vaithilingam, was a successful farmer, and his mother was Pappathee, née Reddy. After schooling at Sastri College he emigrated to Scotland i