Born at Sydenham, Kent, the only son of William Adair McDougall, Captain in the 88th Regiment. His mother, whose maiden name was Gell, had strong evangelical principles. McDougall was educated at Malta, where his father's regiment was quartered, and attended the hospitals at Valetta. He entered as a

Born 6 December 1842, son of James Moncrieff Arnott, professor of surgery at King's College, London, and President of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1850 and 1859, Henry Arnott was educated at University College School and at University College, London. He held the post of house surgeon and reside

James received his medical education at Bristol University, graduating MB ChB there in 1971, gained the DObst RCOG in 1974 and the FRCS in 1977. After qualification he was registrar in surgery at Southmead Hospital and later clinical fellow in paediatric surgery at Bristol Children's Hospital, and w

William Harold Alfred Dodd, the eldest of three sons and second of five children of Alfred Leward Dodd and Annie Elizabeth (née Marshall), was born at Crewe, Cheshire, on 13 March 1899. He was educated at St Michael's Church School, Coppenhall, Crewe, and at Crewe Grammar School. From September 1917