Albert Davis was an obstetrician and pioneering neuro-gynaecologist. He born on 4 January 1904 into a Jewish family in Manchester, where he studied medicine and became resident at the Manchester Royal Infirmary to Sir Harry Platt and Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, who greatly influenced him. He soon de

George Bancroft-Livingston was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage. He was born in Ross, California, on 13 October 1920, one of two children of Henry Livingston, a diplomat, and Barbara née Bancroft. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, from th

Born at Pontefract on 12 September 1904, the son of a general practitioner, George Blomfield was educated at Malvern and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in the mechanical sciences tripos. Despite his gift for mathematics and mechanical science he was, after

Farquhar received his medical education at Birmingham, qualifying MB ChB there in 1938. After he obtained his Fellowship, he specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, holding junior and registrar posts at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital and at the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women. Later

Marjorie Olive Bennett was a general practitioner and gynaecologist. She was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on 23 July 1915. Her father, Reginald Stanley Dunster, was a headmaster, and her mother, Olivia Sextone, a headmistress. From Newport High School she won a state scholarship to Bristol Univer

William Stewart Campbell was born on 17 November 1907, the son of Sir John Campbell, a leader in gynaecology in Ulster. His mother was one of the earliest women graduates in medicine in Belfast. After a distinguished school career at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, in which he also found t