An accomplished and successful obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dame Josephine was also known to the wider world for her devotion to social and educational reform, and was seen by many as an exemplar for the role of professional women in modern society. Josephine Barnes, happily known to her famil

Kathleen Robinson was noted for her serenity, warm charm, wisdom and skill. These characteristics must have been largely inherited, but were nurtured in a happy family life that started on 25 May 1911 in Eccles, near Manchester. She was the third of five children, her father being a professional eng

Wynn-Williams was born on 10 August 1911 at Middlesbrough, the son of William, a general practitioner and his wife Jane Anderson, née Brymer. He was educated at Rossall School and King's College London, where he won the Hughes prize for anatomy and Chadwick prize for clinical surgery, before complet

John Clifford Newbold was born in Lincoln on 21 August 1911, the son of John Davidson Newbold and Annie Ethel Allpress Laws. He was educated at Bishop Stortford College, where he became head of the School and captain of swimming and rugby football. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obt

Richard Braithwaite Keevil Rickford, the first of similar twins of Leslie Thomas Rickford, a banker, and Gladys Georgina Rickford (née Keevil), was born on 1 June 1914, at Hampstead. He was educated at The Gables, Bexhill-on-Sea, and then at the junior and senior schools of Weymouth College, Dors