Born on 8 March 1906 in Bristol, where he spent practically the whole of his life, he was educated, and received his medical training. After qualifying in 1929 with the degrees of London University he left Bristol for a period of postgraduate training in Liverpool and Oxford, but, having been admitt

Frank Wild Holdsworth was born in Bradford on 22 September 1904, and was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge, proceeding to St George's Hospital in 1926. He became a Fellow of the College in 1930, and obtained the Cambridge degrees of MB BCh in 1934 and MCh in 1935.

Born at The Close, Stratton St Margaret, near Swindon on 29 March 1906 the only son and eldest of the three children of E Francis Glynn, major, Royal Field Artillery (TF) and Phyllis Anne, his wife, daughter of Philip Glynn Messent, chief engineer to the River Tyne Commissioners. He was educated at

Bob Young was a distinguished London orthopaedic surgeon. Born on 6 October 1903, he was educated at Sherborne and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, before going to St Thomas's for his clinical training. After junior posts, he became an orthopaedic registrar and chief assistant to the orthopaedic departm

Norman Wynne Roberts, the second son of Dr Thomas Roberts, a general practitioner and later a medical officer of health, and of Elizabeth Roberts (née Thomas), was born at Caernarvon, North Wales, on 2 July 1907. He was educated at Grove Park Grammar School, Wrexham, and at Liverpool University. Aft