Timbrell Fisher was born at Bristol on 1 November 1887 the second son of Canon W H Fisher. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol University, and St Bartholomew's Hospital qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1911. He was a house officer at Bristol General Hospital and demonstrator of surgic

Born in New Zealand in 1889, son of William Still Littlejohn, he was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne. His father become its headmaster in 1904 and was regarded as one of the great educationalists of his time. Proceeding to Ormond College, University of Melbourne after obtaining in 1906 a Un

William Wylie Rentoul was born on 2 December 1895 at Clonmel, Co Tipperary, Ireland. He was educated at Clonmel Grammar School and Queen's University, Belfast. During the first world war he served in the Army in France and attained the rank of Major, second in command of the King's Shropshire Light

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

Born in 1884, son of Francis Charles Bryan MRCS of Littlehampton, Sussex. He was educated at Westminster School and St Mary's Hospital, and held house appointments there and at Great Ormond Street. He spent several years in research, was demonstrator of bacteriology at Oxford, worked in Almroth Wrig