Fourness Henry Simmons was born in Watchet, Somerset. He changed his name in 1891. He was educated in Britain and at Edinburgh University, where he was Dunlop scholar 1883 and Buchanan scholar 1884 and took honours at his qualification. He served as junior assistant to the professor of midwifery and

Born in London on 5 March 1888, son of Walter Fowler FRCS 1858-1917, and grandson of Robert Fowler, a doctor. His parents emigrated to Victoria, Australia, in 1891, where Walter Fowler practised at Echuca and became superintendent of Bendigo Hospital. Robert was educated in Melbourne at Caulfield Gr