Born at Antrim, Ireland on 28 February 1862 third son of William Jaques, a taxer, and his wife née Graves, he was educated privately before training at Liverpool Medical School. He transferred to King's College, London, qualified through the Conjoint Board, and served as house surgeon at King's Coll

Born at Middlesbrough on 16 June 1876 son of Robert Telford, accountant, of Withington and Mary Ann Davison his wife, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1897. He was an assistant surgeon

Born about 1878, he was educated at Guy's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and resident medical officer to the paying wards. He was senior clinical assistant to the Golden Square Throat Hospital, and went into general practice at Teddington. He worked there from 1904 to 1947. He planned an

Born 23 November 1874 the fourth child and second son of John Mortimer Hunt, a business man, and his wife, née Henderson. He was educated at Harrow, at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in the final school of physiology and worked for a year with Professor J S Haldane, and a

William Stewart Dickie was born in Glasgow on 10 December 1872. He began work as an office boy in an iron foundry at the age of 13, but when he was 15 he decided to go to sea and sailed as an apprentice in the four-master *Madagascar*. He took his second mate's certificate and his chief officer's ex

Born about 1877 at Purneah, India, son of Francis Cruise who had died before Richard entered Harrow in April 1890. He received his medical training at St Mary's Hospital. After qualifying in 1900 he specialized as an ophthalmologist, and served as senior clinical ophthalmic assistant at St Mary's an