Barbash was a foundation Scholar of St John's College, Cambridge, graduated with honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1917, and received his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was a house surgeon after qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1919. He took the Cambridge medi

Shankar Ramchandra Joglekar was born in Poona on 10 July 1894. His father, Rao Bahadur R N Joglekar was a civil servant for the Government of Bombay and his mother, Sitabai Joglekar, née Pendse, was the daughter of a civil servant. He was their third child and first son. He attended Poona High Schoo