Born on 24 December 1906 in Tyrwaun, Ystalyfera, Swansea, David Lincoln Lewis was the son of William James Lewis, a medical practitioner, and Constance Mary Adeney, whose father owned Swaine and Adeney, the shop in Piccadilly. His younger brother, Ronald Swaine Lewis (qv this vol) was also FRCS. He

Niblock was born on 12 September 1907 at Canford Cliffs, Bournemouth, the son of Lt Col William James Niblock, IMS, sometime Professor of Surgery at Madras Medical College. He came of a distinguished family of medical men, whose names appear in the family tree for 200 years: among them were Sir Edwa

Herbert Edward Harding was born in 1907. There is no record of his early education before he entered the London Hospital Medical College where he won a number of undergraduate prizes and qualified in 1931. After resident appointments at the London Hospital he completed the FRCS in 1933 to become sur

Harold Rodgers was Professor of Surgery at Queen's University, Belfast. He was born in Buldana, near Bombay, India, the third child and second son of Thomas Rivers Rodgers, a medical officer and prison governor, and Elizabeth Idee née Brinkworth, whose father was a civil servant. As a boy he became

The following obitiuary was published in volume eight of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: Theodore Schrire, nicknamed 'Toddy', was born on 6 November 1906 in Cape Town. He matriculated at the age of sixteen, afterwards attaining his MA from the University of Cape Town, where he received the medal

Lewis Philip Jameson Evans was born at Edgbaston, Birmingham on 2 June 1907, the son of John Jameson Evans, FRCS, a distinguished ophthalmic surgeon and lecturer in ophthalmology in Birmingham University; his mother was a daughter of the Rev Thomas Charles Edwards DD, first Principal of the Universi

John O'Connell was a consultant neurosurgeon at St Bartholomew's. He was born in Manchester on 16 September 1906, to Irish parents. His father, Thomas Henry O'Connell, was a civil servant. His mother was Catherine Mary née O'Sullivan. He was educated by the Jesuits at Clongowes and later at Wimbledo