Born 13 October 1862, the second son of the Rev B G Luard, Rector of Birch, near Colchester, Essex, and Clara Isabella Sandford Bramston, his wife. Another son, Canon E P Luard, succeeded their father as Rector of Birch. He was educated at Malvern College, was a scholar of St Catherine's College, Ca

Born 26 October 1863 at Stogursey, Somerset, the second surviving son of Alfred Howse, MRCS (see the memoir of C B Howse, above). He was educated at Fulland's School, Taunton, and afterwards entered the London Hospital, where he served as house surgeon to E Hurry Fenwick. He went to New South Wales