Born at Bury in Lancashire on 26 July 1863 and educated at Shrewsbury School, which he entered in Michaelmas Term 1877 and left in 1881. He then proceeded to University College Hospital, London, where he filled the posts of house surgeon and obstetric assistant. He obtained the number of marks quali

Born at Blackburn on 21 January 1866, the second child and eldest son of Thomas Firth, cotton spinner and manufacturer, and Betty Fielden Lacy, his wife. He was educated privately and at Owens College, Manchester, before beginning his medical training at King's College and University College Hospita