Born in 1864 he was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He was resident medical officer at Farringdon General Dispensary, and medical superintendent of the Mildmay Mission Hospital at Bethnal Green. He went to Colombo, Ceylon as a medical missionary about 1901,

Born on 11 June 1867, the second son of the Rev John Temperley Grey and Mary Jane McCorquodale, his wife. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Bristol Medical School where he won the Committee's gold medal of the Bristol General Hospital in 1889. He then studied at the University of Durham

Andrew Hallidie Smith, who between 1885 and 1890 took the surname of Hallidie, was born at Richmond, Surrey on 23 June 1862, the third child and second son of Archibald Smith, engineer, and his wife *née* Reece. He was educated at King's College School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Hall

Born on 27 June 1866 he was educated at King's College School and in 1884 won the Salters' university scholarship. He entered the medical department of King's College, London, in October 1884, won many prizes and the Sambrooke exhibition, and served as assistant demonstrator of physiology. In 1889 a

Somewhat above middle height, clean-shaven with prematurely white hair and of ascetic appearance, Cecil Beadles was unmarried and lived for his garden and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was so excessively shy that he was rarely seen even by his colleagues unless they went

Born at Brixton on 13 August 1866, eldest son and second of the seven children of John Bisdee Fawcett, of Lloyd's, and Ellen Hyslop, his wife. His father and mother both died when he was eleven, and the children were brought up by their uncle, Robert Grant, and his wife. He was educated at Dulwich a

Born on 24 October 1867, the only child of Stephen Yearsley and Joanna Bowring Chittenden, his wife. His father's father, James Yearsley, was a first cousin of the famous otologist of the same name (see P M Y's letter in *British Medical Journal* 12 March 1935, 1, 596). The family originated in York