Born about 1868, he was educated at Melbourne University. He came to England after qualifying, and took the Conjoint diplomas and the Fellowship within a month of each other in 1891. He returned to Australia, practising at 148 High Street, Malvern, Victoria, and later at 31 Collins Street, Melbourne

He was born at Birmingham in 1865 one of 3 sons of Thomas Furneaux Jordan FRCS. His grandfather had been a surgeon, his brother Bertram became a physician at Birmingham, and an uncle and his son were physicians there. He was educated at King Edward's School and at Queen's and Mason Colleges, where h