Born on 16 February 1869 at Eccles, near Manchester, the first child of Thomas Clegg, agent, and Elizabeth Gray, his wife. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at the Victoria University where he graduated MB with honours in 1893, having taken the Conjoint qualification in 1891. Transfer

Born 15 January 1869 in Trinidad and educated at Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain, of which his father William Miles, BA Oxford JP, was head master; his mother, Amelia Sarah Bailey, was of Irish descent. He was their only son. He took his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he