Born on 20 January 1865 at Spencer Road, Battersea, the second son and second child of Thomas Reid Miller, a staff officer in the Army, and Ellen Louise Turner, his wife. He was educated at Wellington College and at the London Hospital, where he gained the Buxton scholarship and acted as house surge

Born at Tattenhall, Cheshire on 4 June 1868 the fourth son of the Rev J Watkins-Pitchford, Vicar of St Jude's, Southwark, and his wife Louisa Read of Westbury, Wilts, he was educated at St Olave's Grammar School, Southwark and St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. By the time he to