Born 9 August 1866 at Shenfield, Essex, the son of Matthew Warton Johnson, merchant, and Jessie Bridges, his wife. He was educated at Tonbridge School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house physician. Johnson spent his working life as a medical missionary in the service of the Churc

Born 6 March 1869, sixth of the eleven children of Thomas Bevan Rake, MRCS 1848, of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, and his wife, *née* Neave. He was educated at Queenswood College and at Guy's Hospital, where he won an entrance scholarship and the Sands-Cox scholarship in physiology, and was elected pres

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

Born on 3 March 1866, the son of the Rev John Box and his wife Sarah Bray. He was educated at Dulwich College, and started work in business in the City. Finding this uncongenial he entered St Thomas's Hospital medical school, where his student career was brilliant. He took honours in physiology in 1

Born 4 December 1867, fourth of seven sons of George Lawson, FRCS, and Mary, his wife, daughter of William Thomson, MD, surgeon in the Indian Medical Service (Crawford's *Roll of the IMS*, Bengal list, No 965). George Lawson had been invalided home from the Crimea, and later became surgeon to the Mi