Born at Glasgow, 10 March 1867, the first surviving child of the Rev Hugh Sinclair Paterson, a minister of the Free Kirk of Scotland, who was admitted a Doctor of Medicine by the University of Glasgow in 1863, and Katherine Maria Anderson, his wife. He was educated at King's College, London, at Laus

Born on 24 January 1864 the eldest son of (Sir) Thomas Smith FRCS, who became Assistant Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital a month later and was afterwards Consulting Surgeon and a Governor, was Vice-president of the College in 1887-8 and 1890-91, and was created a Baronet, of Stratford Place, in