Born on 26 April 1867, son of Henry Burden MD, MRCS of Belfast, pathologist to the Royal Hospital and President of the Ulster Medical Society who died on 18 February 1893, he was educated at home, and entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1886. He won the William Tite scholarship in 1887, a

Born in London on 20 October 1866, second child and eldest son of Paul Augustus Hepburn, member of a firm of tanners, and Mary his wife, daughter of Henry John Langton. Mrs Hepburn's youngest brother was John Langton, surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital. P A Hepburn was the eldest son of his parent