Was educated at Ingleby School, at Birmingham Medical School, where he was prosector of anatomy, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. At the University of Durham he gained honours at the intermediate and final MB examinations. He returned to Birmingham on his appointment as house surgeon at the General

Born 23 May 1869 the youngest of the eleven children of John Farley Rutter, solicitor, of Mere, Wilts, and Hannah Player Tanner, his wife. He was educated at Sidcot School, Winscombe, after which he began his medical studies at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he took the first place in honours at the Uni