Born 31 March 1869 at South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia, the fifth child and third son of George Horace Hayes, a mill owner, and Anna Hall his wife. He was educated at the Church of England Grammar School and at the University of Melbourne, and then came back to England and took his medical training

Born on 1 December 1868 at 1 Welclose Place, Blackman Square, Leeds, the elder son and third child of Alfred Whitehead, cloth manufacturer, and Elizabeth Longley, his wife. He was educated at the Leeds Grammar School, at the Yorkshire College, and at the Leeds School of Medicine. He served as house

Born at Bath on 3 August 1869, the only son of Cyril J Wood, journalist, and his wife, *née* Candy. Educated at Bath and at the University of Bristol, his main interests were devoted at first to pathology but, influenced by F Richardson Cross, he soon turned to ophthalmology. He was appointed surgeo

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

Born 22 March 1867 at Hillside, Dowlais, Glamorgan, the second child and eldest son of Pearson Robert Cresswell, CB and Jane Catherine Robinson, his second wife. His father (1834-1905) was a well-known surgeon in the colliery district of South Wales who, after he was appointed chief surgeon to the D