Born 16 June 1871, the eldest child of Samuel Cookson, MRCS MD St Andrews 1862, of Stafford, and his wife Jane Grace, daughter of Henry Day, FRCP 1879, MRCS 1842, and widow of Mr Gibson. He was educated at Epsom College and at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was Freer Lucas scholar and subsequently

Born on 8 December 1870 at Marlborough where his father was manager of the Bank, he followed his three elder brothers to Marlborough College and St Mary's Hospital, which he entered with a scholarship. He served as house surgeon, house physician, and resident obstetric officer, and intended to becom

Herbert Johann Scharlieb, he changed his name by deed poll in 1914, was born at Madras on 22 July 1868, the younger son and second of the three children of William Mason Scharlieb (died 1891), barrister of the Middle Temple, and Mary Ann Dacomb Bird, his wife, afterwards Dame Mary Scharlieb (1845-19