Born 17 January 1871, son of G H Clarkson of Caterham, he was educated at St Paul's School where he was a foundation scholar, and at St George's Hospital, where he served as senior house surgeon. He then went as a ship's surgeon with the P and O Company. He practised throughout his career at Caterha

Born on 22 November 1872 he was trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualified in 1894 and, after serving his Hospital as external midwifery assistant, was gazetted Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service (Bengal) 1896. He saw active service on the North-West Frontier in 1897-98, and was a

Born at Newport, Fife on 26 October 1869, eldest of the four sons and a daughter of John Prain of Dundee and Sara Elizabeth Leay, his wife. His father was afterwards agent of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co at Panama and at Valparaiso, Chile. Prain was educated at Cheltenham College, 1882-88, and at