Born on 13 May 1870, son of William Parry, manufacturing chemist, he received his medical education at Guy's Hospital, where while a student he was President of the Physical Society, and where after qualification he was appointed a house physician. Later he acted as physician to the St Pancras and N

Born on 16 December 1870, the second child and only son of the Rev William Lee, a Congregational minister and missionary, and his wife née Sargent, he was educated at Bedford School and Bishop's Stortford grammar school, taking his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which he entered with