Educated at Trinity Medical College, Toronto, where he graduated 1886, Nichols served as house surgeon at Guy's Hospital and took the Conjoint qualification in 1899, proceeding to the Fellowship at the end of 1901. He then went back to Canada, where he practised at Winnipeg. He examined in surgery a

Born at Folkestone on 10 March 1871, the second son of John F Wilkin, MRCS 1862, JP, of Roxby House, West Cliff, Folkestone and afterwards of Rose Ash, South Molton, Devon, and Jane Laud Shoolbred, his wife. He was educated at Haileybury 1883-90, where he was a scholar, reached the Upper Sixth Fo

Born at Pilgrims Rest in the Transvaal on 14 January 1876, the sixth and youngest child of Thomas McLachlan, a pioneer from Perth, Scotland, and Maria Shires, his wife, who came from Cheshire, England. He received his early education at Maritzburg College and at Brighton Grammar School. He qualified

Born at Elton Hall, Sandbach, Cheshire on 16 June 1876, the eldest son of Charles Billington. He was educated at Sandbach Grammar School and at Wellington College, Salop (Wrekin school), where he became head of the school and acted for a time as secretary to Sir John Bayley, its master and founder.

Born on 9 January 1875 at Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, the eldest child of James Mitchell Wilson, MB, medical officer of health for Rochdale, Lancashire, and his wife, *née* Shepperson. He was educated at Doncaster Grammar School, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took third-class

Born at Wigan, 24 February 1874, the second child and first son of Joseph Wright, clothier, and Agnes Rae, his wife, both parents being of Scottish extraction. He was educated at Wigan Grammar School and at Owen's College, Manchester. He practised for a short time as a general practitioner, in partn