Born 10 August 1864 at Owen Sound, Ontario, the fourth child and third son of John Middlebrough, miller and contractor, and Margaret Burrow, his wife. He was educated at Old Stone School, now Strathcona Public School, Owen Sound, at the Model School, Collingwood, and at the Medical School of Toronto

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 Lichfield, he was educated at Mason College and the Birmingham Medical School. He went to South Africa immediately after qualifying in 1899, to serve in the RAMC during the war. He came home to take the Fellowship in 1903, but returned to practise at Uitenhage, where he married in 1909 Grace

Born at Oldham, 20 September 1878, the fourth child and second son of Edward Richards Noall, waste merchant, and Jane Stevens Paynter, his wife. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and afterwards entered Owens College, where he acted as prosector in anatomy. Coming to London he took courses

Born at Blackheath on 22 April 1874, the eldest child and only son of Captain William Maxwell, merchant navy, and his wife, *née* Dobell. He was educated at Weymouth College and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he was sizar and exhibitioner. He took first-class honours in part 1, 1896, of the Na

Born 19 August 1876, elder son of John William Collinson, wool merchant of Halifax, and Frances Whiteley, his wife. He was educated at the Quaker schools at Ackworth and Bootham, and at the Yorkshire College Medical School at Leeds. He received his clinical training at the Leeds General Infirmary, w

Born on 19 August 1876 in Birmingham, son of John McGavin, he was educated at King Edward's High School and the University of Birmingham. He trained at the London Hospital, winning a gold medal and university scholarship. During the South African war he served as a civilian surgeon with the army, im

Born 27 July 1875 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, Plymouth, only child of Staff-Surgeon Charles Lyon Ridout, RN, MRCS 1866, and Ada Perley Scott, his wife, daughter of Archibald Scott of Halifax, Nova Scotia. C L Ridout was at that time on the staff at Stonehouse and later served in HMS *To

He was born at Hampstead on 14 February 1875, son of John Howard Mummery FRCS (1847-1926) and Mary Lily, his first wife, daughter of W Lockhart of Shanghai. John Howard Mummery (for a memoir of whom see *Plarr's Lives* 2, 81 and *British dental Journal* 1926, 47, 1023-7) was a prominent dental surge