Born in Eastern Bengal, 23 June 1878, the sixth child and second son of Frederick William Joseph Rees, of the Bengal civil service, and Alice Hawthorn Heathcote, his wife. He was educated at Haileybury and the Middlesex Hospital, where he won a prize in anatomy and in 1899 a second-year exhibition,

Born 14 February 1878 at Stafford House, Sutton, Surrey, the second son and second child of Thomas Hamer Dolbey, barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, and Louisa Ann Jones, his wife. She was the daughter of Robert Jones, MRCS 1842, LSA 1830, of Strefford, Craven Arms, Shropshire. Dolbey was educate

Matthew Robert Cecil McWatters, son of David McWatters of Bath, was born there on 4 January 1878. He was educated at Bath Grammar School and at King's College, London, taking the Conjoint diploma in 1902 and the MB the following year. At King's College Hospital he was chosen by Sir Watson Cheyne as

Born 12 September 1878 at St Charles Square, London, W, the second son of Thomas Kelly, colonel in the Egyptian Army, and Catherine Fitzmaurice, his wife. His elder brother, James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (1857-1923), was Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of London, 1916-20 (se