He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won two junior scholarships in 1900 and the University gold medal in anatomy in 1901. He took the Conjoint qualification and the London MB with honours in medicine and forensic medicine in 1903; and won the Kirke scholarship and gold medal in 19

Charles Derwent Pye-Smith was born in Sheffield in 1878, but came south for his education at Mill Hill School and Guy's Hospital. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1903 and in the same year passed the examination for the MB degree in the University of London, but did not complete the BS till