Born in London 10 April 1878, the son of William Harrison Cripps FRCS. He was educated at Marlborough, Trinity College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital where, after qualification, he held a house surgeon appointment. He never practised as a surgeon but was medical officer to the General A

He was born on 11 December 1879, the third son of Walter F Adeney, congregational minister at Acton, and Mary J Hampton his wife. W F Adeney was subsequently Chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales; he was a distinguished theologian and Bible critic. Cuthbert Adeney was educated

Born on 30 December 1877 at Garforth, near Leeds, Yorkshire, son of Sir John Ward and his wife, *née* Brambles. His father afterwards became Lord Mayor of Leeds. He was educated in Switzerland and at Clare College, Cambridge, and took first-class honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos,