Born 17 September 1879 at Romsey, Hants, eldest child of George Maughan Footner, solicitor, and his wife, *née* Rammell. He was educated at Marlborough College, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and at St Thomas's Hospital where he won a university scholarship. He had a distinguished career in the med

Born at Weymouth on 4 March 1878, eldest of the three sons of Walter Benjamin Cole, chemist, and his wife Mary Parmiter, of Dorchester. He was educated at Weymouth College, and as a dental student at Guy's Hospital. After qualifying as a dentist in 1899 he decided to become a surgeon. He took the Co