Born in New Zealand he was educated at the Otago Medical School, Dunedin, and made postgraduate studies at the London Hospital. He was surgeon to the Dunedin Hospital in the South Island, but moved to Auckland in the North Island where also he was surgeon to the Hospital. In the later part of his li

Born on 26 September 1881, the fifth child and only son of John Mead, wharfinger, and Emily Clarke his wife, he was educated at Berkhamstead School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Lawrence scholarship and served as ophthalmic house surgeon and intern midwifery assistant. After a long

Born 14 May 1878 at Christchurch, New Zealand, the seventh child and fifth son of Michael O'Brien, who owned a boot-factory there, and his wife Bridget Anne Quinn. He was educated at Christchurch Boys High School, and come to England to take his medical training at Guy's Hospital, where he served as

Born on 1 September 1882, son of Thomas Hey JP of Colne and his wife Martha Jane Tatham, whose father was a solicitor there, Wilson Hey was educated at Burnley Grammar School and the University of Manchester, winning scholarships and prizes. He took his clinical training at the London Hospital, and

Born on 22 August 1880 the only son of Henry Edward Juler FRCS, senior ophthalmic surgeon to St Mary's Hospital, and Amy Anderson his wife, he was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part 1 in 1901. He entered

Born 31 August 1879, the eldest son of Francis Formby Back of Harrow Weald, proprietor of *The Egyptian Gazette*. He won classical scholarships at Marlborough College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1901 with second-class honours in natural science. He distinguished himself at row

Born 20 June 1880 at 11 Eldon Square, Newcastle-on-Tyne, the youngest child, with a brother and a sister, of John Hope, MRCS 1865, and Jessie Anne Martin, his wife. John Hope died in February 1883, and the children were brought up by their grandfather. Charles Hope was educated at Clifton College an