Educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1902. After training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he won the University scholarship in 1904 and held house appointments, he settled in practice at Yeovil, Somerset and became surgeon to the C

Born 17 September 1879 at Sydney, New South Wales, the eldest son of Eben MacDonald, banker, and his wife Elizabeth Gray. He was educated privately and at St John's College, Cambridge, taking second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1902. He then entered St Thomas's Hospital, whe

Born in the Channel Isle of Alderney on 28 November 1878, the eldest surviving son of Captain William Gauvain, HM Receiver-General for the Island, and his wife Catherine Le Ber. After a severe attack of scarlet fever while at a preparatory school in England, he was educated privately in Alderney and