Born on 19 August 1875, the eldest of the three children of Samuel Daw and his wife, *née* Davy; he was educated privately. Daw qualified at the age of thirty from the medical school of Guy's Hospital, where he then served as resident surgical officer. After serving as resident surgical officer and

Born at Walsall on 18 July 1883 the eldest child and only son of George Mills, ironmaster, afterwards of Great Barr, Staffordshire, and his wife M E Kettlewell of Howden, whose daughter married Seymour Barling FRCS, he was educated at Harrow and at the Birmingham medical school, but graduated with h

Born 7 February 1882 at Cawsand, Cornwall, the second child and eldest son of William Henry Trethowan, grocer, and his wife, *née* Hutchings. He was educated at Devonport High School and at the Plymouth Technical College. He entered Guy's Hospital in 1901, after gaining the junior entrance scholarsh

Born on 26 September 1879, the youngest (fifth) child and only son of James Bankart, FRCS (1862) of Southernhay, Exeter, and Gertrude Moss, his wife. Hew as educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos 1901. He took his cl

Born on 2 September 1882 son of Charles Page of Oxton, Cheshire, he was educated at Westminster School and St Thomas's Hospital, where he had a brilliant career as student and athlete, gaining the Musgrove Scholarship for 1902-04, the Beaney Scholarship in 1907-08, the Cheselden medal, the Bristowe