Washington Everitt Wilks qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1908, and proceeded to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1911. In 1912 he settled in British Columbia and practised in Victoria and Nanamio. After about 9 years he moved to Vancouver where he worked for 45 years, ret

Geoffrey Viner studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he became ophthalmic house surgeon. He held the post of surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmological Hospital and then was honorary consulting surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was a member of the Ophthalmological Society.

Born 14 September 1879, the fourth child and third son of Peter Davies, farmer, and Elizabeth, his wife. He was educated at Llangeitho and Tregaron County School, Cardiganshire and took his medical training at the London Hospital, where he won scholarships in anatomy and physiology 1906 and in patho

Vincent Townrow was born on 1 June 1885 in Chesterfield, the youngest child of Thomas Townrow, a miller and his wife Mary (Adlington). Educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and Guy's Hospital, where he was prizeman of the Guy's Philosophical Society, he qualified with honours in medicine. Working

Born in South India, 25 October 1879, second child and only son of Cumarasingham Murugesapillai, a deputy collector in Tanjore, and Seethalakahmi Clarke, his wife. He was educated at the Hindu High School, Triplicane, Madras, and at the Presidency College, Madras. He came to England and took the Con

Edward Leslie Martyn Lobb, known to his friends as John, was educated at Guy's Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1908 with the Conjoint Board Diploma and the MB BS of the University of London. He proceeded to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1910, and the MS in 1911. In the

Born at Gillingham, Kent on 12 November 1883, he was educated at St Thomas's Hospital where he won numerous prizes and the Musgrove Scholarship. After qualifying in 1908 he held house appointments at St Thomas's, and filled posts at the Royal Free Hospital, the West London Hospital and the Royal Sal

Born at Southampton in 1884, he was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in Natural Sciences (1905), and won an exhibition to Guy's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to Sir Charles Symonds. Crook settled in practice in partnership with Dr Astley Roberts at Ea

Born about 1887, he was educated at University College Hospital where he was Atkinson Morley surgical scholar and won University medals in several subjects, scientific and clinical. He held resident posts there and at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, but went to Sydney in 1915. He was commission

Arthur Cecil Barker Biggs was born in North London on 9 March 1885. His father, John Maundy Biggs, was a general practitioner and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Florence Elizabeth Biggs, née Hopkinson, his mother, was the daughter of the originator of the Hopkinson piano. He w

Born on 24 September 1881 at Watford, Ontario, Edwin Algernon was the son of Neville James Lindsay, a pioneer doctor who was the first Canadian Government Physician to the Blackfoot, Stony and Sarcee Indians. As a boy of four he saw the driving of the 'last spike' of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Af

Born 9 April 1881, son of Hugh McCaw, MB CM Glasgow 1877, in practice at East Taieri, Otago, New Zealand, and Jane Macadam Todd, his wife. He was educated at the Otago Boys' High School and at Otago College, University of New Zealand, before coming to England to study medicine. He entered the London