Biggar was born at Gateshead and received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital; while there he won the junior and senior Platt Scholarships; the Matthew Duncan Prize; the Herbert Prize; the Parkes Memorial Prize; and a silver medal at the first Montefiore Prize. He held a number of r

George Gibson Lyttle was born at Belfast on 9 June 1885. Educated at the Methodist College, Queen's University, Belfast, and London University, he graduated MB BS London in 1909. He entered general practice in 1911 and during the first world war was in the RAMC from 1914 to 1917, serving in the Dard

Born on 10 April 1886, son of Arthur John Jefferson MD of Rochdale, who was trained at St Thomas's and became honorary medical officer to Rochdale Infirmary, he received a classical education at Manchester Grammar School, as did his younger brother J C Jefferson FRCS (1888-1954). Proceeding to Manch