George Maxted was born in 1886 and educated at Guy's Hospital where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma, and graduated with the London University MB BS in 1910. He then became a house physician at Guy's, and held a house surgeon appointment at the Wolverhampton General Hospital. After a resident

Ernest Gerald Stanley was born in Brixton on 24 December 1886 and was educated at Marlborough and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1910, and in 1912 he took the FRCS and the MS. After resident appointments at Bart's he became a demonstrator of anatomy, and honorar

Humphrey Neame was born on 8 May 1887 and went to school at Cheltenham College; he was President of the Cheltonian Society in 1951-52. He did his undergraduate course at the London Hospital, and after qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1910 he spent a year in Serbia at the time of the Balkan wa

Stanley Hoyte was born in Nottingham on 22 August, 1885. He was the seventh son of William Henry Hoyte, an architect and surveyor. He studied medicine at King's College and then at Westminster Hospital, graduating in 1910. Whilst a medical student he won the Victor Ludorum of the United Hospitals At

Adrian Leonard Moreton was born in London on 18 December 1886 and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1910. After junior hospital posts he passed the London MB BS in 1913, winning the University Medal and gaining distinc

Norbert Leo Maxwell Reader was born at Marshfield, Gloucestershire, on 13 October 1885. His father, Jeremiah Reader, was a doctor of medicine. He was educated at Wakefield Grammar School, Stonyhurst and at Leeds University, where he won the anatomy prize. He went from there to Guy's Hospital where h

Henry Clarence Wardleworth Nuttall was born on 22 June 1886 and qualified at Liverpool University with the Conjoint Diploma in 1910. After junior hospital appointments in Liverpool he was Thelwall Thomas Fellow in surgical pathology, then Holt Fellow in pathology, and later Robert Gee Fellow in anat

John Bruce Baird was born in Winton, Otago, New Zealand, on 29 July 1885, son of James Baird, a Presbyterian minister, and Elizabeth Stephen. Bruce was the youngest of seven children, five of whom became doctors; of these, two were girls: Helen and Agnes; they were among the earliest women medical s

Herbert Henry Sampson was born in Sutton Coldfield on 5 October 1886. After education at King Edward VI School, Birmingham, he entered the University where he was reputed to have won all the prizes, scholarships and distinctions and was also victor ludorum. On graduating in 1909 he became a houseman

Henzell Howard Dummere came from a family of doctors, his father, Howard Howse Dummere MRCS, four uncles and his brother were all medical men, as was his father-in-law. One of his uncles, Neville Howse, had a distinguished career: gaining his FRCS, he emigrated to Australia at the age of twenty-eigh

Born on St David's Day 1883 in Rhymney, the third and youngest son of David Rocyn Jones, Arthur came of a family of Welsh bone-setters. His Pembrokeshire great-grandfather, Thomas Jones, was a farmer with a reputation for treating animals, whose son (1822-1877) and grandson (1847-1915) were bone-set

Gerald Waddington Beresford was born at Markyate, Hertfordshire, on 22 April 1886 and educated at Wyggeston School, Leicester, where he distinguished himself both academically, gaining the science and other prizes, and athletically, winning the 100 and 250 yards open races and playing for the first