Henry James Drew-Smythe was born at Northampton on 1 June 1891, the first child of Frank Thompson Smythe and Ada (née Drew). He was educated at Taunton School and Bristol University where he won the gold medal in his final year at the Medical School. After resident appointments at Bristol General an

Born in London on 8 March 1889 the only child of John Prime Tanner and his wife Margaret Baxter James, he was educated at Roan School, Birkbeck College, the Royal (now Imperial) College of Science, and at Guy's Hospital. He originally intended to be a dentist, but after distinguishing himself in the