Arthur Hughes Southam was born in Manchester on 27 June 1888; both his father and his grandfather were surgeons to the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford graduating as BA in 1909. For his clinical training he returned to Manchester, qualifying as BM BCh in

Born 7 March 1890, the elder son of William Edwards of Langlands, Glamorgan, Chairman of Edwards Limited, and his wife Mary Griffith Thomas. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Cambridge. He took his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital, when Sir John Bland-Sutton was s