Little information is available about John Oliver. After graduating at Trinity College, Dublin, and postgraduate work at the Middlesex Hospital, he was appointed assistant surgeon at the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden Square; surgeon to Saffron Walden Hospital, and surgeon and aural spe

Norman Armitage Sprott studied medicine at Oxford University, St Thomas's, the London Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital. His varied posts included medical officer to the Hyderabad State Railways, member of the medical board of Eton College and medical superintendent of St Columba's Hospital, Londo

Educated at St Mary's and the London Hospitals, he qualified during the first world war, after which he settled about 1925 at Kokstadt, East Griqualand, South Africa, where he appears to have practised for the rest of his life, though using a bank address at Abingdon, Berkshire. He retired about

Born 17 August 1879 at Woburn Square, London, WC, the fifth child and second son of Spencer Dunn, chemical manufacturer, and his wife, *née* Law. He was educated at the Cholmely School, Highgate, and began life as a barrister, being called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1912, but retired during th

Born in 1894 he received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he became a house surgeon and later chief assistant in the surgical unit. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC and was at one time attached to the 1st London General Hospital. In 1925 he was in partnership

Born on 14 February 1889, Griffith Evans was educated at Ruthin School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained second-class honours in the final school of Natural Sciences (physiology), and had his medical training at St George's Hospital, London. He joined the RAMC as a student on the outb

Born on 16 January 1891 the only child of Dr Arthur Edwin Mason LSA of West Hampstead and Alice Mary Courtenay Cole his wife, he was educated at the Haberdashers Aske's Hampstead School and graduated BA in four subjects at London University. He took his clinical training at Middlesex Hospital, quali

Born at Christchurch, New Zealand 18 December 1894, he was educated in England at Berkhamsted School and St George's Hospital. He qualified during the first world war, and went on active service as a Major with the New Zealand Army Medical Corps in France, winning the Military Cross. He then spent f

Born 22 August 1892, the third and youngest son of George Douglas Pidcock, MD Cambridge, MRCP, who was in general practice at 74 Fitzjohn's Avenue, Hampstead, London, NW. Mrs Pidcock, née Thorn, had previously been married to a Mr Tasker, and had a son by that first marriage. He was educated at Univ

James Gaymer Jones was born at Upper Norwood, London, on 26 August 1891. His father was also an MRCS. He was educated privately and at the West Ham Technical Institute from whence he proceeded to Guy's Hospital in 1910. He gained many prizes in anatomy and physiology. In July 1914 he was mobilised i

Born at Exmouth on 30 April 1891, the second child and only son of Surgeon Major A J Wharry, of the Egyptian Army, and Lillie Adeline Barker, his wife. He was educated at Radley and matriculated from New College, Oxford in 1910, but took no degree in the University. He received his medical education

Born 19 November 1893 at Liskeard, Cornwall, the third child and second son of William Huddy, silversmith, and Jessie Ham, his wife. Educated at Liskeard County School and at the London Hospital, where he served as house physician, house surgeon, first surgical assistant, clinical assistant in the g