Donald Currie was the eldest son of James Irvine Currie, who was a woollen manufacturer in Leeds. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University, and obtained his medical training at the London Hospital. His studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the first world war and at the age

William Eric Marcus Mitchell was born at Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland, on 29 April 1897, the son of Dr John Finlay Mitchell, a medical practitioner and Anna, nee Shaw. His early education was at Campbell College, Belfast, and after leaving school he joined the Royal Irish Rifles, servi

Born the eldest child of Henry Bulman and his wife Margaret, an Oxford graduate; his brother was Professor of Geology at Cambridge and his sister a gifted journalist and linguist, who wrote the life of the Swedish singer Jenny Lind. He was educated at Battersea Grammar School and the London Hospi