Born 24 September 1863, the son of Thomas William Cowell, MRCS. He was educated at Westminster, where he entered in 1876, and was elected a Queen's Scholar in 1879, and at University College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1886. He became assistant secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons in 188

Sir Miles Clifford was born in 1897 and, after a private education and military service in France and Flanders during the first world war, entered the Colonial Service and was appointed to the administration service in Nigeria. In the early years of the second world war he commanded the Nigerian Eur

Ronald Stuart Johnson-Gilbert, or 'J-G' as he was known with affection throughout the College, was our secretary from 1962 to 1988. He was born on 14 July 1925, the son of Sir Ian A Johnson-Gilbert CBE and Rosalind Bell-Hughes, and was proud to be a descendant of Samuel Johnson. He was educated at t