Lionel Canaan was born in England where he received his medical education before travelling to the United States. He finally settled into practice in Massapequa Park where he was much respected as a family doctor and it was said of him that he "always kept his fees as low as possible". He wrote shor

Anthony Harvard Baker was born at North Walsham, Norfolk, the eldest son of the Reverend Anthony Charles Baker a Methodist minister; his second name recalled a distant relationship to John Harvard who had bequeathed his library to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the eighteenth century and had given his

Eric John Greenwood was born on 10 October 1902 in Greenwich, London, the only son of Eustace Noel Greenwood, an accountant and former mayor of Greenwich, and Gertrude Freida Scarr. He was educated at the Rowan School, Greenwich, before starting medicine at Guy's Hospital in 1918. He then went to Do

Douglas Stanley-Jones was born in London on 2 February 1905. His father, Herbert Stanley-Jones, was a chartered accountant. His mother, Florence Eliza née Parry was the daughter of William Parkes Parry, a wholesale pharmacist, and the sister of Leonard Arthur Parry MD FRCS. Douglas was educated at W