Sachindra Ghosh was born in Calcutta, India, on 20 June 1928, the son of a marine official in the British India Steam Navigation Company. He received his early schooling in Calcutta, attended Calcutta Science College where he obtained a BSc, and graduated MB BS from the National Medical College in 1

Zafar Ul Haq was born in Masaka, Uganda, in 1927. He studied medicine at the Punjab University, Pakistan, where he graduated in 1950. Following house appointments in Pakistan he returned to his parental home at Masaka where he worked in general practice and as a surgeon to the Nkozi Mission Hospital

Maurice Ellis, the son of a motor engineer, who founded a milk business which later became Associated Dairies, was born on 16 September 1905 in Leeds and was educated at Rydal School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Leeds University School of Medicine. After qualifying in 1930 he was appointed to h

Iven Alastair Page was born at South Grafton, New South Wales, in 1914, being the third son of Sir Earle Page. He was educated at the Fort Street Boys' High School and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School, and then proceeded to the University of Sydney where he graduated in medicine in 1937.

The following was published in volume 6 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Born on 5 November 1903 in Wellington, New Zealand, Leith Alexander Riddell was the only son of Alexander Riddell, an engineer, and Hannah Cressall Newman. He was educated at Roseneath Primary School, Wellington, and Wellin

John Gibbons was born in Moseley, Warwickshire, on 26 November 1926. His father, Leonard Norman Gibbons, who had been severely gassed in the trenches during the First World War, later became legal adviser to the Birmingham Gas Board. His mother was Gladys Elizabeth née Smith, a secretary. John was e