Dhulipala Kameswara Rao was born in Andhra Pradesh, South India, on 18 August 1905, the son of a lawyer. He was educated locally until he entered the Madras Medical College, from which he graduated MB BS in 1930. He was a junior house officer at the Government General Hospital and at the Government

Born at Springtown, Co Down, on 23 August 1878, youngest of the eleven children of Thomas M. Greeves whose family, at first Quakers and later Plymouth Brethren, had been settled in Northern Ireland since the mid-seventeenth century. Affleck Greeves was educated at Queen's University, Belfast, where

Clifton James Luke was born in Sydney, Australia, on 25 April 1925, the only son of Clive Herbert Luke, a businessman, and Dorothy May (nee Mullaney) whose father was Mayor of Goulburn, New South Wales, and whose great grandfather had been the Professor of Botany at Dublin University. His educati

Leonard Smith Talbot was born in 1880 the fourth son of J. Talbot of Rangitira Valley, one of a well-known farming family in South Canterbury, New Zealand. He was educated at the Timaru Boys' High School and Temuka District High School, and graduated MB ChB from Otago Medical School, Dunedin in 1902

Benjamin William Rycroft was born in a small village in Yorkshire in 1902. In his youth he learned to play the organ well enough to do so in his parish church and thus was mildly attracted to the ministry as a profession. Instead, he studied medicine in St Andrew's University (1919-1924) and after q