Educated at Malvern College and at St Thomas's Hospital. After taking the Fellowship he engaged in active practice in Egypt and at the same time worked for the degrees of the University of London. As the subject of his MD thesis he selected "Bilharziosis in Women", and on this question he was able t

Born on 6 November 1875 at Cardiff, sixth child of John Forsdike, master mariner, and Mary Ann Thomas, his wife. A brother, George Frederick Forsdike (d 1936), a solicitor and stockbroker, became Lord Mayor of Cardiff. H S Forsdike was educated at Llandovery College and at University College, London