Born on 20 May 1878 at Dunedin, he was educated at the University of New Zealand, University College, London, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He held resident posts at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, the London Throat Hospital, and the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. He wa

John Arkle was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 28 July 1890 and was educated at St George's Private School at Gosforth. Subsequently he went to Edinburgh with a view to becoming an actuary, but after 12 months left Edinburgh to study medicine at Durham University. Arkle was a brilliant student and

Born at Bath on 3 August 1869, the only son of Cyril J Wood, journalist, and his wife, *née* Candy. Educated at Bath and at the University of Bristol, his main interests were devoted at first to pathology but, influenced by F Richardson Cross, he soon turned to ophthalmology. He was appointed surgeo

Born 7 February 1861, the eldest son of the Hon William Napier of MacMac, Lydenburg, South Africa, and his wife Louisa Mary, youngest daughter of John Horatio Lloyd, QC. His grandfather was William, 9th Lord Napier and Ettrick. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he served as

Born at Kobe, Japan on 25 September 1875, the elder son of John Kirkaldy Cunningham, a merchant, and Florence Heaslop, his wife. His father retired from business and settled at Axminster in 1887, and sent his son to Sherborne School. He entered at Michaelmas term 1889 and left in 1894, having been c

Born on 25 October 1878 at Cambridge son of Edward Moore he matriculated in 1897 as a non-collegiate student, entered Christ's College in 1898 where he was elected a scholar on winning first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1900, and won a scholarship to St Bartholomew's Hospital

Born at Ashford on 20 August 1879, eldest son of H J Goulden, a publisher and bookseller of Canterbury, and his wife Isabel Wind, he was educated at St Edmund's College, Ware, and at Downing College, Cambridge where his interests, which had been limited to music, broadened. Graduating in 1900, he co

Born on September 29th, 1882, the son of the Rev Robert Oliver, of Strathwell, Whitwell, Isle of Wight, by his wife Agnes Hunter-Baillie, the great-grandniece of John Hunter. He represented the family of John and William Hunter, through whose sister Dorothea he descended. Matthew Baillie, famous in