Son of Charles Bernard Baker, CE, of 5 The Crescent, Bedford, and afterwards of St Albans. Born Nov 17th, 1864, at Uttoxeter, Staffs. Educated at Haileybury, where he was admitted in 1878 under Mr Bradby, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a Pensioner on June 16th, 1883, with Mr Image as his

Educated at Middlesex Hospital, where he was Resident Medical Officer. Practised at Royston, Hertfordshire for more than forty years, during which time he was well known as Coroner for Hertfordshire and as a Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire. For many years he was Medical Sup

Educated at Cambridge, he graduated BA from Downing College in 1826 and MA in 1829. He practised at 18 Zion Hill, Bath, and died before 1859.

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital; practised at Stourbridge, where he was Surgeon to the Iron and Coal Works. He died before 1880, but for ten years before this date his address was unknown to the *Medical Directory*. Publications: "On Fracture of Cranium." - *Lancet*, 1846, ii, 581. "Imperfora

Francois Darné was an eminent surgeon in Mauritius and, as a former ambassador to France, a renowned diplomat. During the war he served in the Emergency Medical Service in London and also gave lectures in anatomy at the University of Cambridge and at UCL, where he was the first Mauritian to be appoi

Will Davey wrote the first textbook on surgery in tropical countries. He was born on 28 February 1912 in Dunmurry, near Belfast, in Northern Ireland. His father, Robert, was a minister of religion. His mother was Charlotte née Higginson. One of a family of five, he studied medicine at Queens Univers

Albert Davis was an obstetrician and pioneering neuro-gynaecologist. He born on 4 January 1904 into a Jewish family in Manchester, where he studied medicine and became resident at the Manchester Royal Infirmary to Sir Harry Platt and Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, who greatly influenced him. He soon de

Robin Denham was an orthopaedic surgeon in Portsmouth. He was born on 18 April 1922, and studied medicine at St Thomas’s medical school in London, qualifying in 1945. He was a senior registrar at Rowley Bristow Hospital in Pyrford and at St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey. He was subsequently appointed t

Trevor Dinning, known since childhood as ‘Jim’, was the architect of neurosurgical services in South Australia and the creator of a very successful research foundation. He was born in Dulwich, Adelaide, on 16 February 1919, the second child of Alfred Ernest Dinning, a school inspector and later head

Bill Doey was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London. He was born in Bessbrook, county Armagh, Northern Ireland, on 22 February 1912, the son of Rev Thomas Doey, a Presbyterian minister. His mother was Charlotte Chesney née McCay, the

Alfred John Drew, known as ‘Jack’, was a former consultant general surgeon in Walsall. He was born in Ceylon on 17 February 1916, the son of the chief pilot for the harbour at Colombo. He was educated at Nuwara Eliya, and was then sent to Ipswich School at the age of 11. He became head boy and rugby

Howard Eddey was a former professor of surgery at Melbourne University. He was born on 3 September 1910, in Melbourne. His father was Charles Howard Eddey, a manager, and his mother was Rachel Beatrice née Hadfield, the daughter of a teacher. He was educated at Melbourne High School, where he was ca