Born at Pewsey Vale, South Australia, the pastoral estate settled in 1838 by his grandfather Joseph Gilbert who came from Pewsey, Wiltshire, and thus a third generation Australian in one of the longest established South Australian families, he was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, and the Un

Born at Carlton, Melbourne in 1870, son of John Gordon a building contractor, he was educated at King's College, East Melbourne and the University of Melbourne, and was resident medical officer at Melbourne Hospital. He was in England in 1894-95, but went back to Melbourne and was elected surgeon to

Born at Nalpa Station, Wellington, South Australia on 30 July 1871, son of Josiah Bonnin the station manager and his wife, *née* Frew. He was educated at Glenelg Grammar School and Adelaide University, where he graduated in 1895. He spent the next three years in London, taking the Conjoint qualifica

Born on 24 March 1865 at Wellington, New Zealand, the son of Alfred A Barnett, JP. He was educated at Wellington State School and College, and at Otago University, Dunedin. He made his medical studies at Edinburgh where he graduated, and at the Middlesex Hospital where he served as house surgeon. Af

Alan Newton was born in Melbourne, 30 April 1887, son of Hibbert H Newton, Clerk of Parliaments in Victoria, and his wife, who was descended from the distinguished English legal family of Stephen. He was educated at Haileybury College, Melbourne, and Melbourne University, where he qualified in 1909,

Born at Taynish, North Knapdale, Argyll on 31 July 1856, son of Archibald MacCormick, farmer and ship-master, and his wife Mary Campbell of Barnashaly, North Knapdale. He was educated by Mr Stewart at Lochgilphead, Argyll, and at Edinburgh University, where he was a class-mate in the medical school

Born in Victoria, Australia on 13 May 1878, son of John Devine, a grazier in the Werribee district, he was educated at St Patrick's College, Ballarat. After a country apprenticeship in pharmacy, he was employed by Henry Francis, an old established pharmacist in Bourke Street, Melbourne, whose sho

Born on 5 December 1876 at Plympton, South Australia, fourth son of William Harper Formby, of Formby Hall, Lancashire and Longhouse Creek, South Australia, and his wife Eleanor Elizabeth White, he was educated at Hahndorf and Prince Alfred Colleges, Adelaide, and at the Universities of Adelaide and

He was educated at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1910. Coming to England for postgraduate study, he worked at St George's Hospital, took the Fellowship in 1915, and saw active service in the RAMC during the first world war. Returning to Sydney he became surgeon to the Royal Prince Alfred,

Educated in Melbourne, he was appointed resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital in 1892 and then of the Women's Hospital in Melbourne in 1893-94, after which he became surgical superintendent of Geelong Hospital, Victoria in 1895, and in 1896 surgical superintendent of the Victoria Eye an

Born 9 June 1891, son of Walter C Hailes of Moonee Ponds, a northern suburb of Melbourne. He was educated at the Essendon Grammar School, at the Scotch College, then in its old blue-stone buildings in East Melbourne, and at the University of Melbourne, where he won scholarships and prizes and was a

Born on 18 December 1859 at Campton, near Haddington, East Lothian, he was brought up under a strictly religious discipline with his brothers and sisters by his grandmother until her death. He was educated by a typical Scots dominie at the school in Haddington from which he proceeded to Edinburgh Ac