Born 21 November 1889, the seventh child and second son of William Carlton, muslin draper, of Grantham, and Mary Elizabeth Rollinson, his wife. He was educated at Doncaster Grammar School, and won an open exhibition in mathematics and natural science to St John's College, Oxford, where he began by r

Born 10 March 1881 at Hinckley, Leicestershire, the second child and only son of Edward Simpson, a schoolmaster, and Charlotte McCann, his wife. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar, and took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos,

Born at Oxford, 9 June 1891, eldest son of Richard Henry Anglin Whitelocke, FRCS, senior surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, and his wife Barbara Henry, eldest daughter of G L Reid, civil engineer, of Brighton. Hugh Whitelocke's third name was taken from his grandfather's home, Bulstrode Park, Westm

Born in London on 14 August 1867, eldest child of William Greenwood Sutcliffe, MRCS 1865, of 2 Ashville Place, Battersea Park, and Mary Sophia Pottle, his wife. He was educated at the City of London School and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he won the Cheselden medal and was house surgeon. After ser

Born on 14 November 1892, he was educated at Blundell's School and Bristol University. He interrupted his medical education when war broke out in 1914 to join the Gloucestershire Regiment as a combatant officer. He resumed his medical studies in 1917 and qualified the following year with the Conjoin

Dent was educated at Mason College, Birmingham and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London from which he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1897; after study at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Medical School he took the Durham University MB in 1898. He served as a civil surgeon with the South African Field Fo

Ernest Cowell was born on 24 February 1886, son of Jasper Cowell of Steyning, Sussex, and was educated at Steyning Grammar School and University College Hospital Medical School where he graduated in 1907, taking the Conjoint Diploma the same year, and went on to take his MD degree in 1909 and the Fe

Ralph Coyte, or "Dan" as he was generally known to his friends, was born on 3 May 1893 and went to Bart's for his medical studies, and while there distinguished himself on the rugger field. Early in the first world war he served in the Royal Navy as a Surgeon Probationer, being discharged later to c

Peter Campbell Clifford was born in Ruislip, Middlesex in December 1949 and after early education at the Royal Masonic School in Bushey entered Bristol Medical School, qualifying in 1973. After junior appointments at Bristol, Swindon and the Middlesex Hospital he passed the Fellowship in 1978 and de

David Aiken qualified in Dublin in 1940 and retained a home in Londonderry all his life. He became a Fellow of the College in 1947 and practised in the Sheffield area. After holding posts as senior surgical registrar at the United Sheffield Hospital and resident surgical officer for the Christie Hos

Robert Wallace (Bob) Nevin was born in Burton-on-Trent in 1907, the son of a general practitioner. He was educated at Clifton College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He joined St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1929 and had a distinguished undergraduate career, winning the Cheselden and Clutton

Robert Debenham, or 'Deb' as he was universally known, was born in Presteigne, Radnorshire, on 3 January 1902, the son of Horace Alan Debenham, a general practitioner, and his wife Maud Constance, who was the daughter of a GP. After preliminary schooling at Brockhurst he was educated at Malvern Coll