Born on 17 February 1888, son of Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Cooke Alton CB, CMG, RN, he was educated at Bedford School. After qualifying from St Thomas's Hospital in 1910, he entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon. Four years later he graduated MB BS at London University. During the first world

Muriel Landau was born on 21 January 1895 and educated at Dame Alice Owens School, Islington where she gained an entrance scholarship to the London School of Medicine for Women. She qualified in 1918 and after house appointments at the Royal Free and at Queen Charlotte's Hospitals was appointed regi

Richard Horace Paramore was born in 1876, and started his medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital with an entrance scholarship in science in 1895. The following year he won a junior scholarship in anatomy, distinctions indicating an intelligence which, when combined with the tendency to be argu

Graham was born on 5 June 1881, won an Andrewes Entrance Scholarship to University College Hospital, and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1905. After taking his university degrees in 1907, he specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, and held resident posts at Soho Hospital for Women and West

Kenneth Holl Macmillan was born on February 3 1891 in Lee, S.E. London, the eldest son of John W McMillan, a banker, and his wife, Florence. His younger brother became a chest physician. Always an individualist he, alone of his family, decided to change the spelling of his name from that on his dipl

Born at Brixton, 15 April 1848, the only son of Samuel Osborn, FRCS, and his wife, *née* Mayhew. He was educated at Epsom College and at Wren's, well known as a "crammer" for the army examinations. He then entered St Thomas's Hospital, where he was house surgeon, house physician, resident accoucheur

Born in London, 8 January 1866, the fourth child and third son of Constantine A Ionides, of the Stock Exchange, and Agatha Fenerly, his wife. He thus belonged to the family of Greek merchants whose art bequests are preserved at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was educated at Winchester, and at Un

Francis Edward Stabler was born in Darlington on 23 September 1902, the son of the headmaster of a school in the town, and received his education at the Darlington Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, and the University of Durham College of Medicine, where he graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor o

Cecilie Grieg received her medical education at the West London Hospital Medical School and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1944, gaining her Fellowship in 1955. In her early career she specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology and held junior appointments at St Mary Abbots Hospital, Epsom Co

Farquhar received his medical education at Birmingham, qualifying MB ChB there in 1938. After he obtained his Fellowship, he specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, holding junior and registrar posts at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital and at the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women. Later

Harry Silvester Waters was born in Mussoorie, India, on 21 May 1904, the son of Sir Harry George Waters, chief medical officer to the East India Railway Company. His mother, Winifred, was one of the first female graduates of the Edinburgh Medical School, and was for a time after her marriage an assi

Eileen Mary Whapham was an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Southend and Rochford Hospitals. She was born in London on 23 May 1907, the daughter of Albert Whapham, a businessman, and Harrie Mary Louisa Whitney, a schoolteacher who was the daughter of a cabinet-maker. Her younger sister, Violet Harr