William Stewart Dickie was born in Glasgow on 10 December 1872. He began work as an office boy in an iron foundry at the age of 13, but when he was 15 he decided to go to sea and sailed as an apprentice in the four-master *Madagascar*. He took his second mate's certificate and his chief officer's ex

Born at Middlesbrough on 16 June 1876 son of Robert Telford, accountant, of Withington and Mary Ann Davison his wife, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1897. He was an assistant surgeon

Born 23 November 1874 the fourth child and second son of John Mortimer Hunt, a business man, and his wife, née Henderson. He was educated at Harrow, at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in the final school of physiology and worked for a year with Professor J S Haldane, and a

Born in London on 29 May 1872, fourth son of the Very Rev the Hon William Henry Fremantle, Dean of Ripon, and Isabella, his wife, daughter of Sir Culling Eardley, 3rd Baronet, the religious philanthropist (for whom see *DNB*). The Dean was the second son of Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Lord Cottesl