Educated at University College, Sheffield, and the London Hospital, where he served as senior casualty officer and surgical registrar, he then emigrated to the Argentine, where he made his career at Monte Caseros, serving as surgeon to the Robinson Charity Hospital. After retiring he lived at Slythe

Frederick Curtis was born in 1873, the son of Albert Curtis MRCS 1857, a general practitioner at Staines, Middlesex, and grandson of Frederick Curtis MRCS 1832, who had practised there previously. He was brought up a Quaker and educated at Bootham, York. His family had a long tradition in medicine f

Born on 30 November 1878 at Enfield, the fourth child and third son of William Stephen Ridewood and Anne Foreman his wife, he was educated at Enfield Grammar School, where his father was headmaster. He studied medicine at the London Hospital, and won gold medals at the BS examination in 1906 and at

Born on 6 March 1875 he was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and the University of Edinburgh, and was a house surgeon at the North Lonsdale Hospital, Barrow-in-Furness. He entered the Indian Medical Service as a Lieutenant in 1903, after winning the Martin memorial gold medal at Netley. From 1

Born on 12 July 1874, for his medical education he went to Guy's Hospital, and, after qualifying in 1897, he entered the Indian Medical Service on 28 January 1898 obtaining a gold medal in military medicine at Netley. Promoted Captain on 28 January 1901, he was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind medal, first

Born in 1874, a Brahmin, he spent his professional life in Edgbaston, Birmingham. He figured in the news in December 1943 when he was acquitted of a serious charge (*Brit med* 1944, 1, 56 quoting *Birmingham Post* 15, 16, 17 Dec 1943). His son was Anand Krishna Pardhy FRCS. Pardhy died in a Londo

Born on 26 October 1876 at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was in general practice, he was the second child and first son of George Waugh, MB, CM 1869, and Annie, his wife, daughter of Thomas Minks of York. He was educated at Epsom College, to which he was later a generous benefact

Born 20 November 1870 at Stoke Newington, Middlesex, the fifth child and fourth son of Thomas John Cross, tea merchant, and his wife, *née* Edmunds. He was educated at Tonbridge School and at Dulwich College. At Guy's Hospital he served as house surgeon, resident obstetric officer and demonstrator o

Born 12 September 1874 at Feldafing, Starnberg, Bavaria, eldest child of Edward Theodore Compton, landscape painter, and his wife Auguste Pletz. He was educated at Uppingham and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was for a time prosector in the hospital's medical college and at the Royal College of Su

Born 1875, he entered the London Hospital Medical College in 1895 with the Price science scholarship and subsequently won scholarships in anatomy and biology, and the senior Letheby Scholarship. Qualifying in 1901, he served as house surgeon to Thomas Openshaw, FRCS and James Sherren, FRCS and as ho

Born 8 May 1877, the fourth son of William Fairlie Clarke, FRCS 1863, and Caroline Selina Walker his wife. He was educated at Bedford School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he was a natural science scholar. He took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1898, and re

Born 12 June 1876 at 23 Portland Square, Carlisle, the eldest son of. Roderick Maclaren, MD, surgeon to the Cumberland Infirmary, and Isabella Emma Campbell, his wife. He was educated at Rugby when Dr Percival was headmaster, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge as a pensioner on 25 June 1894. He