The following was published in volume 7 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows John Lewin was born in London on 8 August 1901 and educated at Southend Grammar School and Guy's Hospital qualifying in 1923. He held house appointments at Guy's Hospital before being appointed resident surgical officer at Ly

Kenneth Owen Parsons was born at Swansea on 12 January 1898, the second son of Tom Parsons, a printer and his wife Florence, née Williams, and was educated at Swansea Grammar School and later at Bristol Grammar School. On leaving school in 1916 he joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers; he was twice wound

Dudley Marks was born on 3 April, 1899 at Peckham Rye, and was educated at Haberdasher's Aske's School from whence he secured a scholarship to Cambridge. With the outbreak of the first world war he joined the Queen's Own Regiment on his 18th birthday in 1917. In the following year he suffered severe

Ranfurly Percival Stanley Kelman was born in 1898 in Ranfurly, Central Otago, New Zealand, and went to the Otago Boys' High School where he distinguished himself at both rugby football and cricket. He then went to Otago University where he graduated in medicine in 1921. He spent the next two years i

Geraldine Mary Barry was born on 4 October at Wakes Colne, Essex, the daughter of the Reverend Walter and Anna Barry. She was educated at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, and was originally destined to read mathematics at Cambridge, but this was changed by the visit of Professor Winifred Cullis (Prof

Laurence Ingle was born in Cambridge in 1892, the son of Arnold Clarkson Ingle, a general practitioner who was also physician to the Leys School. Laurence went to the Leys, and then to King's College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1909 as an Exhibitioner. He was devoted to music and to rowing, beco

This surgeon has obituaries in two printed volumes (eight and nine). Volume eight: David Levi was born on 11 March 1901 in London, and was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School. At the age of 16 he entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School and won a scholarship which continued throughout hi

Philip Reginald Hawe was born at Callan, Co Kilkenny, Eire, in 1900. The family moved to Liverpool in 1905 and as a result he was educated there at the Catholic Institute in Hope Street. In his senior year he was awarded the Robert Gee Scholarship in medicine and the John Rankin Scholarship in engin

Harold Clifford Edwards was born in Newport, Monmouthshire on 15 August 1899, the second son of William Evans Edwards, Professor of Music, and Mary Selina (née Jones). He was educated at St Woollos School and Newport Intermediate School before joining the Royal Engineers in 1917 as a skilled sapper.

George Douglas Robb was born in Auckland on 29 April 1899 and educated at Auckland Grammar School, and Auckland University College and Otago University, graduating BSc and MB ChB in 1922. The following year he went to England and worked for his Fellowship in the company of three other pioneer thorac

Born in London on 12 May 1898 the son of Marriott Edwin Nicholls he was educated at the City of London School, Clare College, Cambridge and St George's Hospital, London. His undergraduate studies were interrupted by the first world war, during which he enlisted with the Royal Fusiliers at the age of