Born on 6 January 1880 at Eaton, near Congleton, Cheshire, the first child and eldest son of Henry James Cumberlidge, JP, wholesale provision merchant of Hyde, Cheshire, and Anna Maria Ford, his wife. He was educated at Eaton School and at the modern and grammar school, Macclesfield. On 16 January 1

Born in 1882 the son of an artist he was educated at Marlborough College and Guy's Hospital where he won the Treasurer's gold medal in clinical surgery in 1903, qualified in 1904 and served as house surgeon. He was a clinical assistant at the Evelina Hospital for Children. After taking the Fellow

Born 14 December 1878, the second son and third child of Robert Harry Hughes, MB, who was in general practice at Plymouth, and his wife Laetitia Cavanagh Jervis. His elder brother Lawson Jervis Hughes, after training at Guy's Hospital, was killed in the South African war, when he was serving as a mo

Allan Rigden Finn was born on 23 June 1879. His father William George Finn was a prosperous farmer who resided at Grove House, Faversham, Kent; he and his wife, Ellen Ann Finn had a family of thirteen children, six boys and seven girls, of whom Allan was the youngest boy. He was educated at King's S

Born on 5 April 1880 at Memphis, Tennessee, USA, the second of the three sons of Robert Woolfenden, cotton merchant, and Sarah Smith, his wife. He was educated at Bickerton House School, Birkdale, and then entered the Liverpool Medical School, where he had a brilliant career as an undergraduate, bec

Born in Hampstead in 1878, the third son of Frederick Hoare Colt, a barrister and bencher of the Inner Temple, George Herbert Colt was educated at Tonbridge School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he became a scholar. He obtained a first-class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1900, and c

Born at Weymouth on 4 March 1878, eldest of the three sons of Walter Benjamin Cole, chemist, and his wife Mary Parmiter, of Dorchester. He was educated at Weymouth College, and as a dental student at Guy's Hospital. After qualifying as a dentist in 1899 he decided to become a surgeon. He took the Co

Born on 9 January 1882 at the Cape of Good Hope, one of the sons of a naval surgeon who later became Director-General of the Navy Medical Service as Sir Henry Norbury KCB, he was educated at St Paul's and Merchant Taylors' Schools and St Thomas's Medical School which he entered in 1899. He had a dis

Born 18 June 1878 at Saltair, Yorkshire, only son, with one sister, of Arthur Mason Worthington (1852-1916), FRS, then head master of the Salt Schools, Shipley, and afterwards professor of physics successively at HM Dockyard School, Portsmouth, the Royal Naval Engineering College, Devonport, and the