Born in 1885 son of Thomas Henry Attwater, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, he was educated at Merchant Taylors School and won an exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1906. His father had been a scholar of Pembroke. He qua

Born on 29 August 1878, William Edwin Haigh studied medicine at University College, London and St Bartholomew's Hospital, and qualified in 1909. Haigh was Assistant Demonstrator in Anatomy at University College, London, and later held appointments at the General Infirmary and the Hospital for Women

Born at Kotahena, Colombo, Ceylon on 30 July 1884, the eldest child of Francis Dionysius Alles, broker of Whittall and Co, and Mary Rodrigo Perumal his wife. His father's brother was a Roman Catholic priest well known in Ceylon, the Rev P M Alles, OMI. He was educated at St Joseph's College, Colo

Born on 9 February 1888 the third son of A V Maybury MD, he was educated at Epsom College and St Thomas's Hospital. Here he won the Musgrove scholarship and the Cheselden and Treasurer's medals and shared the anatomy scholarship. He qualified in 1909 and was appointed house surgeon to (Sir) G H Maki

John Murray Weddell was born in 1884 at Upper Holloway, Middlesex, the son of Dr W H Weddell. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in Arts in 1906. He qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1909. He was then commissioned in the RAMC and serve

George Gibson Lyttle was born at Belfast on 9 June 1885. Educated at the Methodist College, Queen's University, Belfast, and London University, he graduated MB BS London in 1909. He entered general practice in 1911 and during the first world war was in the RAMC from 1914 to 1917, serving in the Dard

Born 18 February 1885, the son of Sir John Bromley, CB, JP (1849-1915) of Seaford, Sussex, who was accountant-general to the Board of Education 1903-09, and his wife Marie Louise, daughter of Richard Bowman of Maidenhead. He was educated at St Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he gra

Clement Edward Shattock was born 2 August 1887, at Clapham, London, the second son of Samuel George Shattock, FRS, FRCS, and Lucy Wood. He was educated at Wimbledon College and University College Hospital Medical School where he qualified in 1909. He had a brilliant academic career, obtaining entran

Malcolm Donaldson was born on 27 April 1884 and was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a 3rd Class in the Natural Science Tripos in 1905. The most notable feature, however, of his university career was his keen interest in rowing, and in 1906 he won the Universi

Frederick Charles Pybus was born on 2 November 1883 in Stockton-on-Tees and graduated in medicine from the Newcastle College of Medicine of Durham University in 1906. He was house surgeon to Rutherford Morison and in 1910 worked with Ernest Miles at the Gordon Hospital, London. He served in Mesopota

Manchersha Gilder was an eminent cardiologist in India who switched to the political field to hold important ministerial posts, twice to face imprisonment and to become Mahatma Gandhi's personal physician and cardiologist. He was born in Bombay on 5 November 1882, one of the five children of Dhan

Born 24 April 1883 the second son of the Rev George Lindsay of Dunedin and Christchurch, New Zealand, and Jessie Mollison his wife. He was educated at Otago University, where he graduated in science in 1904. Coming to England he received his medical training at the London Hospital, where he was a pu