Born on 1 March 1888, the son of W G Warwick, of Hatfield, Yorkshire, he was educated at Doncaster Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was a sizar in I906. He won his "blue" in the university athletic team in 1907, and was placed as a junior optime in part I of the Mathematical

Peter Wright, as he was known all over the world, was one of the kindest and gentlest members of his profession. Born on 3 June 1892, he qualified at University College Hospital in 1915 and proceeded to the FRCS in 1920 and MS London in 1921. As an extremely young medical officer he served in France

Born at Oxford, 9 June 1891, eldest son of Richard Henry Anglin Whitelocke, FRCS, senior surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, and his wife Barbara Henry, eldest daughter of G L Reid, civil engineer, of Brighton. Hugh Whitelocke's third name was taken from his grandfather's home, Bulstrode Park, Westm

Francis Younghusband (1938) summarised this life as follows: 'Somervell is no mean mountaineer: he is one of five who have reached the 28,000 feet level. He is no mean painter: his picture of Everest adorns the walls of the Royal Geographical Society's House. He is no mean musician: he has transcrib

Born the eldest son of 12 children on 5 May 1892 at Meresborough House in the country near Rainham, Kent, Cecil Wakeley always looked upon himself as a countryman born and bred and would recall riding his own pony at the age of four. In 1904 he started attending King's School, Rochester, as a day bo