Born 18 August 1876 at Indianapolis, U.S.A., the only child of Peter Roberts, a native of Wales, and his wife Helen, daughter of Alexander Grey, of Stirling, Scotland. His parents moved to Jarvis, Ontario, in the Niagara peninsula a fruit farming district, and Roberts was educated at public and high

Born on 24 January 1861 at Marseilles, son of W H Roberts, an officer in the Merchant Navy. He was educated at Dollar Academy, at Lausanne, at Middlesex Hospital, and at the Durham School of Medicine at Newcastle, where he graduated in 1885, having taken the Conjoint qualification the year before.

Joseph Craig was one of the five sons of a Highland clergyman. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and St Andrews University, where he read medicine and qualified MB ChB in 1919 in spite of repeated ill health. He was house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Dundee and then held posts at St Luke's Hos

Born at Dunedin, New Zealand, 16 January 1877 son of James Crawford, inspector of works, and Margaret Jessie his wife, he was educated at Otago High School and University. He held resident posts at Christchurch Hospital and was appointed medical superintendent of Wanganui Hospital, thus beginning an

Born at Cheltenham on 8 October 1864, the sixth child and third son of John Johnson Brown, of Blenheim House, Cheltenham, and Kate Fanny Luscombe, his wife. His father was a man of independent means, the son was educated at Cheltenham, where he was a day boy from September 1878 until he left to matr

Born in London on 10 April 1874 the fifth child and second son of John Theodore Rodocanachi, merchant, and Fanny Mavrogordato, his wife. He was educated at University College School, University College, and University College Hospital. He won an exhibition and the gold medal in organic chemistry at

Arthur Thomas, born 12 April 1936 in Durham, was the second child of Professor David Winton Thomas, Regius Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge University, and Edith (Higgins) and, as might be expected, was educated at Cambridge, beginning in the King's College Choir School, then The Leys School and final

Aird McCleery Thompson qualified MB BCh in Belfast in 1921 from Queen's University where he became honorary demonstrator in anatomy. One of his first appointments was as first surgical assistant to the New End Hospital in Hampstead and his last was as senior house medical officer to the High Wycombe

Born in Scotland on 22 November 1870, the eldest child of Andrew Howat, a muslin merchant, and his wife née Smith, he was educated at Pollokshields Academy and Glasgow University where he qualified in 1892. He took the English conjoint diplomas in 1893 and the Fellowship in 1896 but continued to pra

Born at Kew, Melbourne on 31 May 1928, eldest son of Leslie and Mildred Howett and grandson of Robert Howett of Market Harborough, Leicestershire; he was educated at Melbourne University. He was resident medical officer and surgical registrar at St Vincent's Hospital in 1952-53, and resident medical

Born on 30 March 1878 at Hales, Staffordshire the son of Captain John Edward Hughes RN, he was educated at Eastman's Royal Naval Academy and at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was bracketed fifth junior optime in the Mathematical Tripos, part I, in 1900, and then became a schoolmaster. He soon d

He received his medical education at University College, London, and was consulting surgeon to the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he was officer in charge of the surgical division of the General Military Hospital at Edmonton. At one time he was senior demonstrator of