Michael Burton was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Hillingdon and Ealing hospitals. He was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on 28 July 1926, the second son of Rennie Cooksey, a general practitioner, and Elsie Jane née Laycock, the daughter of an adviser in music. He began

Born at Dorchester on Aug 12th, 1787. He was educated at Lymington, Hants, was then placed under a well-known surgeon at Salisbury, and in 1807 entered St Thomas’s Hospital, where, under the tuition of Sir Astley Cooper and Cline, he soon acquired a superior knowledge of anatomy and surgery. Sir Ast

Came of a family prominent in business, philanthropy, and society. He was born in New York on September 23rd, 1852, and was educated in New York, the Andover Academy, and Yale, where he graduated in Arts. He gained his medical education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons attached to Columbia

Born at Victoria, Vancouver Island, the son of Charles Dodd, of the Hudson Bay Company. At the age of 3 years he was brought to Norwich in England, where he was educated under the Rev Augustus Jessop, DD, at the Norwich Grammar School. He received his professional training at first under Dr Gibson o

John Barton Booth was a consultant ENT surgeon at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals. He was born on 19 November 1937, the son of Percy Leonard Booth and Mildred Amy née Wilson. He was educated at Canford School and at King's College, London, where he became an Associate (a diploma awar

Norman Walter Nisbet was a former director of research at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Oswestry. He was born in Edinburgh on 23 March 1909, the son of a science master. He first qualified as a dentist, but abandoned dentistry in favour of medicine. After completing his training in ge

Paul Brand, a celebrated orthopaedic surgeon, devoted his life to the care of patients with leprosy. He was born in a remote mountain district in south east India, 150 miles from Mysore, on 17 July 1914, the son of Jesse Brand and his wife, Evelyn, both Baptist missionaries. Paul was sent away to En

Born at Carlisle, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he acted as Assistant to Sir Thomas Fraser, FRS, Regius Professor of Medicine, and subsequently became Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical School. He was highly appreciated by Sir Thomas, and, pursuing a careful course of st

Educated at the Windmill Street School and at St George's Hospital. He very early showed himself to be an accomplished anatomist and a skilful surgeon, but when he applied (1834) for an appointment as Assistant Surgeon at his old hospital he was rejected after a very severe contest, in favour of Edw

Born on January 6th, 1854, the second son of John Lloyd, of Small Heath, Birmingham, who taught anatomy for many years in Queen's College. After education at King Edward's School, Birmingham, he entered the office of the *Birmingham Daily Post* as a proof reader, but at the age of 21 he left journal

Born in London on July 1st, 1833, the son of the Rev T W Wrench, Rector of St Michael's, Cornhill; studied at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was Assistant Resident Accoucheur. He received a commission as Assistant Surgeon to the 34th Foot dated November 3rd, 1854, went to the Crimea, and for three m

Born at Brading, Isle of Wight, on March 23rd, 1870, the son of Edward Canny Ryall, MRCS, of Ennis, who traced his descent from one of Cromwell's officers settled in Ireland; he had served through the Crimean and the Indian Mutiny in the Army Medical Service, dying in 1880. He married Elizabeth, dau