Educated at Calcutta University, Grant Medical College, Bombay, and University College Hospital, London, he served as resident medical officer at the Public Dispensary, Leeds and the Guest Hospital, Dudley, and as deputy medical superintendent of Islington Infirmary. He was commissioned in the India

Born on 28 December 1876 third of the four sons of William Henry Rothery Nutt, an official of the Bank of England, and his wife née Bloxam, he was educated at Bedford Modern School and St Mary's Hospital, where he was house surgeon, assistant demonstrator of physiology, and clinical assistant and de

Born on 30 June 1876 at Oldham, Lancashire, second son of Roscoe Wrigley, chartered accountant, and his wife Sarah Louisa Milnes. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Owen's College, Manchester, and at the Royal Infirmary, where he was house surgeon. He was Samuel Bradley memorial schola

Born at Cardiff, South Wales on 7 August 1876, the son of John Jennings, timber merchant, and Mary Lawley, his wife. He was educated at Cardiff University and in Geneva, with the intention of entering his father's business. He quickly abandoned work in the office, entered St Bartholomew's Hospital a

Born at Godalming 16 March 1875 youngest son of Benjamin Broomhall of the China Inland Mission, an energetic opponent of the opium trade, he was educated at the City of London School intending to go into business, but instead entered the London Hospital, where he became a house surgeon. After holdin

Born on 29 November 1876 second child and eldest son of Thomas Henry Edwards, a farmer, of Compton Farm, Enford, who died in 1879 aged 26, he was brought up by his grandmother. Edwards was educated at Ardingly College and St Thomas's Hospital, where he was house surgeon. He was in general practice a

Welby Earle Fisher was born in New Zealand and studied medicine at the University of Dunedin before coming to England to attend University College London. During his career he held appointments at the Chelsea Hospital for Women; the Queen's Hospital for Children; St Peter's Hospital for Genito-Urina

Born 23 November 1874 the fourth child and second son of John Mortimer Hunt, a business man, and his wife, née Henderson. He was educated at Harrow, at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in the final school of physiology and worked for a year with Professor J S Haldane, and a

Born at Middlesbrough on 16 June 1876 son of Robert Telford, accountant, of Withington and Mary Ann Davison his wife, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1897. He was an assistant surgeon

Walter Bernard Secretan was born at Croydon on 15 May 1875 and was educated at Bradfield College and Guy's Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1900. He was a house-surgeon at Guy's and in 1901 graduated with the London MB BS and also obtained the FRCS. In 1902-3 he made two voyages as

William Stewart Dickie was born in Glasgow on 10 December 1872. He began work as an office boy in an iron foundry at the age of 13, but when he was 15 he decided to go to sea and sailed as an apprentice in the four-master *Madagascar*. He took his second mate's certificate and his chief officer's ex

Richard Horace Paramore was born in 1876, and started his medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital with an entrance scholarship in science in 1895. The following year he won a junior scholarship in anatomy, distinctions indicating an intelligence which, when combined with the tendency to be argu