Born on 16 August 1876, eldest son of William Abraham JP of Coleraine Co. Derry, he was educated at Coleraine Academy and at Trinity College Dublin, where he was senior moderator and won the gold medal for natural science. At the same time he showed his literary bent by winning prizes for literature

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

Born at Edinburgh 16 March 1853, the second son and second child of James Cathcart, wine merchant of Leith, and his wife, nee Weir. He was educated at Loretto School and took an arts course at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated MA in 1873, and then began to study medicine. He acted as r

Born 6 September 1864 at 8 Clifford Street, London, W, the fourth child and eldest surviving son of Thomas W Cook, head of the tailoring firm of T W Cook and Sons, and Adelaide Walton, daughter of William Walton of Richmond, Surrey. He was educated at Charterhouse, Godalming (Bodeites and Hodsonites

Born on 14 August 1886 at Bedlington, Northumberland, third child and eldest son of James Saint, schoolmaster, and Mary Anne Downie Morris, daughter of Thomas Common Morris, a farmer and butcher. Charles Saint's uncle, his brother and several relations of a third generation entered the medical profe

Born on 1 November 1885, the son of T L Gauntlett of Putney, he was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon Common and entered King's College Hospital Medical School with the Warneford Scholarship in 1902. The hospital was then still in Portugal Street, just south of the Royal College of Surgeo

The son of H Clayton Greene, of Liverpool, and grandson of Isaac Penny, of Liscard Manor, Cheshire. He was educated at Oundle and Rossall Schools and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated with an ordinary degree. He obtained the Open University Scholarship with which he entered S

Born on 11 February 1883 the youngest son of Frederick Joseph Frankau, a barrister, Claude Frankau was educated at Rugby and St George's Hospital, to which he devoted his career. After qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1907 he held resident posts in the hospital. He took the Fellowship at the

Born in Guernsey on 24 October 1851, the second child and second son of James Mansell Moullin, MRCS, who was then surgeon to St Mary de Castro Hospital in the Island, and his wife Matilda Emily Grigg of Newbury, Berks. His father moved afterwards to 80 Porchester Terrace, London, W2, and practised t

Henry Simpson Newland was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 24 November 1873. He was of the third generation of a pioneer family that settled on the south coast of South Australia in 1839. He was educated at St Mary's College and the University of Adelaide, graduating MB BS in 1896. He then came

Born at Blythe Court, Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucestershire on 30 April 1855, the sixth child and fifth son of William Barling, MRCVS, veterinary surgeon and farmer, by his wife Eliza Sharpe. He was educated privately until he matriculated at the University of London in 1875 from Queen's College, Birmi

Born at Manchester, the fifth son of John George Adami by his wife Sarah Ann Ellis, daughter of Thomas Leech, of Urmston, Lancashire. His uncle, David John Leech (1840-1900), was Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Victoria University, and Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary.