Henry James Drew-Smythe was born at Northampton on 1 June 1891, the first child of Frank Thompson Smythe and Ada (née Drew). He was educated at Taunton School and Bristol University where he won the gold medal in his final year at the Medical School. After resident appointments at Bristol General an

Henry Clarence Wardleworth Nuttall was born on 22 June 1886 and qualified at Liverpool University with the Conjoint Diploma in 1910. After junior hospital appointments in Liverpool he was Thelwall Thomas Fellow in surgical pathology, then Holt Fellow in pathology, and later Robert Gee Fellow in anat

Wilson was born in China on 8 April 1891 and was educated at Liverpool University graduating in medicine in 1914 and taking the Conjoint Diploma on 30 July 1914. On 4 August the first world war broke out and he served throughout it in the RAMC, winning the Military Cross. On demobilisation he ret

St John Dudley Buxton was born on 26 December 1891 in London, the son of Dr Dudley Wilmot Buxton MD, MRCP, who was anaesthetist to University College Hospital, the National Hospital, Queen's Square, and the Royal Dental Hospital. His mother was Louisa Frances Agnes Clarke, daughter of the Rev T G Cl

Born on 8 February 1894 in Higher Crumpsall, Manchester, the youngest son of the eight children of Mr and Mrs John Newell, he was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and the Medical School of the University of Manchester. An undergraduate at the beginning of the first world war, he volunteered

Victor Ewings Negus was born in London on 6 February 1887, the third son of a solicitor, William Negus JP, and his wife Emily (Ewings). He was educated at King's College School, King's College, and entered King's College Hospital in 1909 with a Sambrooke Exhibition, qualifying in 1912. As a student

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

R H O B Robinson was born in 1897 in London. He was known to his friends as Joey. His childhood was spent in Upper Wimpole Street where his father practised as a consulting surgeon; and he lived all his days in a world of surgery that was changing. His career spanned the years that marked the evo