Born at 6 Merrion Square, Dublin, on 12 July 1881, the only son of the seven children of Edward Dillon Mapother and his wife, Ellen, daughter of John Tobin, MP, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. His father, surgeon to St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, professor of anatomy and physiology, and president of the Ro

Born in 1884, son of Francis Charles Bryan MRCS of Littlehampton, Sussex. He was educated at Westminster School and St Mary's Hospital, and held house appointments there and at Great Ormond Street. He spent several years in research, was demonstrator of bacteriology at Oxford, worked in Almroth Wrig

Born 8 August 1868, the eldest child of Peter O'Malley, farmer, of Kilmilkin, Maam, Co Galway, and his wife Mary O'Malley, born in the same clan as her husband. Three other sons of Peter O'Malley also achieved distinction in medicine. He was educated at Galway Grammar School, at Queen's College (now

Born in 1883 son of Thomas Henry Wyatt MVO, a civil servant attached to the War Office, and Julia his wife, he was educated at Merchant Taylors School and St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1905, after having obtained honours in anatomy and physiology in the London MB examination and gained

Born at Dunedin, New Zealand, on 17 June 1882, he came of a distinguished family. His father Robert Gillies was a land agent and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, and his mother was Emily Street from Birtley, near Guildford. Edward Lear, the artist and nonsense-verse write, was h