Allan Gordon Campbell, known as 'AG', was born on May 4, 1916, in Adelaide, the first child of Iris (née Fisher) and Gordon Campbell. His sister, Judith, was born in 1920. Schooled at St Peter's College, Allan entered the University of Adelaide Medical School at 16. At university, he excelled at

Born in 1897, Daniel Alexander Davies first took the BSc and then studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital. He qualified in 1922, became house surgeon there, and later whole time demonstrator of anatomy. In 1926, after taking the FRCS Davies settled at Deal. He combined the skills of a first-rate ge

Victor Ariyaratnam Benjamin was a general practitioner in Goodooga, New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Jaffna in what was then Ceylon, the son of Charles Ariyanayagam Benjamin, a railway clerk and later station master, and Catherine Rose Gnanatheraviam Benjamin née Asirwatham, the daughter o

Norman Frederic Ticehurst was born at St Leonards-on-Sea on 1 July 1873, his father and grandfather having been doctors in Hastings. He was educated at Tonbridge School, Clare College Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1901. In 1902 he took the FRCS

Born at Foxton, Leicestershire on 26 March 1878 he trained at Guy's Hospital, qualifying in 1903 with the Conjoint Diploma and graduating at the University of London. He took the Fellowship in 1904 and the MD in 1905. After house appointments at Guy's he was in general practice first at Southport an

Francis Theodore Talbot was born in 1872 and educated at Cambridge University and Leeds, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1898 and graduating MB BCh in 1900. He was house surgeon and house physician at Leeds General Infirmary, and then went to Stockton-on-Tees and became a partner in a genera

Osler Dickinson, the first of nine children of a Canadian farmer, was born at Hope, Ontario, on 29 September, 1908. There are no physicians recorded in the previous family history so the parents' choice of first name for their oldest child was probably not in hopeful anticipation of his eventual pro

Leonard Snowden Debenham was born on 4 February 1893 and was educated at St Paul's School and Guy's Hospital, which he entered as a dental student but decided to study medicine. In 1916 he graduated BSc with honours and in 1918 qualified with the Conjoint Diploma. The following year he took the MB B

Arthur Nurick was chief medical officer to Williamson Diamonds Ltd, Tanzania, and later a general practitioner in Western Australia. He was the third and last child of Max Nurick, a north London GP, and Annie Nurick. After Haberdashers' Aske's School, he entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School

Brian Thomas Duffy, the son of John and Alice Duffy was born on 13 July 1922 at Rockhampton, Queensland and was the third of four children. The family moved to Sydney, New South Wales, in 1938 where he was educated at the Christian Brothers' College, Waverley, before entering the College of St John

Born on 15 October 1932 in Auckland, Doous attended the Mount Albert Grammar School, Auckland University College and the University of Otago where he graduated MB ChB in 1956, and where in his final year he was awarded the Sir Carrick Robertson Surgical Prize. He was junior and senior house surgeon

Campbell was the youngest son of the Rev Robert Campbell, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. His medical education was at Glasgow University, and he qualified there in 1902. While waiting to take his English Fellowship he held posts at the London Hospital, Mildmay Mission Hospital and