Born at Perry Hall, Bromsgrove, on 16 January 1864, the third son and fifth of the seven children of Edward Housman, solicitor, and Sarah Jane Williams, his wife. He was educated at Bromsgrove School and at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, where he was house physician and house surgeon. He then acted a

Born on 29 May 1866 at Romsey, Hampshire, third child and second son of the Rev John White and his wife Martha Fisher, he was educated at Monkton Combe School and University College Hospital, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy for several years and held the usual resident posts. He took hono

Born 23 February 1865 at Parkgate-by-Chester, the second son of the Rev Algernon Sydney Grenfell, MA, who kept the Mostyn House private school at Parkgate, and Jane Georgina, his wife, daughter of Dr Thomas Hutchinson. The Grenfells came from Tor, Devonshire, and members of several generations, afte

Born at Bletchley, 31 August 1865, the seventh child and fifth son of Thomas Lucas, farmer, and his wife, *née* Goodman. He was educated privately till he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1883, where he subsequently served as house surgeon. He was for a time resident medical officer at the Metro

Son of Edward Alexander Parry, contractor, and Jane Cartmell, his wife, he was born at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 29 June 1865. He was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, and at the University of Melbourne, where he graduated MB in 1886 and BS in the following year. He then came to Eng

Born at Glastonbury, Somerset in the 1860s he was educated at the Newcastle School of Medicine, where he took honours, and at the Middlesex Hospital. He was house surgeon at the Middlesex and Great North Central Hospitals. Visiting Australia in 1895 he took a locum tenancy for Edwin Roberts MRCS of

Educated at University College Hospital, he served as a clinical assistant at Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital. Most of his life was spent in practice at Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand, where he was resident surgeon in sole charge of the Timaru Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served as a Capta

Born at Blackburn on 21 January 1866, the second child and eldest son of Thomas Firth, cotton spinner and manufacturer, and Betty Fielden Lacy, his wife. He was educated privately and at Owens College, Manchester, before beginning his medical training at King's College and University College Hospita