Born at Oxford, 9 June 1891, eldest son of Richard Henry Anglin Whitelocke, FRCS, senior surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, and his wife Barbara Henry, eldest daughter of G L Reid, civil engineer, of Brighton. Hugh Whitelocke's third name was taken from his grandfather's home, Bulstrode Park, Westm

Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 11 January 1863, the fifth son and eighth child of Edward Richardson and his wife, *née* Hutton. His father, an iron and steel merchant and paper manufacturer, lived afterwards at Cotfield House, Gateshead-on-Tyne. W G Richardson was educated at Leys School, Cambridge, w

Born at Malmesbury, Wiltshire on 13 July 1867 the second son of Colonel J R Luce DL, JP and Mary Visger his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1889, and graduated in medicine in 1893. He

Robert Wallace (Bob) Nevin was born in Burton-on-Trent in 1907, the son of a general practitioner. He was educated at Clifton College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He joined St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1929 and had a distinguished undergraduate career, winning the Cheselden and Clutton

David Aiken qualified in Dublin in 1940 and retained a home in Londonderry all his life. He became a Fellow of the College in 1947 and practised in the Sheffield area. After holding posts as senior surgical registrar at the United Sheffield Hospital and resident surgical officer for the Christie Hos

Reginald Martin Vick was born on 20 July 1884 at West Hartlepool, and was educated at Leys School and Jesus College, Cambridge, and came to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical studies. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1908, and after house appointment at Bart's became a demonstrator

Peter Campbell Clifford was born in Ruislip, Middlesex in December 1949 and after early education at the Royal Masonic School in Bushey entered Bristol Medical School, qualifying in 1973. After junior appointments at Bristol, Swindon and the Middlesex Hospital he passed the Fellowship in 1978 and de

Robert Debenham, or 'Deb' as he was universally known, was born in Presteigne, Radnorshire, on 3 January 1902, the son of Horace Alan Debenham, a general practitioner, and his wife Maud Constance, who was the daughter of a GP. After preliminary schooling at Brockhurst he was educated at Malvern Coll

Philip Reginald Hawe was born at Callan, Co Kilkenny, Eire, in 1900. The family moved to Liverpool in 1905 and as a result he was educated there at the Catholic Institute in Hope Street. In his senior year he was awarded the Robert Gee Scholarship in medicine and the John Rankin Scholarship in engin

Born 12 June 1876 at 23 Portland Square, Carlisle, the eldest son of. Roderick Maclaren, MD, surgeon to the Cumberland Infirmary, and Isabella Emma Campbell, his wife. He was educated at Rugby when Dr Percival was headmaster, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge as a pensioner on 25 June 1894. He

Dent was educated at Mason College, Birmingham and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London from which he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1897; after study at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Medical School he took the Durham University MB in 1898. He served as a civil surgeon with the South African Field Fo

Ernest Cowell was born on 24 February 1886, son of Jasper Cowell of Steyning, Sussex, and was educated at Steyning Grammar School and University College Hospital Medical School where he graduated in 1907, taking the Conjoint Diploma the same year, and went on to take his MD degree in 1909 and the Fe