Born on 6 March 1875 he was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and the University of Edinburgh, and was a house surgeon at the North Lonsdale Hospital, Barrow-in-Furness. He entered the Indian Medical Service as a Lieutenant in 1903, after winning the Martin memorial gold medal at Netley. From 1

Harold Walker was born in 1875, the elder son of Dr Samuel Walker, JP, MRCS, a general practitioner in Middlesbrough. He was educated at Uppingham and King's College, Cambridge, going into residence in 1893, taking an honours BA and being captain of tennis. For his clinical training he went to St Ba

Born at Shooter's Hill, Blackheath, SE, on 24 July 1877, the second son and second child of Colonel Joseph Sladen, RA, JP and DL for Kent and the Cinque Ports, and his wife Lady Sarah Lambart, daughter of the eighth Earl of Cavan. He was educated privately, at Ripple Court near Dover, and at the Lon

Born 12 September 1874 at Feldafing, Starnberg, Bavaria, eldest child of Edward Theodore Compton, landscape painter, and his wife Auguste Pletz. He was educated at Uppingham and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was for a time prosector in the hospital's medical college and at the Royal College of Su

Born at Swansea on 11 May 1871 the third child and only son of Thomas Durslyn Griffiths, MD (1837-1914), a former president of the British Medical Association, and Frances Annette Secretan Gabb, his wife. His mother was the third daughter of the Rev J F Secretan Gabb, of Balcarres, Charlton Kings, G

Born at Highbury, London on 29 July 1877, the third child and second son of Thomas Emley Young, actuary, and his wife Harriet Maria, daughter of John Rayner, MRCS 1859, MD Lambeth 1861, of Highbury. T E Young served the office of president of the Institute of Actuaries. He was educated at Univers

Born at Dalry, Ayrshire on 25 March 1872, the fifth son and ninth youngest child of Andrew Blair Aitken and his wife Jane Young. He was educated at the Ayrshire Academy, Ayr, and at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1893. After holding resident appointments at Oldham Infirmary and the Wirral

Born on 1 November 1875, the younger son of Thomas Jones, a consulting civil engineer who lived in Hanover Square and who was noteworthy for his land survey for the Cambrian Railway and for the Manchester Ship Canal, Seymour Jones studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital from 1894, qualifying with t

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 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

Born on 2 September 1874, the second child of Joseph Addison and Marianne Brown his wife. He was educated at Marlborough College and at University College, London. After serving as house surgeon to (Sir) Victor Horsley at University College Hospital, where he formed a friendship with George Waugh, q

Born in Western Australia on 11 April 1877, he was a student at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was afterwards assistant lecturer in anatomy. After holding resident posts at St Mary's and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, he was appointed surgical registrar at St Mary's and subsequently