Robert Wellesley-Cole was born in Kossoh, Freetown, Sierra Leone on 11 March 1907, the eldest son of Wilfred Sidney Ageh, a civil engineer and superintendent of Freetown waterworks, and Elizabeth, née Okafor-Smart, a West African of Krio race. His Nigerian great-grandfather had settled in Freetown t

John Whittingdale, the son of Dr John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale, MB Cambridge, MRCS, and of Marie Whittingdale (née Jennings), was born on 14 June 1894 in Sherborne, Dorset. He was to spend most of his long life in that place. After education at Sherborne Preparatory School and Sherborne School,

Sachindra Ghosh was born in Calcutta, India, on 20 June 1928, the son of a marine official in the British India Steam Navigation Company. He received his early schooling in Calcutta, attended Calcutta Science College where he obtained a BSc, and graduated MB BS from the National Medical College in 1

Leonard Smith Talbot was born in 1880 the fourth son of J. Talbot of Rangitira Valley, one of a well-known farming family in South Canterbury, New Zealand. He was educated at the Timaru Boys' High School and Temuka District High School, and graduated MB ChB from Otago Medical School, Dunedin in 1902

Alexander was born in Taradale, Hawkes Bay, and educated at Napier Boys High School and the Otago Medical School, graduating MB ChB in 1939. He was house surgeon at Wellington Hospital in 1940-1941. He served with the New Zealand Army Medical Corps 1942-1945 and was RMO to 8th Brigade in the Pacific

Robert Davies Cundrall was a missionary surgeon and a general practitioner. He was born in Wuhan, China, on 26 August 1924, where his parents, Edward and Mary Cundall, were Methodist missionaries. His parents had to make the very difficult decision to send him home to school in England at the age of

Barrington Sherwood Mather, known as 'Barrie', was a surgeon in Cairns and Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Birmingham on 15 February 1932, the eldest of three children of Cecil Aubrey Mather, a general practitioner, and Dorothy Collins Mather née Guest. His brother John also became a doctor and

Robert Hubert Bonfield Mills was born at Merthyr Tydfil and educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and University College Hospital, graduating MB BCh in 1946. After national service in the Royal Navy he entered general practice in Merthyr Tydfil. Having obtained his Fellowship in 1953, he left ge

Thomas Candler, known to everyone as 'Tom', was a general practitioner and general surgeon in Bideford, Devon. He was born on 3 June 1920 in Exeter. His father, Arthur Lawrence Candler, was a surgeon who learned his craft in Mesopotamia in the First World War, and then became a consultant at the Roy

Educated at King's College Hospital, he served as assistant demonstrator of anatomy at King's College, and as house surgeon at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. He went as a medical missionary to India for the Church Missionary Society, and was surgeon to the Society's Hospital at Dera Ismail Khan

John Hawkes Pendered was born on 7 September 1888 at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Wellingborough School and Caius College, Cambridge where he gained first class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1909. He then proceeded to the London Hospital where he did well in all hi

Charles Henry Greenwood was born in Leeds on 3 September 1875, the second son of Henry Greenwood, a director of the engineering firm of Greenwood and Batley, and his wife, Charlotte Elizabeth, née Wartzburg. He was educated at Sedbergh School, and entered Leeds University Medical School in 1894, qua