Born on 1 August 1863 in Alderney, Channel Islands, second son of William Vickery, engineer, and his wife, *née* Tucker. He was educated at Plymouth and at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, where he was senior Broderip scholar in 1887, the year of his qualification. He became an ardent admirer

Bernard Graham Scholefield was born at Blackheath on 7 May 1899, the only son of Robert Ernest Scholefield, a general practitioner who had held a Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship from Oxford. His mother, Elizabeth Graham (née Marshall), was daughter of a former Vicar of Blackheath and Canon of Roches

Walter Bernard Secretan was born at Croydon on 15 May 1875 and was educated at Bradfield College and Guy's Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1900. He was a house-surgeon at Guy's and in 1901 graduated with the London MB BS and also obtained the FRCS. In 1902-3 he made two voyages as

George Ewart Wilson was born at Atwood, Ontario and graduated with honours from the Stratford Collegiate Institute. He worked for a short time as a teacher, and then entered the Medical School of the University of Toronto in 1899. He graduated in 1903 with honours, winning the silver medal and the G

Edric Frank Wilson was born on 6 September 1898 and did his medical studies at Guy's Hospital, the course being interrupted by naval service as a Surgeon Probationer during the first world war. On demobilization he returned to Guy's and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1920. He took the FRCS i

Stanley Samuel Beare was born on 20 June 1890 at Newton Abbot, Devon, the son of Samuel Beare an ironmonger and engineer, and Alice Austin Beer, whose father was a journalist and Crimean War veteran. He was educated at Newton Abbot Grammar School and Strand School, King's College, London. In 1909 he

James McFadzean was born at Colmonell, Ayrshire, on 22 October 1900 and educated at Ayr Academy and Glasgow University, where he graduated MB ChB in 1924. After appointments at the London Hospital he took the FRCS. In 1927 he joined a general practice at Morecambe, Lancashire, and was soon appointed

Neil Mackillop was born of Scottish parents in Karachi in 1920. He was educated at Glasgow High School and the University of Glasgow where he captained the university rugby team. After qualifying in 1943 and one year in resident appointments he joined the Royal Navy for three years and returned to t

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

Richard Taor was a medical leader in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and contributed significantly to the setting of standards for measuring and ensuring the quality of medical care in western Newfoundland. He was an assistant professor with the medical school at Memorial University in St John's,

Gilbert Charrington Wellish was born in Sydney, Australia, on 1 January 1893, the youngest of four children. No details of his parents are available but it is known that several members of the family practised surgery and one nephew was a pathologist. After graduating from Sydney University in 1916

Frederick (Fritz) Kohn was born of Jewish parents on 22 May 1892 in Komotau in North West Bohemia, the son of a horse dealer and his early education was at the local gymnasium (grammar school), where he was taught by Cistercian monks. In 1910 he went to Prague for medical studies at the German Karl