The youngest child of James Wardrop (1738-1830) by his wife Marjory, daughter of Andrew Marjoribanks of Marjoribanks. He was born on August 14th, 1782, at Torbane Hall, a small property owned by his forefathers for many generations. It adjoined the parish celebrated as the birthplace of the Hunters

The eldest son of Edward Henderson, MD, of Shanghai, he was born in China 18 February 1870, and was educated at Cheltenham College, where he gained a junior classical scholarship in 1882. Two years later he entered Harrow School, when Dr Butler was head master, and remained there until 1887. He then

The second child and only son of Francis Edward Nairn, a gentleman of independent means, and his wife, *née* Curtis, was born at Greytown, New Zealand on 12 March 1862. He was educated at Nelson College and at Wellington College until he came to England and entered St Thomas's Hospital for his medic

Born in 1866, he was educated at Aberdeen University, the Middlesex and King's College Hospitals. He was a house surgeon at the Gloucestershire General Infirmary and Eye Hospital and then ophthalmic clinical assistant at the Middlesex Hospital. He settled in practice at Lewes, Sussex and was appo

Vincent Nesfield was born in India on 12 October 1879, the son of John Collinson Nesfield, Director of Education in India, and Ellen Blumhardt, a missionary who had been through the siege of Lucknow during the Mutiny. He entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1897 and completed a successful ca

Born at Brisbane, Australia, 22 February 1880, he was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and entered the Queensland public service. At the age of 22 he entered the University of Sydney, and graduated in medicine in 1907. He was a resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, started general

Educated at St Thomas's Hospital where he was elected Assistant Surgeon on January 1st 1847, retiring without becoming surgeon on December 17th 1851. He was also for many years Consulting Surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. His private practice as an ophthalmic surgeon was very large an

Born at Victoria, Vancouver Island, the son of Charles Dodd, of the Hudson Bay Company. At the age of 3 years he was brought to Norwich in England, where he was educated under the Rev Augustus Jessop, DD, at the Norwich Grammar School. He received his professional training at first under Dr Gibson o

Born in India, the second son of Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, Bart, GCB, GCSI, who in turn was the youngest son of David Pollock, of Charing Cross, saddler to George III, and had married in 1810 his first wife, Frances Webbe, daughter of T Barclay, Sheriff of Tain. George David Pollock's two un

Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He was at one time Surgeon, and then Senior Surgeon, to the Leicester Infirmary, having retired from this post some seven or eight years before his death, at which time he was Surgeon to the County Lunatic Asylum. He was a well-known figure locally, a goo

Educated at Brighton College, and studied at Guy's Hospital, where he highly distinguished himself at the London University examinations and acted as House Surgeon, House Physician, Obstetric Resident, and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, and was good at sports. He was next House Surgeon at the Ro

Born at Gawcott, Buckinghamshire, on July 14th, 1855, the second son of the Rev T C Whitehead, Head Master of Christ's College, Finchley. He studied at Charing Cross Hospital, and, becoming FRCS, was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital in 1881. He was also Assistant Surgeon to the