Victor Ariyaratnam Benjamin was a general practitioner in Goodooga, New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Jaffna in what was then Ceylon, the son of Charles Ariyanayagam Benjamin, a railway clerk and later station master, and Catherine Rose Gnanatheraviam Benjamin née Asirwatham, the daughter o

Born 27 May 1881, he was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire and later, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Guy's Hospital. He played association football for Guy's and also ran in the mile. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1906 and spent several years in house appointments at Guy's.

Born near Rotherham on 12 March 1875, he was educated at Wesley College, Sheffield, the Yorkshire College, Leeds, and University College, Liverpool, graduating through the Victoria University with first-class honours in 1896. After serving as house surgeon and medical registrar and tutor at Liverpoo

Goonatillake received his medical education at the Colombo Medical School, qualifying MB BS Ceylon in 1966 and later gained the MS at that university. From 1949 to 1957 he held posts in hospitals in Ceylon and was a registrar at Colombo General Hospital for three years before coming to Britain in 19

Jan Leembruggen was born in Queensland on 12 February 1920, the son of a Methodist Minister. He was educated at Invermay State School and Launceston High School in Tasmania and spent the final school years, from 1932-1938 at Wesley College, Melbourne where he gained its highest distinction. He then

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

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

"Glen", as he was known to all his friends, came to England from New Zealand in 1904 and entered Guy's hospital in 1905. He qualified in 1911 and became house surgeon to Arbuthnot Lane. He entered general practice at Watford in 1914 with Dr F H Berry, whose daughter Frida he married in 1915. He serv

Adam Hamilton Harvie was born in 1894 in Middlemarch, Central Otago, the son of a farmer. At the age of 18, he matriculated intending to become a doctor but he served for two years as a private soldier in the Medical Corps in the first world war. He worked to keep himself and eventually qualified MB

For most of his career Peter Woodland Hunt was one of the few surgeons in the vast country of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). There he rapidly learnt to cope efficiently with mine accidents, ophthalmics, plastics and obstetrics, in addition to a heavy general surgical workload. He was born in Dubli

Born on 3 October 1863 at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, son of Edward James Counsell, an inland revenue official, and May Ann George, his wife. His father was a Somerset man and his mother came from Pembroke. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, which he served as resident obstetric officer. He settled in