Arthur Cecil Barker Biggs was born in North London on 9 March 1885. His father, John Maundy Biggs, was a general practitioner and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Florence Elizabeth Biggs, née Hopkinson, his mother, was the daughter of the originator of the Hopkinson piano. He w

Margery Scott-Young was a consultant surgeon at the Rachel Forster Hospital, Sydney. She was born on 25 May 1912 in North Sydney, the daughter of Reginald Charles Scott-Young, a sales manager, and Mary née Crotty. She was educated at the Monte Sant' Angelo College in Sydney and the University of Syd

Born at Sheffield on 13 November 1882, the third child and second son of Alfred Reckless, MRCS 1873, and Helena Herbert Hall, his wife. He was educated at Bedford College, at the Sheffield Medical School, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He served as junior house surgeon at Sheffield Royal

Born 15 December 1869 at Wemdder Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire, the fourth child and third son of William Richards, a farmer, and Elizabeth Morgan, his wife. He received his medical education at the London Hospital, at St Bartholomew's, and at the University of Durham. He visited afterwards Berlin and Pa

Born at Edinburgh on 18 June 1883, the seventh child and fourth son of John Wilson, miller, and his wife, *née* Cameron. He was educated at Watson's School and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1905, proceeding MD with commendation in 1908 and in the same year taking the special cer

Born 19 May 1875 at 14 Seaton Terrace, Mutley, Plymouth, eldest child of Lewis Charles Thomson, accountant with the Admiralty, and Julia Boase, his wife. He was educated at Blackheath High School, and at Guy's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and as obstetric registrar. He served also for

Born on 22 October 1870 at Teddington, the eldest son of Charles Wareham, railway inspector, and his wife, *née* Barrett. He was educated privately and at the London and Charing Cross Hospitals; he served at the latter as house physician and assistant demonstrator of anatomy. He was then registrar a

Eric Parry was born on 31 December 1907 in Bwlch-y-ffridd, Montgomeryshire. He was educated at Caterham School and the University of Liverpool, whence he graduated MB ChB in 1932. He joined the Indian Medical Service and became a lieutenant-colonel. When the Japanese invaded Burma he was stationed t

The younger son of Henry Smith, professor of systematic surgery, when Sir Joseph (afterwards Lord) Lister was professor of clinical surgery, at King's College, London. Hugh Smith was educated at King's College, of which he was afterwards an Associate, and at King's College Hospital, where he was hou

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 29 July 1861, the second son and youngest of the five children of Evan Thomas, a farmer, of Cefn Banal in the parish of Llanbadarn Odwyn, Cardiganshire, and Catherine Richards, his wife. David Thomas received an elementary education at the Ystradmeurig Grammar School, and from the age of twelve

Bayley was born on 22 January 1878, the son of Edward Hodson Bayley, who was a wheelwright and later became MP for North Camberwell. He was educated at University College School, where he took an active part in all school plays in French, German and English, and was captain of rugby and cricket. He