Jack Mitchell Hay was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 22 October 1920, the youngest child of Mr Justice Hay. His early education was at Hutt Valley Boys' High School and Victoria University College where he initially studied law for a year before proceeding to Otago University to study medicine,

Born on 2 September 1882 son of Charles Page of Oxton, Cheshire, he was educated at Westminster School and St Thomas's Hospital, where he had a brilliant career as student and athlete, gaining the Musgrove Scholarship for 1902-04, the Beaney Scholarship in 1907-08, the Cheselden medal, the Bristowe

James Charles Frederick Lloyd Williamson was born in Horley on 9 July 1904. His father was a doctor, and he was educated at Rugby, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1928, and graduating BChir in 1929 and MB in 1931. After junior appoin

Born at Heidelberg in 1883 son of Altor Jurasz (1847-1923), Professor of Laryngology successively at Heidelberg, Lwow and Poznan, and Caroline, daughter of Thomas Gaspey, lecturer in English, his education was at Heidelberg, where he qualified in 1907, and in London, Konigsberg and Leipzig. From

John Warrington Haward (pronounced Hayward) was born on November 18th, 1841, the youngest of ten surviving children of James Haward, of Great Baddow, Essex, and grand-nephew of Francis Haward (1759-1797), engraver (*Dict Nat Biog*). He entered St George's Hospital in October, 1860, gained the Willia

Born at Grimsby on September 13th, 1848, the son of Robert Keetley by his wife, née Waterland. Both father and mother came of seafaring stock; his father, by trade a shipbuilder, had been Mayor of Grimsby, but had fallen on bad times. The son, therefore, was educated by his grandparents and by an un

Robert Jones was born at Rhyl on 28 June 1858, the son of Robert Jones and Mary Hughes, his wife. He was educated at a small private school, at Sydenham College, and at the Liverpool School of Medicine. Even before he qualified he acted as assistant to his maternal uncle, Owen Thomas, the inventor o

Born on 7 January 1879 the son of William John Harnett FRCP Ed, LRCSI, of Barnet, Hertfordshire, he was educated at the City of London School and was a scholar of St John's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1899. He entered St Thomas's Hosp

Born on 19 August 1874 the son of William Roderick of Llanelly and nephew of a general practitioner in that town, he was educated at Bath College, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St George's Hospital, where he was house physician and house surgeon and later surgical registrar. In 1900 he went back t

James Rudd Ratcliffe was born on 5 October 1899 in the Cape Province, South Africa, the son of a stock farmer who was killed in the Boer war within a few months of his birth. His mother was distinguished for her bravery in nursing the wounded during the siege of Ladysmith. He went to school in South

Educated at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was a prizeman in chemistry, house surgeon, house physician, and demonstrator of anatomy. For a short time he was surgeon to the Western General Dispensary, and then assistant surgeon to the North-west London Hospital and to the City Orthopaedic Hospital.

Born at Llechwyd Farm, Towyn on 27 September 1874, the second child of John Rowlands, farmer, and Elizabeth Pugh, his wife. His parents died when he was five years old and his upbringing was supervised by trustees and his elder brother, Richard Pugh Rowlands. He was educated at Dolgelly Grammar Scho