Born at Dalhousie, New Brunswick on 24 July 1852 the son of Charles Symonds, a barrister, who died in California in 1860. He came of pioneer stock, for his ancestor William Symonds left London in 1653 in *The Safety* and settled in Woburn, Massachusetts. The move to New Brunswick was made by James S

Born at Twickenham, 4 May 1883, the third son of Frederick Richard Syms, solicitor, and Amelia Charlotte Kendall of Pelyn, Cornwall, his wife. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School and at King's College, London. After passing the London matriculation, he entered Guy's Hospital Medical School,

Born 21 June 1859 at Canonbury, the third son of Edward Wilmhurst Tait, MRCS, LSA, and Miriam Sabine, his wife. His father was in general practice in Canonbury and was surgeon to the Holloway and North Islington Infirmary. H B Tait was educated at Sherborne School from summer term 1875 until 1876. H

Born at Tidcombe Manor, Wilts, on 31 March 1861, the third of five sons of John Tanner, yeoman, of Poulton, Marlborough, and Marian Canning, his wife. He was educated at Clifton College from May 1873 to July 1878, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and at the Durham School of Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyn

Born 20 July 1858 at Wendlebury, Bicester, Oxfordshire, the youngest of the six children, five sons and a daughter, of John Tanner, farmer, and Ann Foster, his wife. He was educated at Buckingham Grammar School and St Mary's Hospital. He was scholar in ophthalmology, third session scholar, prosector

Born in London on 8 March 1889 the only child of John Prime Tanner and his wife Margaret Baxter James, he was educated at Roan School, Birkbeck College, the Royal (now Imperial) College of Science, and at Guy's Hospital. He originally intended to be a dentist, but after distinguishing himself in the

Born in London on 25 November 1862, the third child and second son of James Hudson Taylor (1832-1900), MRCS, and his wife, *née* Dyer. J H Taylor founded and for long directed the China Inland Mission, with which his son Frederick was later associated for fifty-seven years; his life was written by t

Born at Llanelly, South Wales on 18 June 1881, second son of Henry Roger Thomas and Edith Anne Thomas, his wife. He was educated at the Friends School, Bootham, entered the Leeds Medical School in 1898, and afterwards studied at the London Hospital, whence he took the London and Conjoint qualificati

Born at Stockport, Cheshire, on February 17th, 1818, the son of George and Sarah Bowring. He came of the family of Bowrings of Edensor, Derbyshire, which dates back to 1600. He was educated at the Bradford Grammar School and received his professional training at King’s College Hospital. He settled a

Educated at University College and Hospital, practised at Wisbro’ Green, Horsham, Sussex, where he was District Medical Officer of the Petworth Union. He died on March 29th, 1877.

Educated at Guy’s Hospital. He practised latterly at 46 Montagu Square, W, where he died on May 12th, 1886.

Born on July 24th, 1857, at 1 Grosvenor Place, the son of James R Lane (qv), Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital and to the Lock Hospital, and great-nephew of Samuel Armstrong Lane (qv), one of the founders of St Mary's Hospital and head of the Grosvenor Place School of Anatomy, which was transferred from