Kenneth Peter Somerville Caldwell was a consultant surgeon in Exeter. He was born in Mussoorie, India, on 1 October 1914, the son of Kenneth Somerville Caldwell, a professor of chemistry, and Gertrude Elizabeth Caldwell née Sailman. He was educated at Stoneygate School, Leicester, and then Charterho

Born in Surrey, on 19 November 1908, the second son of Edmund Henderson Hunt, MCh, FRCS (Eng) and Laura Mary, daughter of Sir James Buckingham. His elder brother, John, was elected a Fellow of the College *ad eundem* for services as a co-opted Member of Council and to medicine. Educated at Charte

William Rotherham Hunter was born in Skelmersdale, near Ormskirk, on 18 February 1911, and was educated at Ormskirk Grammar School and the University of Liverpool, graduating MB BCh in 1933. He took the Conjoint Diploma the same year, and after junior posts at the David Lewis Northern Hospital, and

Michael Vincent Hurley was born in 1893 and graduated MB BCh in the National University of Ireland in 1919, in Dublin. After holding a number of junior hospital posts in London he passed the Conjoint Examination and also the FRCS in 1923, and became a registrar at Poplar Hospital in 1924. In 1925

Born at Rochester, Minnesota, 28 July 1898, son of Charles Horace Mayo and his wife Edith Graham. After leaving Princeton he studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1927, when he joined the Mayo Foundation as a Fellow in Surgery, the fourth member of that remarkable family

Robert Kennon was born on February 25, 1889 in Warrington, Lancashire, the son of Robert Kennon, a company secretary and his wife Ann, née Allen. He was educated at Boteler Grammar School, Warrington, and at Liverpool University where he was Tate and Gree Scholar. After qualifying MRCS, LRCP and MB,

Born on 11 October 1906 at Oswaldtwistle, the son of a textile chemist, Alec Lomax Kenyon studied medicine at the University of Manchester where he won prizes in surgery, pathology and paediatrics. He was house surgeon and casualty officer at the Royal Infirmary and subsequently resident surgical of

Very little is known about Dennis William Hamilton Hurley except that he passed the FRCS in 1956 and was working at the Seddon Memorial Hospital, Gore, New Zealand, at the time of his death, thought to be in 1978.

William Robert Soutter Hutchinson, the son of a general practitioner, was born at Cannock in Staffordshire and educated at Sedbergh, where he developed his love of the country and the walking and fishing he enjoyed all his life. He then proceeded to Cambridge and completed his medical studies at St

Peter Hugh Ashby was a plastic surgeon in London. He was born in Penang, Malaysia, the son of Hugh King Ashby, who worked in the Colonial Agricultural Service, and Birthe Ashby née Rentse. He studied medicine in Birmingham, gaining his MB ChB in 1974. He gained his FRCS in 1982. He was a registra

Cecil Charles Coghlan of Point Piper, Sydney trained at Sydney University and gained MB, ChM in 1915. His training hospital was the Sydney Hospital. Later he was at the Women's Hospital, the Sydney Hospital and St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. He served in the first world war from 1915-18 and was i

Apollo Cokkinis was born at Odessa, Russia, of Greek parents, on 31 October 1895; his father John Cokkinis, was an operatic tenor and impresario. During his early life Cokkinis travelled widely with his father, and received his early education at the Canadian College in Smyrna. After college he deci