Born at Lichfield, he was educated at Mason College and the Birmingham Medical School. He went to South Africa immediately after qualifying in 1899, to serve in the RAMC during the war. He came home to take the Fellowship in 1903, but returned to practise at Uitenhage, where he married in 1909 Grace

Born in 1881 second son of Charles Stewart White of Hampstead, he was educated at University College and after qualification held various posts at University College Hospital, was resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital (1907), and at the Samaritan Hospital for Women was house surgeon

Born the eldest child of Henry Bulman and his wife Margaret, an Oxford graduate; his brother was Professor of Geology at Cambridge and his sister a gifted journalist and linguist, who wrote the life of the Swedish singer Jenny Lind. He was educated at Battersea Grammar School and the London Hospi

Don Abraham Ranasinghe was born on 26 December 1908 in Welangana, Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. He attended Ananda College and entered the medical school in Colombo in 1930. After qualifying with first class honours in 1936 he, specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology and became lecturer in the Colombo Me

Currie was born on 16 June 1903 in Leeds, the third son of James Irvine Currie, wholesaler clothier, and Florence Emma, née Dixon. His uncle Hugh Currie, a surgeon in Johnannesburg, was at the relief of Ladysmith. An elder brother, Donald Currie, gained his FRCS in 1923. He was educated at Leeds Gra

Geoffrey Chamberlain was professor and chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at St George's Hospital Medical School. He was born in Hove, Sussex, on 21 April 1930, the son of Albert Victor Chamberlain, secretary to the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, and Irene May Chamberlain née Price. He

Harvey Evers was born on 28 May 1893 in one of the mining towns in Northumberland, where his father was a general practitioner. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and studied medicine at the College of Medicine in Newcastle which at that time formed part of King's Coll

Henry James Drew-Smythe was born at Northampton on 1 June 1891, the first child of Frank Thompson Smythe and Ada (née Drew). He was educated at Taunton School and Bristol University where he won the gold medal in his final year at the Medical School. After resident appointments at Bristol General an

John Gregory O'Donoghue was honorary obstetrician to St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne in 1939 and honorary gynaecologist in 1959. He became honorary consultant obstetrician to St Vincent's Maternity Hospital in 1959 and honorary consultant gynaecologist to St Vincent's in 1968. He was a member of the

Michael Arthur Pugh was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at University College Hospital, London and the Whittington Hospital. He was born in Manchester on 6 October 1929, the son of Robert Arthur Pugh, a journalist, and Norah Margaret Pugh née Rees, a market research executive. The family

Trevor Lewys Stanhope Baynes was born on 19 February 1911 in Brockley, Kent, the only son of an insurance official, Evan Lewys Baynes and his wife Ethel. He attended Lewisham Park Preparatory School and Dulwich College, before becoming a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, winning

Margaret Salmond as she preferred to be called, was born on 20 January 1897, at Ilkley, Yorkshire, the only child of Percy Newby Salmond, a merchant, also a Major in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Scots Regiment, and of his wife, Elaine Marguerite, nee Bouch. Her early education was at St