Born in London on 8 December 1871 the son of M G Ormond, he was educated at Guy's Hospital, where he was appointed house-surgeon and then obstetric assistant in charge of externs. After travelling as a ship's surgeon to South Africa in 1898, he specialised in ophthalmology and was appointed ophthalm

Born on 19 March 1896 in London he was educated at William Ellis School, King's College, and the Westminster Hospital where he won a gold medal at graduation. Qualifying in the middle of the first world war, he was commissioned a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and transferred to the Royal Flyi

After qualifying in New Zealand he worked as house surgeon in the Public Health Hospital, Dunedin and then in the Public Health Hospital, Wellington. Coming to England to obtain his Fellowship, for a time he was senior house surgeon at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and later became consult

Born on 3 September 1868 he was educated at Bristol University, where he won the Gilchrist Scholarship, at University College, London and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He became a BSc with honours in physiology at the age of 22, qualifying with the Conjoint diploma the following year. He had from th

John Bookless was born on 5 March 1878 and received his education at Christ's College, Brecon, and Eastbourne College. In 1897 he went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge with a mathematical scholarship, but after leaving the University he decided on a medical career and entered Guy's Hospital Medical Sch

Born on 20 May 1878 at Dunedin, he was educated at the University of New Zealand, University College, London, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He held resident posts at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, the London Throat Hospital, and the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. He wa

Born on 27 June 1866 he was educated at King's College School and in 1884 won the Salters' university scholarship. He entered the medical department of King's College, London, in October 1884, won many prizes and the Sambrooke exhibition, and served as assistant demonstrator of physiology. In 1889 a

Timothy Martin Tyrrell was born on 14 May 1908 at Brentwood, the son of F A C Tyrrell FRCS, and thus he came of four generations of medical men associated with St Thomas's Hospital. His grandfather was Walter Tyrrell MRCS, apothecary and anaesthetist to St Thomas's, and his great grandfather was Fre

Born on 19 August 1860 the second son of William Roxburgh MD Edinburgh, FRCP London, who practised at Bedford, and his wife Annie Elizabeth Boswell, he was educated at Bedford School and Exeter College, Oxford, where he took fourth-class honours in the final school of physiology in 1882. He qualifie

Dorothy Rose Adams was born in St Albans, Herts, on 12 April 1902, the first child of Harry Adams a contractor, and Miriam, nee Rose. She was educated at Claire House School, St Albans, and North London Collegiate School and gained an entrance exhibition to Girton College, Cambridge, in 1920. Doroth

Born at Parkville, Melbourne, 3 November 1905, he was educated at Prince's Hill State School, at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he was a scholar and second to the school *dux*, and at Ormond College where he won the first-year exhibition in natural philosophy. He held resident posts at the Royal M

Born in 1878 son of James Gibb, M P for Harrow, he was educated at St Paul's School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he took first class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, in 1900. He took his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he served as house surgeon to