Born 1 September 1861, ninth son of Hugh Campbell, MRCS 1845, MD St Andrews 1863, of 23 Wimpole Street and of Hampstead and Margaretting, Essex, and Henrietta Johnston, his wife. He was educated at University College School, London, and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated MB in 1884. He also

Born at Carmarthen, South Wales, in 1860. He was educated at Hereford School and University College, London, and at University College Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He practised for a time at Hereford and served as a ship's surgeon with the Peninsula and Oriental Company. He went to Au

Born at South Norwood, 25 March 1860, seventh child and fifth son of the Rev Charles Maddock Arnold, minor canon of Westminster and vicar of St Mark's, South Norwood. His mother was Jane, daughter of John Haywood, MD, of Chippenham, Wilts. Like two of his brothers he went to Westminster School, whic

Born on 16 February 1869 at Eccles, near Manchester, the first child of Thomas Clegg, agent, and Elizabeth Gray, his wife. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at the Victoria University where he graduated MB with honours in 1893, having taken the Conjoint qualification in 1891. Transfer

Born 23 April 1869, seventh child and third son, but the first son to survive, of Walter John Harman of Highgate and his wife *née* Bellamy, who came of a City family, owners of Bellamy's Wharf. He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College Cambridge, of which he was a founda

Born 19 March 1871, at Stanhope, Durham, eldest child of the Rev G W Butler, of Broadmayne with West Knighton, Dorset, and his wife Elizabeth Oldfield, adopted daughter of the Rev George Harrison. He was educated at Dorchester Grammar School, at St Paul's School, where he was an exhibitioner, and at

Born at Manchester on 10 July 1853, the younger son of William: Johnson, ironmaster and manufacturer, and Emma, his wife, youngest daughter of George Fife Angas, of Lindsay Park, Angaston, South Australia, for whom see *DNB*. He was educated at Amersham Hall near Reading and then in Germany, at Bonn

Edward Alabaster was born on 14 April 1893 at Parkhill, Moseley, Birmingham the fifth son of Arthur Alabaster, a manufacturing jeweller, and Catherine Birch. He was educated at King Edward VI School and Birmingham University. When the first world war broke out in 1914 Alabaster was only two-third

Born 7 October 1869 at Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand, the fourth child and second son of Samuel Stewart Griffin and Catherine Finegan, his wife. His father, born in Canada, was medical man, clergyman, politician, and pioneer settler. He was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, where h

Born 20 October 1882 at Stamford Hill, London, eldest son of Arthur Griffith, solicitor, who survived his son, and his wife, *née* Donald. The family had a distinguished legal tradition. He was educated at Tollington Park College, at King's College, Strand, where he was a junior scholar, and at King

Born 12 November 1866 the fourth son of Thomas Frederick Grimsdale (1823-1902), MRCS 1845, of 29 Rodney Street, Liverpool, a leading gynaecologist (see *Brit med J* 1902, 2, 919; *Lancet*, 1902, 2, 712) and Jane Bury, his wife, who lived till her hundredth year. An elder son Thomas Babington Grimsda

John Arkle was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 28 July 1890 and was educated at St George's Private School at Gosforth. Subsequently he went to Edinburgh with a view to becoming an actuary, but after 12 months left Edinburgh to study medicine at Durham University. Arkle was a brilliant student and