Little information is available about John Oliver. After graduating at Trinity College, Dublin, and postgraduate work at the Middlesex Hospital, he was appointed assistant surgeon at the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden Square; surgeon to Saffron Walden Hospital, and surgeon and aural spe

Bruce Sheaves was born on 12 February in Bathurst and attended Bathurst High School. He enrolled at Sydney University to study medicine in 1942. In 1947 he graduated and took up residency at Manly District Hospital, where he eventually became superintendent before leaving in 1951 to move into genera

Gerard Irvine was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist in the Royal Navy. He was born in Naini Tal, India, on 19 June 1913, the son of Major Gerard Byrom Corrie Irvine of the Indian Army and Maud Andree née Wylde. His grandfather, Gerard James Irvine, had served in the Navy as Inspector General of Hos

Ugo Fisch was a leading otorhinolaryngologist and professor of otorhinolaryngology at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He was born in Weinfelden, Switzerland on 3 March 1931 but, on the death of his father when he was two, moved to Lugano. He finished high school in 1949 and went to the Univer

Venkataswamy Maddimsetti Naidu was born in Madras on 22 March 1909, the son of Sitiah Naidu, a magistrate. His early education was at schools in Karinada and Raramudry in Madras and then he entered Andhra Medical College. After qualifying he was tutor in physiology and during the war years served in

The second son of George Toynbee, a large tenant farmer and landowner in Lincolnshire, was born at Heckington in that county on December 30th, 1815. He was educated at King's Lynn Grammar School, and was apprenticed at the age of 17 to William Wade, of the Westminster General Dispensary in Gerrard S

Born at Highgate in December, 1835, the son of George Rivington, a member of the well-known firm of publishers. His mother had been Miss Ann Finlay. He was educated under Dr G A Jacob at Sheffield Collegiate School, was afterwards apprenticed to a practitioner in Stepney and entered as a student at

Born at Epsom on 20 March 1850, the second child and eldest son of William Harsant, chemist, and Sarah Wilkinson, his wife. He was educated at the City of London School. At Guy's Hospital he was gold medallist in surgery, and served as house surgeon in 1874 and resident obstetric officer. He then ac

Born on 25 August 1873 in Norwich, son of F W Harmer cloth merchant and glacial geologist, and brother of Sir Sidney Harmer KCB, FRS, he was educated at Uppingham and King's College, Cambridge, proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualifying in 1898. After qualification and house appointments

Born at York on 14 February 1869 the son of Henry Steward, he was educated at Leeds Medical School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He was house surgeon at the Leeds General Infirmary in 1895 and resident ophthalmic officer 1896-98. He practised as an ophthalmologist and laryngologist at Harro

Born at Redruth, the son of John Permewan and Jane Permewan née Thomas. Both his father and his older brother Arthur Edward Permewan were medical practitioners. He studied at University College Hospital, and was then Resident Surgeon to the Miners’ Hospital, Redruth. In 1887 he went to Liverpoo

Ian Irvine Wilson, the son of Leonard and Dorothy Garland Irvine, was born at Wellington, New Zealand, on 10 October 1920. After education at John McGlasher College he went to the University of Otago to graduate in dentistry at the age of twenty-one. After three years in dental practice he returned