Gerald Herbert was born in Liverpool on October 7, 1904, the first son of Lt-Col H Herbert, FRCS, IMS, an ophthalmic surgeon, and his wife Agnes, née Killey. After leaving the IMS his father became a consultant ophthalmologist in Nottingham. Gerald Herbert was educated at Lees Preparatory School, Ho

Campbell was the youngest son of the Rev Robert Campbell, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. His medical education was at Glasgow University, and he qualified there in 1902. While waiting to take his English Fellowship he held posts at the London Hospital, Mildmay Mission Hospital and

Norbert Leo Maxwell Reader was born at Marshfield, Gloucestershire, on 13 October 1885. His father, Jeremiah Reader, was a doctor of medicine. He was educated at Wakefield Grammar School, Stonyhurst and at Leeds University, where he won the anatomy prize. He went from there to Guy's Hospital where h

Born at Penally, Pembrokeshire son of Charles Mathias (1817-88) MRCS 1839, Surgeon IMS, he was educated at Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge where he gained an entrance scholarship and was awarded a first class in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos, despite a long period of illnes

Laurence Edgar Davison was born in London on 4 April 1907, the son of Edgar Knights, a master tailor, and Katherine, née Davison. His early education was at Cheltonia College and later at Dulwich College before entering Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1931. During house appointments

John Charles Leedham-Green was born in Birmingham on 30 October 1902, eldest son of Charles Albert Leedham-Green FRCS (1867-1931), sometime Professor of Surgery at Birmingham University, and his wife, Ethel, née Lees. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read chemist

Purves was born in Edinburgh on 25 December 1894 and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1917. During the first world war he served as a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and afterwards returned to the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, where he held a number of appointments, including an assistant

Francis Leonard was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1902 and obtained his medical education at Otago University, qualifying there in 1925. After various resident posts at Auckland Hospital he entered private practice in the same city in 1928. After two years he moved to England and again started

Born on 15 October 1932 in Auckland, Doous attended the Mount Albert Grammar School, Auckland University College and the University of Otago where he graduated MB ChB in 1956, and where in his final year he was awarded the Sir Carrick Robertson Surgical Prize. He was junior and senior house surgeon

Osler Dickinson, the first of nine children of a Canadian farmer, was born at Hope, Ontario, on 29 September, 1908. There are no physicians recorded in the previous family history so the parents' choice of first name for their oldest child was probably not in hopeful anticipation of his eventual pro

Leonard Snowden Debenham was born on 4 February 1893 and was educated at St Paul's School and Guy's Hospital, which he entered as a dental student but decided to study medicine. In 1916 he graduated BSc with honours and in 1918 qualified with the Conjoint Diploma. The following year he took the MB B

David Matthew Mitchell was born in New Zealand in 1895 and was educated at the Otago Boys' High School and at Otago Medical School. He qualified in 1920 and in 1921 entered general practice. In 1925 he came to Great Britain and obtained the FRCS Edinburgh. In 1929 he returned to England a second tim