Kenneth Mackenzie MacLeod graduated BA Columbia University, New York, in 1926, and then studied at Cornell where he obtained the MD degree in 1929. He continued post-graduate study in Edinburgh, and at the Middlesex Hospital and passed the Conjoint Diploma examination in 1930. He was senior house-su

Horace Braithwaite Bullen graduated with first class honours in the Natural Science Tripos at Cambridge in 1913. He did his medical training at Cambridge and at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he became house surgeon. He won the Walsham Prize in 1917 and the Bentley Prize in 1918. He was temporary S

Chandra Tiwari was a surgeon based in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. He was born in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, the son of Shiva Ram Tiwari, a landlord and agriculturalist, and Shushila Tiwari, the daughter of an ayurvedic practitioner. He was educated in Etawah and Kanpur and then attended Allalabad Uni

Drogo Austin was born in Colombo, Ceylon on 17 October 1910, the son of Lester Austin, a banker in the National Bank of India who claimed descent from the Commissar General of the British Army which had captured Ceylon from the Dutch. His mother was Ethel Elfreda, née Nicolle. He was educated at Roy

Puspanathan Sadasivan Vaithilingam was born in Durban, on 19 September 1927, the eldest son in a family of eight brothers and one sister. His father, Sadasivan Vaithilingam, was a successful farmer, and his mother was Pappathee, née Reddy. After schooling at Sastri College he emigrated to Scotland i

Born at Heidelberg in 1883 son of Altor Jurasz (1847-1923), Professor of Laryngology successively at Heidelberg, Lwow and Poznan, and Caroline, daughter of Thomas Gaspey, lecturer in English, his education was at Heidelberg, where he qualified in 1907, and in London, Konigsberg and Leipzig. From

Born on January 3rd, 1837, the second son of William Catt, of West House, Portland Place, Brighton, who was well known in business circles in Brighton, his mother being Elizabeth, the fourth daughter of William Verrall, of Southover, Lewes; both came of old Sussex families. William Catt, by royal li

Born at Southampton in 1884, he was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in Natural Sciences (1905), and won an exhibition to Guy's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to Sir Charles Symonds. Crook settled in practice in partnership with Dr Astley Roberts at Ea

Born at Belfast, 5 December 1887, the sixth child and fifth son of Samuel McMurray, schoolmaster, and Elizabeth Boden, his wife. He was educated at the Academical Institution and at Queen's University, graduating in 1910. He was appointed house surgeon at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool and u

Born 3 December 1882 the second of three brothers he was educated at Harrow and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar and was placed in the first division of the second class in the Classical Tripos, part I, 1905. He rowed for his college and was captain of the University swimming team.

Born 10 September 1861 at Pensarn, Llandyssul, Cardigan, the eldest child of Evan Thomas, farmer, and Mary Lewis, his wife. He was educated at a small private school at Llandyssul under the headmastership of Gwilym Marlais, and afterwards entered the London Hospital Medical School. He won the Hutchi

Born in 1907 he was educated at the University of Manchester. After serving as house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and senior resident at Bootle General Hospital, he travelled twice to the Far East as a ship's surgeon. He joined the Lancashire County Council tuberculosis service in 1934 at W