Born in 1876 in Oldham, Lancashire, David Wylie was educated at Manchester Grammar School and University, winning the surgical clinical prize in 1897 and qualifying in 1898 with first class honours. After two years in resident posts at the Royal Infirmary he served as a civil surgeon in the Boer war

Gerrit Mes was born at Dubbeldoorn, the Netherlands, on 30 June 1903 and went to South Africa with his parents in 1914. His father was a general medical practitioner at Bronkhorstspruit. After matriculating in Pretoria, Mes was a teacher for one year at Dullstroom before he enrolled for a three-year

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

Born in January 1903 in Melbourne the son of the Rev Thomas Robinson, he received his early education at St Paul's School, at that time associated with the Cathedral, where he was a chorister and acquired his knowledge and love of music. He then proceeded to All Saints School and Melbourne Grammar S

Born on 19 August 1874 the son of William Roderick of Llanelly and nephew of a general practitioner in that town, he was educated at Bath College, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St George's Hospital, where he was house physician and house surgeon and later surgical registrar. In 1900 he went back t

Born on St David's Day 1883 in Rhymney, the third and youngest son of David Rocyn Jones, Arthur came of a family of Welsh bone-setters. His Pembrokeshire great-grandfather, Thomas Jones, was a farmer with a reputation for treating animals, whose son (1822-1877) and grandson (1847-1915) were bone-set

Walter Briggs was born in Blackburn on 15 June 1880. He entered Owen's College, Manchester, in 1897, graduating MB ChB in 1902 with second-class honours in the Victoria University, which still included Owen's College, University College, Liverpool and Yorkshire College, Leeds. Two years later he gai

Born at Middlesbrough on 16 June 1876 son of Robert Telford, accountant, of Withington and Mary Ann Davison his wife, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1897. He was an assistant surgeon

Born in 1884, son of Francis Charles Bryan MRCS of Littlehampton, Sussex. He was educated at Westminster School and St Mary's Hospital, and held house appointments there and at Great Ormond Street. He spent several years in research, was demonstrator of bacteriology at Oxford, worked in Almroth Wrig

Educated at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was a prizeman in chemistry, house surgeon, house physician, and demonstrator of anatomy. For a short time he was surgeon to the Western General Dispensary, and then assistant surgeon to the North-west London Hospital and to the City Orthopaedic Hospital.

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

After passing the MB in 1934 John Russell Barbour was house surgeon to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1935 and to the Adelaide Children's Hospital in 1936. In 1939 he became house surgeon to the Southend General Hospital and passed his FRCS. He was surgical registrar to the London Hospital and su