Born on 4 January 1906 at Salisbury of Scottish parents, he entered St Thomas's Medical School in 1923 from Brighton College, and distinguished himself consistently throughout his student career, being awarded the Beaney Scholarship and Sutton Sams Prize in 1927. He had an exceptional climax in the

Douglas was born on 25 May 1893, was educated at Bristol University, and the Middlesex and London Hospitals. In 1913 he graduated BSc with first class honours after research in biochemistry. When war broke out in 1914, he joined the Worcester Regiment, and gave up his work as a medical student to se

Hubert Wallace Symons was born at Bradford 24 November 1890 and was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of Leeds where he graduated MB ChB in 1912. His father was a wool-merchant, but his maternal grandfather was Dr J H Lilly who was the first Medical Superintendent of the Western

James Eastwood Sykes was born in Accrington, educated at the University School at Southport, and at Liverpool University where he graduated MB, ChB in 1922. After junior posts in Liverpool he took the Edinburgh FRCS in 1926 and the English FRCS in 1929, and had clinical training as a registrar and s

Basil Roy Sworn was born on 14 October 1901 in Burnham, Staffordshire, the son of Ernest Andrew Sworn, a doctor, and Alice Sworn. He was educated at Epsom College and St Thomas’s Hospital, qualifying in 1925 with the Conjoint Diploma and graduating MB BS in 1926. He became first a clinical assistan

Satyanarayana Synkavelly came to England from India. In 1934 he passed the Conjoint Examination, and the Fellowship in the same year. He returned to West Godavari in Southern India where he practiced until his death. He died about 1971.

Born on March 22 at Kew Park, Bethel Town, Westmoreland, Jamaica, he was the third son of James Rowland Williams, the family having been in Jamaica for many generations. The family was a distinguished one, an elder sister being Dr Cicely Williams CMG, who first detected and described kwashiorkor in

Washington Everitt Wilks qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1908, and proceeded to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1911. In 1912 he settled in British Columbia and practised in Victoria and Nanamio. After about 9 years he moved to Vancouver where he worked for 45 years, ret

Henry Lorenz Eaton was a surgeon who lived in Western Australia. He gained his FRCS in 1963. He died in 2011.

Born on 14 August 1886 at Bedlington, Northumberland, third child and eldest son of James Saint, schoolmaster, and Mary Anne Downie Morris, daughter of Thomas Common Morris, a farmer and butcher. Charles Saint's uncle, his brother and several relations of a third generation entered the medical profe

Henzell Howard Dummere came from a family of doctors, his father, Howard Howse Dummere MRCS, four uncles and his brother were all medical men, as was his father-in-law. One of his uncles, Neville Howse, had a distinguished career: gaining his FRCS, he emigrated to Australia at the age of twenty-eigh

Robert Ainslie Ross was born in 1876 and came over from South Africa to study medicine in Edinburgh, where he was awarded a Dunlop Scholarship and was the first South African to win the Ettles Scholarship. He captained the University Rugby team and graduated in 1900, proceeding to take the Conjoint