Educated at Cardiff, the Westminster and St Bartholomew's Hospitals, he qualified in 1912 and served as house surgeon at the Westminster Hospital. On the outbreak of war he was commissioned in the RAMC and served until 1918. He then settled in practice at Croydon, took the Fellowship in 1921 and was

Harold Wilson Bruce was born in 1876 and trained at Guy's Hospital, where he qualified MB BS in 1897. He proceeded MD in 1899 and passed the FRCS in 1901. After holding a house appointment at Guy's he served in the Boer War and then went to India to join the team fighting plague in Bombay. On his re

Born about 1870 he was educated at the University of Melbourne, qualified in 1892, and took the Fellowship in 1901. He practised at Bowral, New South Wales, where he was honorary medical officer to the Berrima District Hospital, and died there on 13 July 1953.

Colin Frederic Chapple was born and educated in Adelaide, South Australia, qualifying in 1936 and after a year in junior appointments came to England to study surgery. Within two years he had passed the FRCS Edinburgh and during the war years spent a short time with the Emergency Medical Service bef

George Harold Thomas was born on 2 January, 1889 in Hong Kong, of unknown parents. He was adopted as a child but left to fend for himself after a few years. His early life was lonely and hard due to poverty and privation. He was educated at the Diocesan Boys' School in Hong Kong and the College of M

Sir Donald Acheson was Chief Medical Officer for England from 1983 to 1991, a period that included the rise of HIV infection and the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis. He was born in Belfast on 17 September 1926, the son of Malcolm King Acheson, a doctor specialising in public health, an

Born in London, 9 March 1861, the thirteenth child and sixth son of Robert Faulder White, advertising agent, and Elizabeth Mitton Shearburn, his wife. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was resident medical officer. He practised for a

John Ernest Price Watts of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, passed the Conjoint Examination in 1911, and in 1913 the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He worked at the Westminster, King's College London, and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. He was medical officer and later consultant surgeon

Born at Shooter's Hill, Blackheath, SE, on 24 July 1877, the second son and second child of Colonel Joseph Sladen, RA, JP and DL for Kent and the Cinque Ports, and his wife Lady Sarah Lambart, daughter of the eighth Earl of Cavan. He was educated privately, at Ripple Court near Dover, and at the Lon

Born at West Kirby, Cheshire on 1 August 1896 the fourth son of C T Wall of Liverpool he won a scholarship to Oundle School and scholarships in anatomy and physiology at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was awarded the Harvey and Foster prizes. Qualifying in the spring of 1918 while the first

Douglas Compton Taylor was educated at University College, London, and qualified from University College Hospital in 1906 with the Conjoint Diploma and the London MB, BS. He was house surgeon and casualty officer at University College Hospital, and took the FRCS in 1913. During the first world wa

Born 19 February 1879, the eldest son of Edward John Smith, banker, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, and Mary Hewgill, daughter of Dr Hewgill of Repton. He was educated at Pocklington, at the Yorkshire College, Leeds, and at the London Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, after winning scholarships