Edwin Holmes was born in Yorkshire, the son of the owner of a small building firm. He went to the local school and in 1914 joined the army as a private soldier and when fighting in the trenches in France was wounded and sent back to England. Subsequently he was given a grant and entered the medical

Philip Ganner was born on 24 November 1904 the son of a general practitioner in Birmingham. He attended the Hallfield preparatory school, Edgbaston and Bradfield College proceeding in due course to study medicine at the Birmingham Medical School graduating in London in 1928. Two years later he obtai

Born at Lichfield, he was educated at Mason College and the Birmingham Medical School. He went to South Africa immediately after qualifying in 1899, to serve in the RAMC during the war. He came home to take the Fellowship in 1903, but returned to practise at Uitenhage, where he married in 1909 Grace

Born at Thamesville, Ontario, Canada on 21 February 1880 he was educated at the American Medical Missionary College, Battle Creek, Michigan and at Chicago. He qualified MD 1907 from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Coming to London he took the Conjoint qualification in 1911 and the Fel

Born in 1883 son of Thomas Henry Wyatt MVO, a civil servant attached to the War Office, and Julia his wife, he was educated at Merchant Taylors School and St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1905, after having obtained honours in anatomy and physiology in the London MB examination and gained

Brews was the son of a general practitioner, Richard Vincent Brews, LRCSI, and his wife Edith Manifold; he was born in North Woolwich in 1902. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and became a medical student at the London Hospital in 1920. After gaining many prizes he qualified in 1924,

Born on 7 August 1888 he was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow University. Qualifying in 1910 he became house surgeon and then resident gynaecological officer at Western Infirmary, Glasgow, followed by a period as house surgeon at Glasgow Maternity Hospital, as house physician at Bristol R

Professor James Lawrence (Laurie) Wright passed away in Dunedin on 8 September 2011 at the age of 96. Whether delivering babies, guiding nervous rural GPs, or serving as an army doctor in World War 2, Prof Laurie Wright was guided by a sense of duty. Professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at

Keren Parkes was born on 18 December 1904 in Dulwich, the only daughter of Alexander Parkes, an accountant. She was educated at Streatham College for Girls, Somerville House, St Leonards-on-Sea and went on to King's College and King's College Hospital. At the age of twelve she decided that she wante

John Michael Brudenell, known as 'Mike', was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at King's College Hospital, London. He was born in Deal, Kent, on 13 April 1925, the son of Clement Shenstone Brudenell, a railway official, and Marjorie Elizabeth Brudenell née James, a housewife and the daught

Born in London on 28 April 1865, the eldest child of Henry Smith, colonial broker, and his wife, *née* Machen. A younger brother, Eric Bellingham Smith, became physician to St George's Hospital and FRCP 1924. He was educated at St Paul's School and University College, London, and entered Guy's Hospi

Born at 45 Hope Park Crescent, Edinburgh on 14 July 1867, son of James McCann, mantle-maker of Cockburn Street, and Elspeth Bell, his wife. He was educated at George Watson's College and at Edinburgh University, qualifying in 1888 and acting for a time as demonstrator of anatomy. He later studied in