Born in Acton Place, Kingsland Road, NE, in December, 1825, and, as he has set on record in his *Autobiography*, "two months before I was due." His father was Lieut-Colonel John Castle Gant, of the King's Own 2nd Light Infantry. Young Gant, an only child, was puny and weakly, and as a little boy was

Somewhat above middle height, clean-shaven with prematurely white hair and of ascetic appearance, Cecil Beadles was unmarried and lived for his garden and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was so excessively shy that he was rarely seen even by his colleagues unless they went

Born at Carmarthen in 1871, he was educated there and at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was Llewellyn scholar. He qualified in 1898, served as house physician and house surgeon at Charing Cross, and was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school. After postgraduate study in Vienna he

The son of Captain Pincke Lee, of Woolley Firs, Maidenhead Thicket. He entered King's College, London, as a student in 1833, but transferred to St George's Hospital in 1834, where he became one of the first, if not the first, Surgical Registrar, and later Curator of the Museum and Lecturer in Physio

Born at Gloucester in 1863, son of William Washbourn, a descendant of Sir Roger Washbourn, of Knight's Washbourn (*temp* 1370), went to King's College, Gloucester, then studied at Guy's Hospital, winning the Entrance Scholarship in 1881 and greatly distinguishing himself as well by taking prizes at

Born at Stansted, Essex, on May 27th, 1839; studied at the London Hospital, where in 1860 he won a Gold Medal. Entered the Army Medical Service on April 1st, 1861, as Assistant Surgeon on the Staff; was attached to the 22nd Foot in 1863; was promoted Surgeon Major on March 19th, 1876; Brigade Surgeo

Born at Bristol 19 February 1875, the ninth child and sixth son of the Rev John Mackie, Rector of Fylton, Glos, and Annis Bennett his second wife. John Mackie was twice married; there were five sons and two daughters of the first marriage, and one daughter and three sons of the second. He was educat

Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and at Addenbrooke's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He graduated BA at Cambridge after he had been placed in the second class of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1872, and then entered St Thomas's Hospital, where he acted as resident accoucheur and house physician

Edgar King was born at Mosgiel in New Zealand on 10 June 1900, but went over to Melbourne to the High School and remained for the rest of his life in that city. His undergraduate career was outstanding, and after graduation in 1923, he remained on the junior staff of the Alfred Hospital until he dep

Charles Ernest Lakin was born in 1878, the son of a general practitioner who became the Mayor of Leicester. He was educated at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School where he was a First Entrance Scholar, and won Broderip and Freeman Scholarships, and qualified in 1901 with the Conjoint Diploma, and

Born 25 October 1889, the son of H A Costobadie, Lionel Palliser Costobadie was educated at his father's old school, Haileybury College, Hertford, from 1905 to 1908. He went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took his BA with 1st class honours in the Natural Science Tripos. He then e

Ian Howard Ogilvy was resident junior medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1943 and progressed to senior medical officer and then to assistant surgeon in 1952. He was honorary surgeon to the Austin Hospital and the Footscray and District Hospital from 1952 to 1957, assistant surgeon at