Born at Patna, Bihar, he was educated at Bankipur College and Calcutta Medical College. After qualifying in Calcutta, he entered the Bengal Medical Service, but after some years he was granted study leave to come to England and attended St Bartholomew's Hospital. Having passed both the final Fellows

The eldest son of George Soltau, a nonconformist minister of Plymouth, and of his wife Grace Elizabeth Tapson, he was born at Myddleton Square, London, WC, on 21 March 1876. His father, who had been governor of Dr Barnado's Home in London, took charge of a mission church in Tasmania, and his son was

Born at Leeds on 10 November 1870, the second child and second son of Thomas Arthur Sowry and Elizabeth Stead, his wife. He was educated at the Leeds Grammar School and the Yorkshire University, Leeds, where he won the Akroyd scholarship. He then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, and acted as clini

Sir Humphry Rolleston was a physician and a College of Physicians man. He was elected LRCP before the establishment of the Conjoint Board and was never an MRCS. But he was a constant friend of the College of Surgeons, a life-long and almost daily reader in the Library, to which he gave many books, a

The fourth and youngest son of the Rev Thomas Ascough Rickards, Vicar of Cosby, Leicestershire, where he was born in 1840. He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, on July 1st, 1861, and graduated with a pass degree in Arts in 1864. He received his professional training at University College H

Born in Spitalfields on July 5th, 1830, the only son of the Rev William Stone, Rector of Christchurch, Spitalfields, and later Canon of Canterbury. Canon Stone was a man of commanding presence, great learning, and wide culture, and earnestly desired that his son should become a scholar and an orname

Born in London, 5 June 1862, the only child of John Carr, JP, chemist, and M A Bowers, his wife. He was educated at University College School and Hospital, winning an exhibition and gold medal in materia medica and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of London intermediate examination. He was

Lord Dawson of Penn, consulting physician to the London Hospital and physician in ordinary to four successive monarchs and sometime president of the Royal College of Physicians, was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College on 10 March 1932. He never practised surgery or took official part in the Co

Born on August 17th, 1857, at Castle Donington, Leicestershire, the youngest son of John Smith, a surgeon of considerable repute during forty years at Castle Donington. He received his early education at Christ's Hospital, where he was distinguished both as a scholar and as an athlete. He won an ope

Born on July 10th, 1847, the son of James Neatby Warner; was educated at home until at the age of 20 in 1867 he won a junior scholarship at King's College, London. At the first MB University of London Examination he gained 1st class honours in chemistry and materia medica, in the second MB 1st class

Frederick Grant Banting, the discoverer of insulin, was born at Alliston, Ontario on 4 November 1891, fifth child and fourth son of William Thompson Banting, farmer, of Irish extraction, and Margaret Grant, his wife, of Scotch extraction. He was educated at Alliston High School and Toronto Universit

Born 30 January 1872 the second child and eldest son of Albert Greg, of Escowbeck Caton, and his wife,* née* Rowlands. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part 1, 1894. He received his clinical trai