Albert Ernest Coates was born on 28 January 1895 at Ballarat, Victoria. His father was a minor postal official and his grandparents had emigrated from Suffolk and Cornwall, attracted by the news of the gold discovery. Leaving school at the age of eleven he decided early to become a doctor and he

Anthony Frederick Hunter was born in Blackheath, London, and at the age of two emigrated to New Zealand with his parents, both of whom died during his childhood. He was then brought up by an aunt and uncle and educated at Mount Albert Grammar School, King's College, and the University of Otago Medic

Louis René De Jode was born on 29 November 1926 in East Ham, London. He was the son of Louis Guillaume De Jode and Germaine, née Tavernier, who left Belgium during the first world war. His father set up practice in the East End, where he became a much loved and respected family doctor. Louis always

‘Kwashie’ Quartey had an international reputation for his work on the surgery of urethral stricture, and was one of the father figures of surgery in his home country, Ghana. He was the sixth of the seven children of Peter David Quartey snr, headmaster of the Government Junior School in James Town, a