Born in London and was educated chiefly at Verdun, where he gained a mastery of French and an affection for French people and their institutions. He was apprenticed to Edward Stanley (qv), Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in 1825. Having become MRCS in 1830, he attended wounded at the Hôtel-Di

The son of Matthew French Wagstaffe, in medical practice at 10 Walcot Place, Kennington; was educated at Epsom College, being one of the first hundred boys admitted to the school. He was Prefect and Captain of the cricket and football team and a good amateur actor. Among his school friends and conte

Born at Warrington. He studied at University College, Liverpool, and at Edinburgh, where after graduation he acted as Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy under Sir James Russell and as Senior Demonstrator under Sir William Turner. Young then went to Manchester in 1877 as Demonstrator of Anatomy and As

Educated at King's College, London, of which he was an Associate. He entered the Indian Medical Service, and was at one time Professor of Anatomy at the Medical College, Calcutta, and Surgeon to the Medical College Hospital. He retired with the rank of Deputy Surgeon General, and practised at 32 Bas

Born on March 25th, 1802, the son of John Tuson, a well-known general practitioner in London. He began the study of medicine under Carpue at the little school in Dean Street, Soho, and then entered the Middlesex Hospital. As House Surgeon there he, at the early age of 22, came prominently before the

Vrasapillai Gabriel was born on 18 December 1885 in the town of Mannar in Northern Ceylon. He came from a well known Northern family who were the hereditary administrators in the day of the British Raj. His father was Mudaliyar V Varsapillai JP, UPM, Adigar of Musale. He was born into a family of tw

Banerji was born on 23 March 1880 at Rawalpindi where his father was Head of the American Presbyterian Mission School. He joined the Calcutta Medical School in 1897 and qualified from there in 1904. After serving many appointments in Calcutta Banerji went to England and obtained his English Fello

Vyramji Bharucha was born in India on 21 February 1886 and obtained his medical education at Bombay University, the Middlesex Hospital and King's College, London. In 1910 he joined the Indian Medical Service with the rank of Lieutenant, becoming Captain in 1913, Major in 1922 and Lieutenant-Colonel

Percival Templeton Crymble was born on 21 March 1880 and graduated at the Royal University of Ireland in 1904. After acting as demonstrator of anatomy in Belfast he took his Fellowship in 1908 and then studied in London and Vienna. When he returned to Ireland in 1910 he was appointed assistant surge

Samuel Anderson Vincent, the younger son of James Vincent, a musician, was born on 13 June 1909 in Belfast. He was educated at Roseland Preparatory School and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution before entering Queen's University. After resident appointments at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Rea

Victor Coppleson was born in 1893 in the small town of Wee Waa in the central part of New South Wales; he was educated there and at Sydney Grammar School. He then entered St Andrew's College in the University of Sydney, and graduated in 1915. After a period of resident appointments at the Royal Prin

John Pegington was born at Pontypool, Gwent, on 10 September 1934, the only child of Arthur John Pegington, a building contractor, and Edith May, née Pearce, the daughter of a cobbler. He recalled growing up surrounded by coal mining and music and, after education at Pentnewynydd Primary School and