William Johnson studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and graduated MB BS in 1949. After qualification he was for a time registrar in thoracic surgery and general and urological surgery at Bradford Royal Infirmary. He subsequently moved to the United States and held posts at the Doctor's Hospital, Ne

George Kirkland was born in Glasgow on 5 November 1904, the son of Robert Kirkland, a grain merchant, and Margaret Russell. He was educated at Eastbank Academy, Glasgow, and at Glasgow University, where he qualified in 1927. He was a general practitioner in Oldham from 1929 to 1948, and a general su

Harold Walker was born in 1875, the elder son of Dr Samuel Walker, JP, MRCS, a general practitioner in Middlesbrough. He was educated at Uppingham and King's College, Cambridge, going into residence in 1893, taking an honours BA and being captain of tennis. For his clinical training he went to St Ba

Stanley Samuel Beare was born on 20 June 1890 at Newton Abbot, Devon, the son of Samuel Beare an ironmonger and engineer, and Alice Austin Beer, whose father was a journalist and Crimean War veteran. He was educated at Newton Abbot Grammar School and Strand School, King's College, London. In 1909 he

David Matthew Mitchell was born in New Zealand in 1895 and was educated at the Otago Boys' High School and at Otago Medical School. He qualified in 1920 and in 1921 entered general practice. In 1925 he came to Great Britain and obtained the FRCS Edinburgh. In 1929 he returned to England a second tim

Born at Foxton, Leicestershire on 26 March 1878 he trained at Guy's Hospital, qualifying in 1903 with the Conjoint Diploma and graduating at the University of London. He took the Fellowship in 1904 and the MD in 1905. After house appointments at Guy's he was in general practice first at Southport an

Charles Derwent Pye-Smith was born in Sheffield in 1878, but came south for his education at Mill Hill School and Guy's Hospital. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1903 and in the same year passed the examination for the MB degree in the University of London, but did not complete the BS till

Alan Doyle Everett was born in London on 8 October 1905, the first son of Herbert, a linen merchant, and Rhoda (Doyle) the daughter of an engineer. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St Bartholomew's Hospital qualifying MRCS in 1929 and gaining the FRCS and also the MS London in 1930. A

Eric Vernon was born on 29 November, 1909, in Marple, Cheshire, the son of Arthur Vernon, furnisher and antique dealer. He was educated at Stockport Secondary School (Hallam Scholar) and Manchester University where he graduated BSc in 1930 and MB, ChB in 1933, winning prizes for pathology and paedia

Anthony Harvard Baker was born at North Walsham, Norfolk, the eldest son of the Reverend Anthony Charles Baker a Methodist minister; his second name recalled a distant relationship to John Harvard who had bequeathed his library to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the eighteenth century and had given his

John Bulman was born on 5 March 1911, in Burnopfield, Co Durham, the second child and first son of Harrison Francis Bulman, a mining engineer, and of his wife Norah (née Jones). His uncle was Beresford Jones, FRCS, surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. After preparatory school in Warwicksh

Ronald Edward Connor received his medical education at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, passing the Conjoint Diploma in 1944 and graduating MB BS in 1949, in which year he also obtained his Fellowship. After serving as a Sub-Lieutenant RNVR from 1946 to 1948, he became supernumerary surgical re