Peter Timmis was appointed consultant ENT surgeon at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, West Herts Hospital, and Hemel Hempstead and Hitchen Hospital in 1960. He was born on 30 September 1922 to Colin Timmis, a mechanical engineer, and Sarah Ellen Timmis née Pyatt, and was educated at Chesham Prepar

Betsy Brown was a consultant ENT surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary. She was born on 15 February 1923 in Glasgow, the second daughter of Robert and Isabella Brown. Her father was a master builder, her mother a legal secretary until she married. Together with her sister and brother, Betsy attended H

Tom Lo was a consultant ENT surgeon in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. He was born in Hong Kong, the son of a solicitor, Man Wai Lo, a member of the Legislative Council and, with his brother Sir Man Kam Lo, co-founder of the law firm of Lo & Lo. Tom's education was interrupted when he was 14 by the Japane

The fifth son of Andrew Pritchard, FRS, Edinburgh; studied at King's College Hospital, London, where he was House Surgeon, then at Edinburgh, winning the Ettles Scholarship and Gold Medal, his Thesis being "On the Structure of the Lamina Spiralis Membranacea". He returned to King's College Hospital,

Born at Bromborough, Cheshire, on 1 August 1858, the fifth child and second son of James Goodman Bull, merchant of Liverpool, and Mary Chilton, his wife. He was educated at the Hereford Cathedral School where he learnt to play cricket well. He was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge on 1 October 18

Born in San Francisco on 1 February 1880, the eldest child of J Lewis Franklin, a business man, and his wife *née* Last; his father died while he was still a boy. He was educated at Lowell High School and the University of California. Coming to Europe he worked at Heidelberg University and at King's

Born 14 August 1878, eldest child of Geoffrey Hett, and Mary Scott his wife. His father, who was MD Edinburgh 1871 and MRCS 1865, practised at 1 Ledbury Road, Bayswater, London, W, and was an Associate of King's College. He was educated at St Paul's School, at University College and University Colle

Born 20 June 1880 at 11 Eldon Square, Newcastle-on-Tyne, the youngest child, with a brother and a sister, of John Hope, MRCS 1865, and Jessie Anne Martin, his wife. John Hope died in February 1883, and the children were brought up by their grandfather. Charles Hope was educated at Clifton College an

Born 21 May 1891, the only child of Robert Robertson (1864-1925), of the Indian Medical Service, and his wife Flora Mackinnon. His father was ultimately a lieutenant-colonel, IMS, and senior physician to the Madras General Hospital (Crawford's *Roll of the IMS*, Madras list, No 1500). Robertson was

Born 14 December 1861, second son of Thomas Lake of Cheekes Court, Sittingbourne, Kent, farmer, and Mary Wildash, his wife. He was educated at Trent College, at Bonn in Germany, and at Thomas's Hospital. Immediately after he had qualified in 1885 he went under the National Aid Society, the forerunne

Born on 25 January 1876, son of S L Horsford, of St Kitt's, West Indies, he was educated at Bedford Modern School and Edinburgh University, taking his MD with honours in 1902. A year later he took the English Fellowship after serving as a clinical assistant at the Throat Hospital in Golden Square. H

George Caiger was born on 26 April 1896, at Jacobstal, Orange Free State. His father, Herbert Caiger, FRCS, had been an ophthalmic surgeon in the UK and was practising in Burghersdorp. George was the eldest child of Herbert and his wife Mary Jane, nee Heritage. He grew up in Burghersdorp, and went t