Born in 1906 Leslie Westfield Gleadell was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, before going on with a scholarship to Melbourne University. As a youth he suffered from a disease of the hip joint, wrongly diagnosed as tuberculosis, and the prescribed long immobilisation left him with irreversible j

Born 30 October 1904, the son of Joseph Edward Bowes MB, of Keswick, Cumberland, who survived him, Kenneth Bowes was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where his father was in practice. At the University of Liverpool he studied medicine and was awarded the Holt fellowship in ph

Born at Dundee on 13 January 1886, younger brother of Herbert Leith Murray (1880-1932) Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Liverpool, he graduated from St Andrews University and held resident posts at Dundee Royal Infirmary and in London at Paddington Green Children's Hospital, Chelsea Hospit

Born at Lichfield, he was educated at Mason College and the Birmingham Medical School. He went to South Africa immediately after qualifying in 1899, to serve in the RAMC during the war. He came home to take the Fellowship in 1903, but returned to practise at Uitenhage, where he married in 1909 Grace

David Booth was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in East Surrey, Cuckfield and Crawley. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1960. He gained his FRCS in 1967. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior registrar at the Woolwich group of hospitals

Born 18 October 1872 at Hornsby Gate, Armathwaite, Cumberland, the third son and fourth child of Pearson Hewetson, farmer, of Fenton, Cumberland, and Charlotte Toppin his wife. He was educated at Grosvenor College, Carlisle, at the University of Edinburgh, at King's College Hospital, and at St Barth

Born 3 August 1863 at Goos Vladimir, Russia, the sixth child and fifth son of William Edge, engineer, and his wife, née Pollitt. He was educated at Bolton Grammar School and at Owens College, Manchester. He then proceeded to St Thomas's Hospital and afterwards took postgraduate courses at Munich and

Born at Fairfield Road, Bristol, on 1 October 1865, the eldest child of David Rayner, wholesale textile merchant, and his wife, Edith Fryer. He was educated at Observatory House School, Bristol, under Dr Cooper, and at the Bristol Medical School. After working in the physiological laboratories, he d

Born on 20 January 1876 the second son of John Hedley MD, JP of Middlesbrough and his wife née Williams, he was educated at Uppingham and at King's College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1898. His elder brother Edward, afterwards anaesthetist t

Katharine Isabel Liebert was born in 1912 and was educated at the Manchester High School for Girls and Manchester University, where she obtained the degree of BSc in anatomy and physiology in 1934, and graduated MB ChB in 1937. She then held house appointments at the Royal Infirmary Manchester, St M

Born on 27 July 1887 son of Joseph Henry Robinson and Caroline Sandford he was educated privately in Southport and at Liverpool University. His clinical training took place at University College Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served as an acting Major and surgical specialist in the RAMC w

Born on 2 July 1887 son of A Palmer, St Clair, Dunedin, NZ, he was educated at Waitaki and Otago University. Coming to England from New Zealand he went to the London Hospital where he qualified, obtaining honours in gynaecology in the London final examination. He was house surgeon, receiving room of