Born at Hulme Fields, Manchester, on November 2nd, 1793, the son of John Radford, dyer and bleacher. He was educated at a private school in Chester, and was apprenticed to his uncle, William Wood, surgeon, of Manchester, whose partner and successor he afterwards became. He studied at Guy's and St Th

Born in Dublin on 23 October 1865, the fourth child and second son of Commissary Major-General Latham Blacker, a member of the Co Tyrone landed and military family, and Harriette Demaine Bagot-Smith, his wife. He was educated at Cheltenham College and University College, London, where he won an exhi

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 27 July 1891 at Clifton Hill, Maida Vale, London, the third child of Herbert Augustus Oldershaw, solicitor, and his wife *née* Godrich. He was educated at the Brighton Technical College and at University College Hospital. At the Hospital he gained the Bucknill scholarship in 1913, and served as

Born in Edinburgh on March 16th, 1873, of a family originally from Dumfriesshire and the district of Sanquhar and Wanlockhead. After attending the City of London School and University College, he entered the London Hospital in 1892, where he was a sprinter and Rugby football player. He held the appo

Born at Abingdon on August 23rd, 1838, the son of Frederic Travers, of Poole, Dorset. He was not related apparently to the family of Benjamin Travers. He was privately educated, served an apprenticeship to Thomas Salter (qv), of Poole, and received his professional training at Charing Cross Hospital

Born at Pilkington, Lancashire on 10 May 1856, the third child and second son of James Briggs, he was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, at Owens College, Manchester, and at Edinburgh University. There he learnt anatomy from Sir William Turner, and was senior medallist; and surgery from List

Born 19 July 1891, the third and youngest son of Peter Dobson Hayes of Stockport. He was educated at Manchester before entering the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. His student days were broken by the outbreak of war and he served in the Royal Field Artillery from 10 September 1914 till 12 August

Richard Sears ('Dick') was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Nottingham. He was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on 19 March 1924, the son of Herbert Sears, a corn merchant, and his wife Evelyn Ruth Sears née Tankard, a housewife. He was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and at Epsom Colle

Margaret Salmond as she preferred to be called, was born on 20 January 1897, at Ilkley, Yorkshire, the only child of Percy Newby Salmond, a merchant, also a Major in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Scots Regiment, and of his wife, Elaine Marguerite, nee Bouch. Her early education was at St

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

The daughter of a physician, William Cecil Sharpe and grand-daughter of Sir John Brigg (for many years Liberal MP for Keighley), Dorothy was born in the Red House, Darley Dale, Matlock, on 16 February 1903, close to Smedley's Hydro and the Royal Hotel used for the treatment of rheumatism and allied