Born on 7 March 1871 at Scythlin, Pencader, Carmarthenshire, third child and only son of Benjamin Evans, yeoman farmer, and his wife, *née* Phillips. He was educated at St David's College School, Lampeter, at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Carmarthen, and at Edinburgh University, where he graduat

Born at Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, 17 January 1857, the second child and eldest son of Thomas Bickerton, FRCS Ed and Elizabeth Green, his wife. His father began life as a general surgeon and then devoted himself to the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, and throat, being more particularly intere

Born in Vienna on 14 June 1851 the son of Adalbert Fuchs, professor of agriculture at the Technische Hochschule, Vienna. He was educated at Vienna under Billroth and Brücke, and was afterwards assistant in the Physiological Institute at Innsbruck. He was assistant to Arlt in the Ophthalmological Cli

Born about 1862 he was educated at University College, London where he served as assistant demonstrator of anatomy. He was house physician at the Great Northern Hospital and, becoming interested in diseases of the eye, was house surgeon at the Moorfields Eye Hospital 1889-91, and became surgeon to t

Educated at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was obstetric house physician, and in Brussels, he was a clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and specialised as an ophthalmologist. He practised at Trealaw, Rhondda, Glamorgan, South Wales and was ophthalmic surgeon to the Urban Dis

Lewis Philip Jameson Evans was born at Edgbaston, Birmingham on 2 June 1907, the son of John Jameson Evans, FRCS, a distinguished ophthalmic surgeon and lecturer in ophthalmology in Birmingham University; his mother was a daughter of the Rev Thomas Charles Edwards DD, first Principal of the Universi

Born 30 January 1863 in London, the eighth of the nine children of Horatio Henry Flemming, owner and manager of a saddlery and harness business, and Julia Steggal, his wife. He was educated at University College School, London, passing at sixteen to University College Medical School, where he was un

Born in Victoria on 27 February 1862, eldest of the nine children of James Barrett, MD, formerly of Banbury, Oxfordshire. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and University, where he graduated MB in 1881. After serving as resident medical officer at Melbourne Hospital, he came to Europe and

Studied at Westminster Hospital and practised at West Tree Villa, Maidstone, Kent, where he founded the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital. He later had consulting-rooms in London at 11 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square. Late in life he lived at Maitland House, The Parade, Tunbridge Wells, whilst continui

Born on 20 April 1879, second son of George Edward D'Arcy Adams, MD Aberdeen, who practised at 1 Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale, London, W, and his wife who was a sister of Robert Doyne, FRCS. He was educated at Lancing, and at Exeter College, Oxford. Here he came under the influence of his uncle Ro

Born 13 February 1874 at Pencoed, Glamorgan, eldest son of Rev D P Davies. Educated at Christ College, Brecon and University College, London, he served for a period as clinical assistant in the department at University College Hospital. After taking the Fellowship he was appointed assistant ophthalm

Born 21 September 1858 at 8 Morden Terrace, Lewisham, fourth child and third son of Francis Taylor, of the Audit Office, and Eliza Deakin, his wife. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, entering in 1870, and at St George's Hospital Medical School, where he was Brackenbury prizeman and Thomps