Born in Liverpool, 11 April 1878, the only son and eldest child of Henry Thompson, provision merchant and company director of Liverpool and Chester, and Elinor Julia Walker, his wife. He was educated at Arundel House School, Chester, where he was captain of both elevens. He won a high place in compe

He was born on 1 January 1903 son of Harry Evans, conductor of the celebrated choir at Dowlais and Merthyr Tydfil. His grandfather was a pharmacist at Dowlais and inspired him to take up the study of medicine. His parents moved to Liverpool and he was educated at Liverpool College, City of London Sc

The eldest son of George Soltau, a nonconformist minister of Plymouth, and of his wife Grace Elizabeth Tapson, he was born at Myddleton Square, London, WC, on 21 March 1876. His father, who had been governor of Dr Barnado's Home in London, took charge of a mission church in Tasmania, and his son was

Ivan Stuart Wilson was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1883. After qualifying in medicine from the University of Otago he came to England for postgraduate experience. He was demonstrator of anatomy at the London Hospital under Professor William Wright and then worked at the Chelsea Hospital for Wom

Born on 13 July 1867 at Thorner near Leeds, the third son and fourth child of Edward Walker Shaw, civil engineer, and Helen Hudson, his wife. The family moved to Australia and Batty Shaw received his early education at King's School, Balmain, New South Wales. Returning to England he studied at the Y

Sir Humphry Rolleston was a physician and a College of Physicians man. He was elected LRCP before the establishment of the Conjoint Board and was never an MRCS. But he was a constant friend of the College of Surgeons, a life-long and almost daily reader in the Library, to which he gave many books, a

Born on 21 May 1873 second child and only son of Thomas Headland Gordon-Wilson and his wife née Kelly, he was educated at Highgate School, and won an entrance scholarship in science to the London Hospital. At his qualification he took honours in forensic medicine in 1897. He served as senior house s

Henry Cohen was born in Birkenhead on February 21, 1900, the son of a draper and clothier, and was educated at the church school of St John when the fees were 2d a week. One of his school masters remembered him as a brilliant boy 'who showed signs of genius when most boys are only beginning to show

The eldest son of George Turner, MRCS, who practised at 9 Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, W, he was born at Chigwell, Essex, in September 1854. His younger brother was Sir G R Turner, KBE, FRCS, surgeon to St George's Hospital; two uncles also were Members of the College (see under G R Turner). E B Turne

Born at Leeds on 10 November 1870, the second child and second son of Thomas Arthur Sowry and Elizabeth Stead, his wife. He was educated at the Leeds Grammar School and the Yorkshire University, Leeds, where he won the Akroyd scholarship. He then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, and acted as clini

Born at Gloucester on 28 March 1862, sixth son of the eight sons and one daughter of Leonard Hadley, flour miller, and Elizabeth Bretherton, his wife. He was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, Newcastle-on-Tyne Medical School, Göttingen University and the London Hospital, which he entered in Octo

Born on 13 August 1857 at 4 Stockwell Park Road, Brixton, the only child of Frederick Walters and his wife, *née* Rufenacht. His father and grandfather were silk-weavers, members of the Weavers Company and freemen of the City of London. His father in 1870 bought a surgical instrument business, in wh