The following was published in volume one of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Was a student of Adelaide University and Hospital, and at the London Hospital, acting at the former as House Physician and House Surgeon. He practised for many years at Petersburg, South Australia, and later became Surgeon S

John Patrick Acton Weaver was a consultant urological surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary and a senior lecturer in surgery at the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee. He was born in Oxford, the son of John Reginald Homer Weaver, professor of history and president of Trinity College, and Stella Mary

Pradip Basu was a urological and general surgeon in Lincoln. He was born on 4 January 1942 into a medical family in Calcutta, India, the sixth child of Bibhuti Bhusan and Durga Rani Basu née Sinha. His grandfather and father qualified in Calcutta; his father became chief medical officer to the east

Born on 9 January 1875 at Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, the eldest child of James Mitchell Wilson, MB, medical officer of health for Rochdale, Lancashire, and his wife, *née* Shepperson. He was educated at Doncaster Grammar School, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took third-class

Born at Edinburgh on 18 June 1883, the seventh child and fourth son of John Wilson, miller, and his wife, *née* Cameron. He was educated at Watson's School and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1905, proceeding MD with commendation in 1908 and in the same year taking the special cer

William Milo Keynes was an honorary consultant surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and subsequently a writer and medical editor. He was born on 9 August 1924, the third son of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, a former vice president of the College, and Margaret Elizabeth née Darwin, a descendant of Char

Born on August 1st, 1874, the eldest son of James Gibb, insurance broker and underwriter at Lloyd's, who was MP (Lib) for the Harrow Division of Middlesex. His mother was Helen, daughter of the Rev David Nimmo, Congregational minister. Gibb was educated at the City of London School and served for si

Born on 16 August 1876, eldest son of William Abraham JP of Coleraine Co. Derry, he was educated at Coleraine Academy and at Trinity College Dublin, where he was senior moderator and won the gold medal for natural science. At the same time he showed his literary bent by winning prizes for literature

Born at Newcastle on Tyne in 1884, he was a scholar of Caius, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1906. At University College Hospital he was Atkinson Morley scholar, won the Liston gold medal, and was obstetric registrar. He also worked at St Thomas'

The second son of George Toynbee, a large tenant farmer and landowner in Lincolnshire, was born at Heckington in that county on December 30th, 1815. He was educated at King's Lynn Grammar School, and was apprenticed at the age of 17 to William Wade, of the Westminster General Dispensary in Gerrard S

Born on 2 September 1874, the second child of Joseph Addison and Marianne Brown his wife. He was educated at Marlborough College and at University College, London. After serving as house surgeon to (Sir) Victor Horsley at University College Hospital, where he formed a friendship with George Waugh, q

Born at Rutland House, New Brighton, Cheshire on 28 September 1871. He was the second son of the nine children of William Bell, JP, MRCS, LSA and Helen, his wife, daughter of General Butcher. An elder brother, John Herbert Bell, solicitor, was adjutant of the prisoners-of-war camp at Donington Hall