Born 12 November 1863 at 5 Westcombe Villas, Blackheath, SE, son of Thomas Cox Parsons, silk broker, and Lucy Susannah Kilvert, his wife. He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he won the Grainger scholarship and became demonstrator of anatomy, lecturer (1886 to 1899) and for thirty years (1

Douglas Erith Derry studied medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating in 1903; he was Crichton Research Scholar in Anatomy 1903-04, and Demonstrator in Anatomy. Very soon, however, Derry went to Egypt, and by 1906 was Assistant Professor of Anatomy at the Government School of Medicine, Cairo. In

Born on 28 March 1888 at Corbar NSW son of a schoolmaster, he was educated at Sydney Grammar School and Sydney University. Qualifying in 1911 he was appointed RMO at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and in 1912 he became a demonstrator of anatomy. In 1914 he joined the Australian Expeditionary

Born at Llanrwst, North Wales, on 23 January 1863, the eldest son of Lloyd Roberts, corn merchant, and Jane Pierce, his wife. He was educated at Llanrwst Grammar School, at Wesley College, Sheffield, and at Guy's Hospital. At the University of London he obtained honours in medicine, obstetric medici

James Robinson, formerly senior surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, was born on 25 June 1921 in Brisbane, Australia. At an early age his parents moved to France, where his father, Ernest Longton Robinson, died in 1928. His mother, Mary Gordon Olive née Love, then married Rupert Shelton Cor

Alexander Galloway was educated at Fraserburgh Academy and Aberdeen University, graduating MA in 1921 and qualifying in medicine in 1925. He went to Canada as Professor of Anatomy at the University of Saskatchewan in 1927, but in 1932 he migrated to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was senior le

Jacques ('Jack') Loeb was chief of surgery at the Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, and also an author and anatomist. He was born in Berlin on 31 August 1925, the son of Joseph Loeb, founder of Loeb and Sutheim, one of the most prominent furriers in Europe, and Else

Born 24 August 1856 at 4 Friar Street, Reading, the son of James Haslam, a land and estate agent and auctioneer, and Catherine Clarke his wife. He was educated at Amersham Hall School, Caversham, and at Marlborough Grammar School, and was early apprenticed to a surgeon on the staff of the Royal Berk

Practised at Trinity House Lane, Hull, and was Surgeon to the Hull General Infirmary and to the Lying-in Charity. He was also Lecturer on Anatomy at the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire Medical School. Late in life he was living at Hessle, Yorkshire, where he died in or before 1860.

Born at Royston, Herts, in 1825, the eldest son of William Nunn, MRCS, who practised in Royston for many years. William Nunn's father, Thomas Nunn, was a surgeon in the Navy, and the wife of this Naval surgeon was a descendant of Sir Edmond Butts, Physician to Henry VIII. Both the father and mother

Was the fourth child of the Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, Rector of Winterslow, Wilts, by Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Collins, Banker and printer, of Milford, near Salisbury. The Brodies were originally a Morayshire clan, and the family was fortunate in relations.

Born at 11 London Wall on Nov. 1st, 1791, the only child of Joseph Green, a wealthy London merchant, head of the firm of Green & Ross, of Martin Lane, Cannon Street, E.C., and afterwards of London Wall, his mother being Frances, sister to Henry Cline, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital. A delicate boy