Born on 23 May 1881 the son of Robert Stewart, minister of Wingrove Presbyterian Church, Newcastle-on-Tyne, subsequently in 1936 renamed the Robert Stewart Memorial Church, he was educated in Newcastle and for his clinical studies attended the Royal Victoria Infirmary where he became a surgical regi

Born about 1892, Gill graduated in science at Manchester and studied medicine at Aberdeen, qualifying in 1906, with first class honours in medicine and surgery. After clinical training at the London and St Bartholomew's Hospitals, he was senior house surgeon first at Leicester Royal Infirmary and th

Charles John Gordon was born on 24 June 1910, in Angmering, Sussex. He came of a long line of clerical forbears, several of whom were bishops in Lincoln. His father was the Reverend George Gordon, who was Vicar of Angmering. His mother, Eileen Hutton, came of an army family. He was the only son and

Gottlieb graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in 1934 and practised in Johannesburg. After the second world war he came to Britain for postgraduate study, and took the Edinburgh and English Fellowship. Returning to South Africa he practised successfully as a surgical consultant at 904 Harl

Robert Grainger was born at Ballynickel, Co Down, on 21 December 1902 and educated at Queen's University, Belfast, graduating in 1925 and serving as senior demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School. He became a Fellow of the Irish and English Colleges of Surgeons in 1930, and was appointed resid

Born on 27 November 1910 at Heilbron, Orange Free State, he was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and the Christian Brothers College, Pretoria before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1928. He qualified in 1934, served as a house surgeon at the Kent and Sussex Hospital

Educated at Leeds, he served as house surgeon at the General Infirmary and the Hospital for Women and Children, after qualifying with first-class honours and winning many prizes. He then went into general practice at Holmfirth near Huddersfield. During the first world war he served in the RAMC. A

Educated at St Bartholomew's where he served as house surgeon, he was also house surgeon at the East London Hospital for Children. He settled in South Africa in 1902, practising at Fordsburg, Transvaal. After the first world war he moved to Johannesburg, practising at Mayfair for nearly twenty years

Born on 28 September 1913 only son of Sir Hugh Devine FRCS, the distinguished Melbourne surgeon, and Mary O'Donnell his wife. He was educated at Beaumont College, Old Windsor, and at Xavier College, Melbourne. He graduated in 1937 from the University of Melbourne with first-class honours, and was aw

Born in 1876 he was younger son of Colonel (afterwards General Sir) Charles Warren KCB, GCMG, FRS and Fanny Margaretta Haydon his wife. His grandfather, Major-General Sir Charles Warren KCB, had been Colonel of the 96th Regiment; his father, the second Sir Charles Warren (1840-1927), was a distingui

Born in Devonport on 29 December 1879 son of W J W Waterfield, Inspector of Machinery, Royal Navy, he was educated at Plymouth College and St Bartholomew's Hospital. While at school he was in the cricket and football elevens and at St Bartholomew's, where he was also in the football eleven, he was a

Born on 9 October 1871 at Thaxted, Essex the younger son of George Samuel Watson MRCS 1865, his mother being a daughter of Charles Trustram MRCS 1831, who died on 25 June 1872 and to whose family practice at Tunbridge Wells G S Watson succeeded. G T Watson was educated at Tonbridge School, was a sch