Ernest Finch was born on 2 September 1884 son of Frederick James Finch, and was educated at Commercial Travellers Schools, Hatch End, Middlesex, gaining an entrance scholarship to Sheffield University which at that time was without a charter and unable to grant medical degrees. He qualified as MB

Born about 1903, Thornton was educated at St Andrew's University, qualifying in 1926. After working at the Middlesex and the London Hospital he entered the Colonial Medical Service, and was a civil surgeon successively in Iraq, Malaya and Cyprus. He took the Fellowship in June 1931. He settled la

Thomson qualified from the University of Sydney in 1928 and worked at Sydney Hospital as resident medical officer 1928-29 and surgical registrar 1929-30. He was in England during 1932-33 when he obtained the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Fellowship of the Royal Coll

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, Thompson qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1941, and was house surgeon at the East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital. He served in the RAMC during and after the second world war, and took the Fellowship in 1950. Thompson later went to Jamaica

Kenneth Herbert Taylor was born on 7 August 1915, the fourth in a line of a family of doctors, and was educated at Epsom College and St Thomas's Hospital, graduating in 1938. At the outbreak of the second world war he joined the RAMC and served with the Welsh Guards during the evacuation from Dunkir

Edward Ernest Thurlow Taylor was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 3 February, 1910. He was the younger son of Herbert Taylor, a cotton manufacturer, and of Edith Taylor (née Thurlow). His early life was varied and interesting. He was educated at Cheltenham College, and went from there to Balliol Colleg

Arthur Lawrence Abel was born on 15 November 1895, the son of the Reverend Arthur E Abel, a congregational minister, and he preached in his father's pulpit at the age of 18 years. He did his medical training at University College Hospital, graduating in 1917. He obtained the Fellowship of the Royal

Clement Edward Shattock was born 2 August 1887, at Clapham, London, the second son of Samuel George Shattock, FRS, FRCS, and Lucy Wood. He was educated at Wimbledon College and University College Hospital Medical School where he qualified in 1909. He had a brilliant academic career, obtaining entran

Henry Searby was born on 8 January 1897, the son of C A H Searby, Headmaster of Melbourne High School, where he was educated. He proceeded to the University of Melbourne (Ormond College) in 1914, but when war broke out he was one of a group of undergraduates who completed their year and then enliste

This surgeon has obituaries in two printed volumes (eight and nine). Volume eight: David Levi was born on 11 March 1901 in London, and was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School. At the age of 16 he entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School and won a scholarship which continued throughout hi

John Charles Nicholson was born at Chilworth, Surrey, on 10 January 1904, the son of Sir Charles Archibald Nicholson, the church architect, from whom he inherited the baronetcy in 1949, and the grandson of Sir Charles Nicholson, DCL, LLD, MD, one of the founders of Sydney University and its first Ch

S H Wass, the only child of Isaac Wass of Nottingham, was born on the 5 December 1907. He was educated at University College Nottingham, and came to Guy's Hospital as a preclinical student in 1928. He qualified in 1934, became FRCS in 1935 and MS of London University in 1936. Because of the second w