Born in London on 29 December 1910, he was educated at the Chelsea Polytechnic and University College. He was awarded the junior and senior medals in anatomy and the silver medal in embryology and histology. At University College Hospital medical school he won the Fellowes silver medal in 1934 and t

Born at Thamesville, Ontario, Canada on 21 February 1880 he was educated at the American Medical Missionary College, Battle Creek, Michigan and at Chicago. He qualified MD 1907 from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Coming to London he took the Conjoint qualification in 1911 and the Fel

Born the eldest child of Henry Bulman and his wife Margaret, an Oxford graduate; his brother was Professor of Geology at Cambridge and his sister a gifted journalist and linguist, who wrote the life of the Swedish singer Jenny Lind. He was educated at Battersea Grammar School and the London Hospi

Born on 7 August 1888 he was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow University. Qualifying in 1910 he became house surgeon and then resident gynaecological officer at Western Infirmary, Glasgow, followed by a period as house surgeon at Glasgow Maternity Hospital, as house physician at Bristol R

William Hawksworth was born in New Zealand in 1911 and was educated at Nelson College and at the University of Otago, graduating from there in 1935. After various house appointments he was awarded a New Zealand Travelling Obstetric Scholarship which took him to Melbourne where he became a house surg

Born in 1883 son of Thomas Henry Wyatt MVO, a civil servant attached to the War Office, and Julia his wife, he was educated at Merchant Taylors School and St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1905, after having obtained honours in anatomy and physiology in the London MB examination and gained

Katharine Isabel Liebert was born in 1912 and was educated at the Manchester High School for Girls and Manchester University, where she obtained the degree of BSc in anatomy and physiology in 1934, and graduated MB ChB in 1937. She then held house appointments at the Royal Infirmary Manchester, St M

Born on 2 July 1887 son of A Palmer, St Clair, Dunedin, NZ, he was educated at Waitaki and Otago University. Coming to England from New Zealand he went to the London Hospital where he qualified, obtaining honours in gynaecology in the London final examination. He was house surgeon, receiving room of

Prims Dharmaratnam Rajaratnam studied at the Ceylon Medical College and gained the LMS in 1938. In 1951 he gained both the Membership and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He lived at 99

John Michael Brudenell, known as 'Mike', was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at King's College Hospital, London. He was born in Deal, Kent, on 13 April 1925, the son of Clement Shenstone Brudenell, a railway official, and Marjorie Elizabeth Brudenell née James, a housewife and the daught

Born at Honingham, Norfolk in 1869 he was educated at Bracondale School, Norwich and King's College Hospital, which he entered with an exhibition, and won prizes and scholarships each year from 1887 to 1890. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the London MB in 1892, took the BS in 1894, and g

Margaret Mary Basden was born in Nottingham on 3 April 1886, she was the daughter of Hope, née Figgis, and Duncan Frederick Basden who was a chartered accountant. The family moved to Hampstead while she was still a young child and she attended King Alfred's School. There was a medical tradition i