Born on 10 October 1877 he grew up at Oxford and when he was 16 started to earn his living in a bicycle shop. Very soon he had his own shop, was winning bicycle-races, and designed and sold first a bicycle and then a motor-cycle. Capital accumulated and in 1904, aged 27, he started his Morris Garage

John Samuel Richardson was a former President of the General Medical Council and the British Medical Association who inadvertently played a key role in the resignation of Macmillan in 1963. The son of a solicitor, he was born on 16 June 1910 in Sheffield, where his grandfather had been Lord Mayor, M

Lord Dawson of Penn, consulting physician to the London Hospital and physician in ordinary to four successive monarchs and sometime president of the Royal College of Physicians, was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College on 10 March 1932. He never practised surgery or took official part in the Co

Born in the Isle of Bute on June 22nd, 1848, the younger son of John Macewen, who had been in business in Rothesay and was afterwards master of the *Breadalbane*, a yacht employed during the summer months to carry Free Church Ministers to and from the islands on the West Coast of Scotland. He was ed

Born at Bristol 19 February 1875, the ninth child and sixth son of the Rev John Mackie, Rector of Fylton, Glos, and Annis Bennett his second wife. John Mackie was twice married; there were five sons and two daughters of the first marriage, and one daughter and three sons of the second. He was educat

Born on May 4th, 1764, at Brook Green, the son of a gentleman of small fortune descended from a Spanish family. As a Roman Catholic he was educated at the Jesuits' College, Douai, being at first intended for the Church. At the age of 18, before the Revolution, he travelled about France on foot, saw

Born on July 16th, 1783, at Cirencester, where his father, William Lawrence (1753-1837), was the chief surgeon of the town. His mother was Judith, second daughter of William Wood, of Tetbury, Gloucestershire. The younger son, Charles Lawrence (1794-1881), was a scientific agriculturist who took a le

Born in London on May 1st, 1785. His grandfather, a Scotsman, served with the army at the Battle of the Boyne. His father succeeded his maternal uncle, a retired Naval Surgeon, as manager of a business for the sale of lead plaister. Guthrie learnt French from the Abbé Noel when quite a boy, and spok

Born at 7 Friar Street, Lancaster, on January 7th, 1832, the second son of William Turner (1797-1837) and his wife, Margaret Aldren (1793-1869), of the neighbouring parish of Skerton. His father, an upholsterer and cabinet-maker in partnership with John Battersby, died young, leaving slender provisi

Born 3 August 1867 in Bombay, India, eldest son of William Soltau Eccles (1843-1919), MRCS, LSA, who later practised at Norwood, and his wife Annie Selina Campbell McAdam, a descendant of John Loudon McAdam, the road builder. The Eccles family had a long medical tradition and a close connexion with

Born at Culgower in Sutherlandshire in 1850, the youngest, and eventually the last survivor, of a family of four, consisting of two sons and two daughters. The Gunns are an old Scandinavian stock and have been settled for many generations in the north and north-east of Scotland. Marcus Gunn was educ

Born on 1 August 1875, the fourth and youngest son of Henry and Elizabeth Gask, he was educated at Dulwich College. He studied at Lausanne, Freiburg, and Baden before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1893. He qualified in 1898, and was appointed house surgeon to John Langton. He