Born on June 19th, 1841, at Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, the son of the Rev Frederick Sims, Rector of West Bergholt, Essex, and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He spent his early life in Suffolk, and was educated at Colchester Grammar School. Shortly before he was 16 he was apprenticed to the then w

Reginald Theobald Payne was born at Northampton on 15 March 1896. When he was aged 65 he published a remarkable book *The watershed* in which he gave a vivid picture of his childhood and schooldays. He was the eldest of four brothers, and as his father, who had a furniture business in the town, brou

Somewhat above middle height, clean-shaven with prematurely white hair and of ascetic appearance, Cecil Beadles was unmarried and lived for his garden and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was so excessively shy that he was rarely seen even by his colleagues unless they went

Born on 1 August 1851 at Fullarton, South Australia, the third son of James Crabb Verco, who emigrated from Cornwall to Adelaide about 1838. He was educated during 1862-67 at J L Young's Academy then in Stephen's Place and afterwards transferred to Freeman Street. The latter part of his education wa

Born on 18 December 1859 at Campton, near Haddington, East Lothian, he was brought up under a strictly religious discipline with his brothers and sisters by his grandmother until her death. He was educated by a typical Scots dominie at the school in Haddington from which he proceeded to Edinburgh Ac

Egbert Morland was elected a Fellow in recognition of his services as Editor of *The Lancet*. Born in 1874, the fifth son of Charles Coleby Morland of Croydon, he came of a well-known Quaker family; an elder brother, Harold, a prominent accountant and auditor in the City of London, was Clerk (ie Cha

Born on 2 March 1871 at Huyton, he was educated at Liverpool University and University College Hospital graduating in 1893, after which he held house appointments at Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Later he became a demonstrator of anatomy and surgical tutor. He settled in Harrogate in 1894 and commen

Educated at Queen's College, Belfast, where he qualified in 1893, and at the London Hospital, he took the Fellowship within a month of taking the Conjoint diplomas in 1896. Settling in Natal, South Africa, he was appointed Physician to Grey's Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. He was also medical officer o

Born at Glenridding Westmoreland on 20 October 1880 he was the eldest son of Francis Charles MacNalty MD, MCh, sometime senior assistant physician to the Metropolitan Hospital, London, and Hester Emma Frances, nee Gardner, who was the grand-daughter of Sir John Piozzi Salisbury. MacNalty's boyhood w

Born in Sydney and was educated at three local schools. He came to Europe to finish his general education, and was enrolled as a student of medicine at University College, London, where he obtained medals for proficiency in anatomy and in medicine, and won the Fellowes Gold Medal as the most profici

Born at Beulah, Breconshire, 2 January 1877, the seventh child and only son of Moses Williams, and his wife Ann Jones. He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and the London Hospital. He won an entrance science scholarship to the Hospital's Medical College in 1897, and a scholarship in anatomy an

Charles Ernest Lakin was born in 1878, the son of a general practitioner who became the Mayor of Leicester. He was educated at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School where he was a First Entrance Scholar, and won Broderip and Freeman Scholarships, and qualified in 1901 with the Conjoint Diploma, and