Came of the same ancient Staffordshire family as William Woollaston, the moral philosopher, author of *Religion of Nature Delineated* (1724). Lord Macaulay was one of his schoolfellows. He was apprenticed to a leading hospital surgeon in London, and received his medical education at the London Hospi

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

Arthur Winton Jones, son of a marine engineer, was born in Cardiff on 13 January 1900. He went to Monkton House School, Cardiff, and did his medical training at the Westminster Hospital. He did his junior appointments at the Westminster Hospital, the National Temperance Hospital, Hertford County Hos

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

The youngest son of George Willis, of Florence Court, Co Fermanagh; distinguished himself as a student at Middlesex Hospital, and after acting there as House Physician, went out to Japan with Colonel St John Neil's Mission. Willis became well known to Sir Henry S Parkes, KCB, throughout some sixteen

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 7 April 1866, the son of John Hayward, MRCS 1845, of Rushall, Wilts, who died on 19 November 1869, aged 45. His mother, *née* Fuller, was the daughter of the Steward of St Bartholomew's Hospital and died not long after her husband. He was educated at Marlborough College and St Bartholomew's Hos

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

Educated at St George's Hospital. He practised at Kennington, first at Harley-ford Place, and then at 302 Kennington Park Road, SE. Up to the time of his death he was Hon Physician to the Royal Female Philanthropic Society. He was a Fellow of the Medical Society of London, of the Linnean and of the

Born in Norfolk, the son of Henry Carter Wigg, senr; was taken out to Geelong, Australia, in January, 1853. He returned in 1859 to King's Lynn, was a pupil at Mr Lupton's school, and was so interested in chemistry as to perform the illustrative experiments after his master's lecture, becoming so abs

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

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