Born at Birmingham, the younger son of Edward Grainger, surgeon. His elder brother, Edward (1797-1824), was the well-known founder of the Webb Street School, one of the most flourishing of the private medical schools in London. Richard Grainger entered the Military Academy at Woolwich as a cadet,

Born in 1879 the son of Dr George Robert Gowland, LRCP, LRCS, LM, Edinburgh 1874. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Owens College and Manchester Medical School, where he won a gold medal in anatomy, and qualified through London University in 1903 with first-class honours in obstetrics an

Born on 28 October 1911, second son of Joshua Davies, farmer, and Mary Emma Ryder, of Dolfonddu, Cemmaes, he was educated at Cemmaes Primary School, Montgomeryshire and Towyn County School, where he gained an entrance scholarship to University College, London. There he was awarded a gold medal in ph

Francis Davies was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1897. After preclinical studies at University College, Cardiff he entered University College, London and qualified in 1922. He was awarded the MD in 1926 and the DSc in 1933. For his scientific contributions he was elected FRS Edinburgh in 1939, and FRCS

John Harris was a well-known anatomist who became professor at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine: he was appointed to the chair on the retirement of Ruth Bowden. It is possible that he had contemplated a career in obstetrics and gynaecology in his early years and was very much a clinical an

Born about 1880 he was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1903, taking also the triple qualification of the Scottish Royal medical corporations. He went to South Africa as civil surgeon to the military hospital at Middelburg (1903-04) and from 1905 to 1908 was a district

Peter Reginald Davis was professor of human biology at the University of Surrey. He was born on 27 July 1923 in Wimbledon, the younger son of A H Davis, a government physicist, and his wife, Amy. Peter's childhood was spent in west London, and he went to St Paul's School. He became a medical student

Ronald Green was born on 1 August 1895, the son of Frank Green and Christiana Swanson. He was educated first at University College and then at University College Hospital, qualifying in 1918. He at once showed an interest in anatomy and became first demonstrator in anatomy at University College and

Born on May 27th, 1850, at Great Berkhamsted, the eldest son of George Dancer Thane, MD St Andrews, who practised in Hart Street, Bloomsbury. He entered University College, London, in 1867 and was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy to Professor G Viner Ellis (qv) in 1870, a year before he obtained th

Born at Croydon in 1870 he was educated at Chatham House College, Ramsgate, and at Charing Cross Hospital, London. Here he was house physician, house surgeon, assistant demonstrator of anatomy, acid surgical registrar. He then proceeded to Newcastle, where he was appointed assistant demonstrator of

Born at Kendal, 18 October 1862, the fifth child of William Musgrove, draper, and Ruth Stramon, his wife. He was educated at Edinburgh, where he was house surgeon to John Chiene at the Royal Infirmary and demonstrator of anatomy under Sir William Turner at the University. In 1896 he was appointed le

Born 21 March 1858 the son of Fleet-Surgeon John Thomson, MD, RN, he was educated at the Edinburgh Collegiate School and at Edinburgh University. He served for several years as demonstrator of anatomy at the University, being appointed junior demonstrator in 1880, and acting as senior demonstrator u