Alexander Walt was a former president of the American College of Surgeons. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1923 and went to school and university there. After qualifying in 1948 he completed his house jobs at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, before winning a Dominion studentship to

Born 4 February 1860 at Kingston, Ontario, eldest son of Edward Berry, solicitor and shipowner, and Ada, his wife, daughter of Elhanan Bicknell of Herne Hill. Edward Berry came from Leicester; he lived at Croydon when in England, and at Kingston, Ontario, when business took him to Canada. James Berr

Born at Ealing on May 4th, 1825, the seventh surviving and youngest child of George Huxley and Rachel Withers. His father was senior assistant master in a private school of good standing kept by Dr Nicholas, of Wadham College, Oxford. The school numbered Cardinal Newman and his brother Francis Willi

Born in London 2 March 1846, the second son of Jean Joubert, a French artist naturalized in 1855, and Amelia Frances Bennet, his wife. She was English by descent and belonged to a collateral branch of the Tankerville Bennets. He was educated partly at Versailles and partly at King's College, London,

Son of the Honourable Marcus Annesley, born in County Down, Ireland, about 1774, and educated at Trinity College and the College of Surgeons in Dublin, also at the Windmill Street School in London. On April 29th, 1799, he received a nomination in the medical service of the HEIC on the Madras side fr

Charles Illingworth, the son of a Halifax businessman, had a life spanning four periods: the first before and during the first world war as schoolboy, sea-scout, munitions worker, farmer's boy, student, airman and prisoner of war; the second his surgical training with Sir David Wilkie in Edinburgh,

Came of a family of Lutheran Pastors, of long standing in East Prussia and Livonia, his father being Pastor of Rujen in Livonia; but his mother, having to take refuge from an epidemic, he was born at Riga, then the capital of the Russian Baltic Provinces, in December, 1836. On leaving school he fai

Born in Shrewsbury on May 18th, 1856, the son of Major James Boyd, 86th Regiment, and Emma, daughter of Henry Newton, a burgess of Shrewsbury. He spent his boyhood with his parents at St Heliers, Jersey, where he was educated in a private school. “I can go back to the charm of his Jersey home at St

Born in London on 29 May 1872, fourth son of the Very Rev the Hon William Henry Fremantle, Dean of Ripon, and Isabella, his wife, daughter of Sir Culling Eardley, 3rd Baronet, the religious philanthropist (for whom see *DNB*). The Dean was the second son of Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Lord Cottesl

Born at Coonoor in the Nilgiri hills, India on 20 June 1872 the third and only son of Edward Kennaway Groves, civil engineer, and Isabella, his wife, daughter of the Rev W Reeve of the London Missionary Society, and was brought home to Bristol at the age of three. He was educated at Redland Hill Hou

Born in a log cabin at Almond, Portage County, 125 miles from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, on 21 August 1853, the son of the Rev S C Wellcome and Mary Curtis, his wife; his father was a missionary working amongst the Indian tribes. The son attended the schools on the frontier, including one which was

Born at Natchez, Mississippi, on 20 June 1863 during the Civil War, the second son of the Rev Ebenezer Dickey Finney, pastor of the Greenwood Presbyterian Church, and Annie Louise Parker, his wife, who died when her child was five months old. The Finneys were of Ulster stock settled in Pennsylvania