Born on 22 June 1888, son of Dr Arthur John Jefferson of Rochdale and younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University, where he shared the Dumville surgical prize with J S B Stopford. Qualifying in 1911 with the conjoint diploma and t

Born in 1888 the son of Charles Jackson LRCP Ed of King's Lynn, he was educated at Haileybury and at St Mary's Hospital. After qualification he held house appointments at St Mary's Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton. In the war of 1914-18 he served in France with the RAMC

Born on 23 January 1886 at 10 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square W1, the second son of Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, KCVO, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, and his second wife, a daughter of Mr Justice Lush and grand-daughter of Lord Justice Sir Robert Lush (1807-81), of whom there is an account in th

Born 26 September 1887 at Allepy, Travancore, South India, the third child and only son, in a family of four, of the Rev Clement Alfred Neve, clerk in Holy Orders, and his wife, a sister of Sir Frederick Treves, FRCS. He was educated at St Michael's School, Limpsfield, and at Repton. He entered Rept

Born in Yorkshire on 28 February 1886, he grew up at Whitby. He gained the first science scholarship to the Medical College of the London Hospital, won many prizes there, and served as demonstrator of physiology to Sir Leonard Hill. He held resident appointments at the London Hospital, and was house

Born about 1888, C V Anderson qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1911 from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, where he was Tite Scholar in 1907, won the Treasurer's Gold Medal in 1911, was elected Beaney Scholar in 1912, and held house appointments. He took the Fellowship in 1913 and migrat

Born on 26 January 1889 son of Edward Ingram Taylor and Margaret Boole, he was educated at University College School, University College and University College Hospital, where he qualified in November 1911 with the Conjoint Diploma, following this up with the qualifying degrees of London University

Born on 10 March 1886, the son of Alfred Jasper Anderson MRCS, Medical Officer of Health for Blackpool, he was educated at Epsom College and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified in 1911, was commissioned in the Indian Medical Service in January 1912, and saw active service throughout the first wo

Dudley Denham Pinnock was born in Australia in 1885 and received his medical education at the University of Melbourne where he graduated MB BS in 1908. After junior appointments in Australia he came to London for surgical training and took the Conjoint Diploma in 1911 and the FRCS in 1913. During th

John Morley was the last of a line of distinguished part-time Professors of Surgery in Manchester. Born on 10 October 1885, the son of the Reverend J S Morley, MA, schoolmaster and clergyman, he was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and Manchester University, where he graduated MB ChB with firs

Robert Anstruther Ramsay was born in Montreal on 18 February 1887, his forebears having emigrated to Canada from Aberdeenshire in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He went to school in Canada, the USA and Switzerland and then to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where in 1908 he obtain

Stanley Ritson began his medical training at King's College, London, where he took his BSc with honours in physiology in 1909 and was senior demonstrator in anatomy. His clinical years were spent at St Thomas's Hospital, from which he took the Conjoint qualification in 1911. He was academically gift