The eldest son of George Soltau, a nonconformist minister of Plymouth, and of his wife Grace Elizabeth Tapson, he was born at Myddleton Square, London, WC, on 21 March 1876. His father, who had been governor of Dr Barnado's Home in London, took charge of a mission church in Tasmania, and his son was

Born at Denmark Hill, London, SE on 28 October 1860, younger son and youngest of the four children of George Leonard Turney, needle and pin manufacturer, and Anna Neeve, his second wife. He was educated at Dulwich College and at Trinity College, Oxford. While at Oxford he had a severe attack of scar

Born on 13 August 1857 at 4 Stockwell Park Road, Brixton, the only child of Frederick Walters and his wife, *née* Rufenacht. His father and grandfather were silk-weavers, members of the Weavers Company and freemen of the City of London. His father in 1870 bought a surgical instrument business, in wh

Born on 5 May 1860, eldest son of Andrew Wynter, MD St Andrews 1853, and Mary Bramhall, his wife. His father was in general practice at Chiswick and Brompton; from 1855 to 1861 he was editor of the *British Medical Journal*; he died on 12 May 1876, aged 56. Walter Wynter's brother Andrew, MRCS 1888,

He was born on 1 January 1903 son of Harry Evans, conductor of the celebrated choir at Dowlais and Merthyr Tydfil. His grandfather was a pharmacist at Dowlais and inspired him to take up the study of medicine. His parents moved to Liverpool and he was educated at Liverpool College, City of London Sc

Henry Cohen was born in Birkenhead on February 21, 1900, the son of a draper and clothier, and was educated at the church school of St John when the fees were 2d a week. One of his school masters remembered him as a brilliant boy 'who showed signs of genius when most boys are only beginning to show

The fifth son and sixth child of George Parkin of Gateshead, jeweller, and Jane Owens, his wife, he was born in Wreckenton, Co Durham on 13 May 1879. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and at the Durham University College of Medicine. He graduated with first-class hono

Born at Bury in Lancashire on 26 July 1863 and educated at Shrewsbury School, which he entered in Michaelmas Term 1877 and left in 1881. He then proceeded to University College Hospital, London, where he filled the posts of house surgeon and obstetric assistant. He obtained the number of marks quali

Received his early professional education under William Travis, of Scarborough, remaining with him till he came of age. He afterwards attended the Medical Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and spent a short period in those of Paris. He began to practise in York at the age of 25, and was so

Practised as a physician at Henllan Place, Denbigh, was Physician to the North Wales Asylum for the Insane and to the Rhyl Convalescent Institute, also Surgeon to the Denbighshire Infirmary and General Dispensary. In 1851 he was President of the North Wales Branch of the Provincial Medical and Surgi

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and after qualifying was for forty years Resident Medical Officer to the Small-pox and Vaccination Hospital, Holloway, London, N, and was a Principal Vaccinator of the National Vaccine Establishment. From the time of the institution of educational vaccinating st

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was apprenticed to Thomas Wheeler, Apothecary to the Hospital, and was House Surgeon to Abernethy, whose favourite pupil he became and with whom his friendship endured to the great surgeon's death. After qualifying Norton settled in London and soon gain