Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

Born 26 October 1882 at Ocker Hill, Tipton, Staffordshire, nine miles out of Birmingham, elder son of Michael J. Whitehouse, ironmaster, and his wife, nee Beckwith. He was educated at Malvern College and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he entered with the first science scholarship and in 1902 won the

Born on 22 September 1908 at 11 Barrington Road, Crouch End, N, the eldest of the five children of Frank Ernest Todd, civil servant and principal inspector of taxes, and Margaret Mary Shearman, his wife. He was educated at Prior Park School, Bath, and from there proceeded to Guy's Hospital, taking h

He was born at Birmingham in 1865 one of 3 sons of Thomas Furneaux Jordan FRCS. His grandfather had been a surgeon, his brother Bertram became a physician at Birmingham, and an uncle and his son were physicians there. He was educated at King Edward's School and at Queen's and Mason Colleges, where h

Born in 1888 the third son of Lt-Col A S Roberts and Jane, daughter of Brigade Surgeon Benjamin Lane and sister of Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, he was educated at Cheltenham College and Guy's Hospital where he was awarded an entrance scholarship in arts and the Treasurer's Gold Medal in clinical surg

Born on 15 December 1884 at Pentre, Glamorgan, son of Elias Henry Davies, an influential figure in the public service of South Wales, and Ann Jones, his wife, he was educated at Porth County School and University College, Cardiff, graduating with first-class honours in science in 1906, and was award

Born in 1901, son of R J Burt White, cotton goods buyer, of Crouch End, he was educated at Epsom College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Foster prize in anatomy and the Harvey prize in physiology. He was house surgeon to W McAdam Eccles and Girling Ball, and served as intern midwifer

Robert Zacharin was a senior gynaecologist at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 11 April 1925, the son of Saul Zacharin, a timber merchant, and Sarah Agnes Zacharin née Fyfe, a tailor, whose father was from Crathie in Scotland. Zacharin was educated at Wesley Col

Born 29 March 1872 at Scarborough, third child and eldest son of the Rev John Augustus Leicester, a priest of the Church of England who held no regular living, and his wife Charlotte Eliza Holdich. He was educated at Dulwich College and University College, London, where he took honours in physiology

Born in England about 1860, he received his medical training at University College Hospital, where he was Atkinson Morley surgical scholar. After qualifying in 1882 he was appointed to the staff of the Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington, and took the Fellowship in 1885. He emigrated to Australia i

Henry Harron Thomson was a consultant gynaecologist at Central Middlesex Hospital and Willesden General Hospital, London. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, London, qualifying MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1952. Prior to his consultant appointments he was a house surgeon at St Geo

Born on 6 November 1875 at Cardiff, sixth child of John Forsdike, master mariner, and Mary Ann Thomas, his wife. A brother, George Frederick Forsdike (d 1936), a solicitor and stockbroker, became Lord Mayor of Cardiff. H S Forsdike was educated at Llandovery College and at University College, London

Born on 23 July 1878 at Shere, Surrey, one of the two sons of George Fisher, MRCS 1867, who practised there, and Mary Ann Ramsden, his wife. He was educated at Epsom College, entered the London Hospital with the Epsom scholarship in 1896, and subsequently served as interne and externe resident accou