Isabella Forshall was born and spent her childhood in affluent surroundings in Sussex. Details of her family are not recorded but she was educated privately at home where her mother, who read classics at Girton College, Cambridge in the 1890s, had a powerful influence, imbuing her with a keen apprec

Conrad Latto was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. He was born on 3 March 1915, the son of David and Christina Latto. His father was the town clerk of Dundee, his mother a frugal Scot who scrupulously saved towards the education of their three sons. Conrad, Gordon and Do

Gordon Bohn was a consultant general surgeon at the Royal Berkshire and Battle hospitals, Reading. He was born in Forest Gate, London, on 17 February 1913, the son of Leonard Gayton Bohn, a ship-owner, and Sophia Bohn (née Cattermole). From the County High School, Ilford, he went to the medical scho

The Reverend Hugh Marshall Williams was an orthopaedic surgeon in Huddersfield and later a priest. Born in July 1938 he studied medicine at London University and Charing Cross Hospital. He qualified MB, BS in 1962 and passed the conjoint examination that same year. After house jobs at the Chester Ro

Robert Marshall Laird was born on 4 February 1919. He studied medicine at Queen’s University Belfast, qualifying MB, BCh, BAO in 1942 and working there as a demonstrator in physiology. He served as a flight lieutenant in the RAFVR. After house jobs at Preston Royal Infirmary, he passed the fellowshi

Robert Marshall was a consultant surgeon at Prince Henry’s Hospital, Melbourne. He was born on 3 May 1926 in Nihill, Victoria, Australia, the son of Charles Jeremiah Marshall and Catherine May Marshall née Bofill. His four siblings all had careers in medicine and allied professions: Betty became a g

As professor of surgery at the University of Sheffield, Richard Wood was an academic surgeon who was recognised internationally in the fields of transplantation and vascular surgery. He was a founding fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1998), a founding member of the British Transplantation

Lena McEwan was the first woman to specialize in plastic surgery in Australia, and did so with much distinction. She was born on 11 August 1927 in South Australia. Her parents were recent immigrants from Glasgow, and when Lena and her mother conversed in demotic Glaswegian, they became totally incom

Born at Ely in Cambridgeshire on Sept. 11th, 1818, the second son of William Marshall, solicitor, an excellent naturalist. John Marshall's elder brother, William (d. 1890), sometime Coroner for Ely, was an enthusiastic botanist, who first elucidated the life-history of the American pond-weed, *Anach

Entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on March 31st, 1805; he was promoted Surgeon on March 22nd, 1818, Superintending Surgeon on July 24th, 1833 and on March 1st, 1843, was made a member of the Medical Board and Inspector-General of Hospitals. He was promoted to Surgeon General on July 23rd,

Son of Abraham Horsfall, of Leeds. He matriculated at University College, Oxford, in October, 1859, and took a pass degree. He was afterwards a student and House Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, in connection with which he published "Tetanus - a Case at St Bartholomew's" in the *Lancet* (1867,

Born in Aberdeen on March 8th, 1809; he studied at Aberdeen, also in London at the School in Great Windmill Street, and at Joshua Brookes's in Blenheim Street. He became one of the foremost London practitioners, practising first in Greek Street, Soho, then at 3 Bedford Square, London, WC. In conjunc