Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

Educated at Edinburgh and St George's Hospital. He was for thirteen years Surgeon to the Rotherham Dispensary and then Physician to Rotherham Hospital, which he was instrumental in founding in 1872, and where he held office till his death, which took place at his residence, Moorgate, Rotherham, on O

Born at Landawke, Laugharne, Carmarthen, the son of William Henry Sheild, of Gilfach, Pembrokeshire. He received a private education, and obtained his professional training at St. George's Hospital, where he highly distinguished himself, winning the Brackenbury Prize in Surgery, the William Brown (£

Herbert Harris was born in Bristol and was educated at Clifton College. In the first world war he was commissioned in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and served in the Dardanelles where he was awarded the Military Cross. After the war he studied medicine at Cambridge University and at St Bartho

Born at Langford, Co Tyrone, in 1866, the third son of the Rev Canon Stack, and was educated at Haileybury School, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and then at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was Brackenbury Medical Scholar. He was known as a hard-working student, with a mechanical bent, and good

James Hartley was born on 2 July 1889 and received his medical education in Edinburgh and Guy's Hospital. He graduated with first class honours in 1913 and as a student gained a number of distinctions including the Ettles and Buchanan Scholarships and the Annadale Gold Medal in Clinical Surgery. He

Born 28 November 1862, the son of a farmer at Watermael, Beitsfort, Brussels, and his wife Elizabeth Labarre. He was educated at the University of Brussels, where he took the degree of doctor of natural science in 1885. In 1887 he won the Seutin prize of the Royal Society of Medical and Natural Scie

Born 9 January 1881 at Wavertree, Liverpool, youngest child of Howard Percy Devereux, a Customs and Excise officer, and Martha Slatter, his wife. He was educated at Grove Academy, Edinburgh, at St Oswald's College, Tyneside, and at University College, Dundee, and received his medical training at

Born at Bombay 17 September 1912, son of Jamshedji Dhondy, cashier in Mulla and Mulla, solicitors to the Central Government of India, and Meherbai Shroff, his wife. They were members of the Zoroastrian Parsee community at Dadar, Bombay. He was educated at the Bharda New High School, St Xavier's Coll

Born on 16 March 1869 at Stoneycroft, Green Lane, Liverpool, the fourth child and second son of John Edward Dickinson, owner of the Liver Block Works, Peter's Lane, Liverpool, and Elizabeth Humphreys, his wife. He was educated at the Merchant Taylor's School, Great Crosby, Liverpool and at Liverpool

Born on November 1st, 1812, at Gosport, where his father was a medical practitioner. He was privately educated at Watford, whither his family moved. He entered as a student at University College Hospital in 1829, and after qualifying was for five years (1837-1842) House Surgeon at the Chichester Inf

Born in Gateshead on 23 January 1915 the eldest son of Thomas John Frederick Herbert, an engineer and his wife Edith, nee Ironsides, he was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the Medical School, Durham University, graduating MB, BS, in 1939. During his student days he was

Thomas Twistington Higgins was born on 19 November 1887 in Bolton, Lancashire, his father having been Vicar of Congleton. He went to school at Pocklington in East Yorkshire, and then on an entrance scholarship to Manchester University where he graduated MB, ChB in 1909 with distinctions in medicine,