John Howkins was a gynaecological surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He was born in Hartlepool, County Durham, on 17 December 1907, the son of John Drysdale Howkins, a civil engineer, and Helen Louise née Greenwood, the daughter of a bank manager. He was educated at Cargilfield Preparator

Educated at the Pine Street Royal School of Medicine in Manchester, which was also known as Mr Turner’s School, and gained the Turner Scholarship in three successive years – 1868-1869, 1869-1870, and 1870-1871. He settled in the Ardwick District of Manchester, where he was in general practice until

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

Harold Bickford Hattam, known as 'Hal', was a gynaecologist and a landscape artist and art collector. He was born in Edinburgh on 14 January 1913, the son of Bickford Hattam. The family moved to Australia in 1920 when Hattam was seven. He joined the Australian Army in January 1941 and served in the

Went to Bury St Edmunds Grammar School, then to Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, to which the fame of Sir Astley Cooper attracted him as it did others. He settled in practice at Framlingham, Suffolk, and there gained for himself the honour of being amongst the first in England to remove an ovarian c

Born in Exeter on June 19th, 1885, the son of Richard Ley, of Exmouth. He was educated at Malvern and at the London Hospital, where he won the Obstetric Scholarship and Prize in 1907 and was Pathological Assistant. In 1910 he became House Surgeon at the Gloucester Royal Infirmary, proceeding thence

The second son of Thomas Savage (qv). He was born in Birmingham in December, 1869, and after being educated at Birmingham School, matriculated from Christ Church at the University of Oxford on October 14th, 1884, graduated BA in 1890 and acted for a short time as Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Unive

Born on September 27th 1840, at Castle Street, Holborn. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, where his father was master of the modern side. He entered the school early in 1854, and left in 1855 to be apprenticed to Josiah Pritchard, a surgeon in Loughborough. He then served as an unquali

Alec Graeme ‘Chick’ Bond was a gynaecologist in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Geelong, Victoria, on 18 September 1926, the son of Alec William Bond, a civil engineer, and May née Webb, the daughter of a grazier. He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, and then went on to Melbourne Unive

Elliot Philipp was an eminent gynaecologist and obstetrician, author of numerous popular and technical medical works, and a committed religious and charitable Jew. He was born on 20 July 1915 to Oscar Isaac and Clarisse Philipp (née Weil) in Stoke Newington, London. He was educated at Warwick House

Peter Diggory was a consultant gynaecologist at Kingston and the Royal Marsden, who, as medical adviser to the Liberal MP David Steel, played a significant role in the passing of the Abortion Act in 1967. He was born in Titley, Herefordshire, the fourth child of Edwin Ernest Diggory, a stationmaster

The son of Edward Lea, of Sandbach, Cheshire, and a nephew through his mother of Dr F W Warrington, of Congleton. He was educated at Parkhurst School, Buxton, and at Owens College. He afterwards held resident appointments at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, where he was House Surgeon, at the Hospital