John Barton Booth was a consultant ENT surgeon at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals. He was born on 19 November 1937, the son of Percy Leonard Booth and Mildred Amy née Wilson. He was educated at Canford School and at King's College, London, where he became an Associate (a diploma awar

Gerald Joseph Siegler, or ‘Jo’ as he known to colleagues, was an ENT consultant in Liverpool. He was born in London on 3 January 1921, and studied medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He held junior posts in Huddersfield, Lancaster, Nuneaton and Birkenhead, before completing his National Service w

Born at Brisbane, Australia on 6 September 1888, the third child and Second son of John Graham Brown, general manager of the Queensland Government Railways, and Amelia Morris, his wife. The family had come go Australia from Ulster. He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School, where he distinguished h

Born on 23 March 1873, the second son of Charles Percy West of Ambleside, a cotton broker, and Catherine Camidge, his wife. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby, and at Balliol College, Oxford, which he entered with a classical scholarship in 1891. He took a first class in classical m

Born at Barton-upon-Irwell, 19 June 1867, the son of George Hibbert Westmacott, wholesale chemist, and Rosena Berry, his wife. He was educated at the Grammar School, at the University, and at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester. As soon as he had qualified he went to Burma in the capacity of surgeon to

Born at Woolwich on 23 August 1876, only son of George Whale, solicitor, and Matilda Whale, his wife. He was educated at Bradfield, at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he played lawn-tennis for the university club "The Grasshoppers", and at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he served as house physician

Born in Edinburgh on 13 June 1854, the eldest child of James Dundas-Grant, advocate, and Louise Elizabeth Chapuy, his wife. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, at Dunkirk College in France, and at Edinburgh University, and took postgraduate courses in London, at Bart's, the London, the Middlesex,

Percy Winston, the second child and only son of Joseph Winston, a furrier, was born in London on 5 February 1922. He was educated at the Grocers' Company Grammar School and then went to the London Hospital Medical College. He qualified in 1945 and took several resident appointments before entering t

Born in London 15 August 1862, the second child and eldest son of Harry Kelson, shipbuilder, and Emily Cumming his wife. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk. He then proceeded to the London Hospital, where he was Lethaby scholar and filled the offices of house physician, clinical surg

'Zammy' or 'Zam' as he was known to colleagues and friends was born in Colombia, South America, on 13 January 1887 and came to school in England, to Tonbridge and to Cambridge University. His subsequent medical education was at Guy's Hospital, London, where he qualified in 1912. To his disgust when

Born at Shepton Mallet, Somerset, on 10 December 1866, the fourth child and second son of Henry William Tilley, who farmed his own land, and Emily Steeds Ford, his wife. He was educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and University College Hospital Medical School, where he obtained an entrance exhibit

Born 26 August 1867 at Repps, Norfolk, the elder son and second child, a sister having died in infancy, of Henry Lack, a gentleman-farmer, and Emily Martha Case, his wife. H L Lack's uncle Thomas Lambert Lack, MRCS 1869, was for many years a well-known practitioner at Hingham near Attleboro' in Norf