Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia for eighteen years and a Commonwealth statesman of acknowledged world status, was born of humble origin on 20 December 1894 at Jeparit, Victoria. He was of Scottish-Cornish ancestry, his father being a general store keeper. He was educated at Grenville

John Bruce was born in Dalkeith on 6 March 1905. There is no record of his early education. He graduated with honours from the University of Edinburgh in 1928. His first resident appointments were at the Royal Infirmary and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, and he then worked as an

Arthur Capel Herbert Bell was born at Epsom, Surrey, on 18 September 1904. His father was John Herbert Bell, a solicitor who was the eldest son of Dr William Bell, general practitioner at Wallasey. The second son, and uncle of Arthur Bell, was William Blair Bell, first President of the College of Ob

Ivan Jose was born on 13 February 1893 in China where his father was an Anglican missionary. When he was ten years old the family moved to Adelaide, South Australia, where his father became first the Rector of Christ Church, North Adelaide, and later Dean of the Adelaide diocese. Ivan had two younge

Thomas Holmes Sellors, the only son of Dr Thomas Blanchard Sellors, a general practitioner and of Anne Oliver Sellors (née McSparron) was born on 7 April 1902, at Wandsworth. A few years later his father moved his practice to Southend-on-Sea and Tom, as he was always known, went to Alleyn Court Prep