Born at Worcester on 12 October 1878, the third child and eldest son of Tom Bates, MRCS 1868, and Alice Mary Davis, his wife. Tom Bates senior died on 3 April 1916 (*Brit med J*. 1916, 1, 574; *Lancet*, 1916, 1, 837); his younger son Mark was also a Fellow. Tom Bates the younger was educated at Worc

Born at Ilminster, 6 August 1877, third son of Henry Batten, master tailor, and Ann Summers, his wife. He was educated at Ilminster Grammar School and Bristol University, and qualified as a pharmacist in 1894. While earning his living in this profession he attended St Mary's Hospital Medical School,

Born at Weymouth on 4 March 1878, eldest of the three sons of Walter Benjamin Cole, chemist, and his wife Mary Parmiter, of Dorchester. He was educated at Weymouth College, and as a dental student at Guy's Hospital. After qualifying as a dentist in 1899 he decided to become a surgeon. He took the Co

Son of Edward Daniels, assessor of water rates to the borough, now city, of Leicester, and Elizabeth Ann Woodcock, his wife, he was born at Leicester on 19 April 1872. His younger brother Davis Woodcock Daniels is noticed above. He was educated at Wyggeston School, Leicester, and at the London Hospi

Born 11 March 1881, second son and second of the eleven children of Robert Milne, MD, of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, and Mary Thompson, his wife. Dr Milne practised at Bow in East London, and was medical director of Dr Barnardo's Homes for orphaned children. One of his daughters became matron of St Ma

Born in Hampstead in 1878, the third son of Frederick Hoare Colt, a barrister and bencher of the Inner Temple, George Herbert Colt was educated at Tonbridge School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he became a scholar. He obtained a first-class in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1900, and c

Born on 30 November 1875 at Bingley, Yorks, fourth and youngest son of the Rev Albert Hudson, he was educated at Rugby, Trinity College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. After qualification he became house surgeon and then junior and senior ophthalmic house surgeon in succession and finally op

Born on 31 December 1880 son of Albert Kisch MRCS who was in general practice for many years in Sunderland Avenue, and grandson of Joseph Kisch MRCS, an obstetric surgeon of 2 Circus Place, Finsbury, he was educated at the City of London School and St Thomas's where he qualified in 1904. He was Musg

Born 14 December 1878, the second son and third child of Robert Harry Hughes, MB, who was in general practice at Plymouth, and his wife Laetitia Cavanagh Jervis. His elder brother Lawson Jervis Hughes, after training at Guy's Hospital, was killed in the South African war, when he was serving as a mo

Born 15 February 1877 the second child and only son of John Irving, MB, CM Glasgow, who practised at Huddersfield, and of Fanny Watkinson, his wife, also of Huddersfield. He was born at 22 New North Road, and was educated at Huddersfield College and at Sedbergh School. He then entered Owen's College

Born 15 June 1878 at Liverpool, the second child and second son of Sir Alexander Jeans, JP, then editor of the *Derby Reporter* and afterwards director and managing editor of the *Liverpool Daily Post and Echo* and Ellen Gallon, his wife. He was educated at Birkenhead School and matriculated from th

Born 13 November 1882, the eldest child of William Richardson Edmond, MRCS 1875, then practising at Chew Magna, Somerset, and his wife, *née* Square. Dr W R Edmond moved to Camberwell in 1893, and W S Edmond was educated there at Wilson's Grammar School. He took his medical training at St Bartholome