He was educated at University College Hospital and qualified during the first world war. He served as a temporary Captain in the RAMC and won the MC. After the war he held appointments at University College Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and then went into practice

Second son of John James Street Driberg and Amy Mary Irving Bell, his wife, of Uckfield Lodge, Crowborough, he qualified from the London Hospital where he was surgical registrar and first assistant in the surgical unit and became an assistant surgeon. He served in the RAMC during the war of 1914-18,

Educated at the Universities of Wales and Glasgow and at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, he qualified just as war broke out in 1914. He joined the RAMC and won the Military Cross and bar on active service. He rose to the rank of Major and served as a surgical specialist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netl

Aubrey Radford was born at Colenso, Natal, South Africa, on 29 December 1889. He was educated at Oakfield Priory, Verulam and Maritzburg College, South Africa and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated MB ChB in 1913. After being house surgeon to Struthers at the Royal Infirmary he did post-gra

The son of H A Sneath, of Thurlby Bourne, Lincolnshire; went to Thurlby Elementary School and Grantham Technical Institute, and entered the University of Manchester in 1905, being the holder of two scholarships. He won most of the distinctions open to medical students, including the Turner Medical S

Born in 1885, he was educated at Epsom College, Exeter College, Oxford and the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1911 and was appointed house surgeon to Percy Furnivall and Frank Kidd, which probably stimulated his special interest in urology. After this he became house physician, resident acco

Herbert Henry Sampson was born in Sutton Coldfield on 5 October 1886. After education at King Edward VI School, Birmingham, he entered the University where he was reputed to have won all the prizes, scholarships and distinctions and was also victor ludorum. On graduating in 1909 he became a houseman

Francis Gordon Bell was born at Marlborough, New Zealand, in 1887, and was educated at Marlborough High School, where he became captain of rugby and vice-captain of the cricket team. He came to Britain in 1905 and entered Edinburgh University, where he was awarded the Vans Dunlop Scholarship in anat

Henzell Howard Dummere came from a family of doctors, his father, Howard Howse Dummere MRCS, four uncles and his brother were all medical men, as was his father-in-law. One of his uncles, Neville Howse, had a distinguished career: gaining his FRCS, he emigrated to Australia at the age of twenty-eigh

Born 6 June 1884, eldest son of Robert Davies Evans, MRCP Ed, of Blaenau Festiniog, once High Sheriff of Merionethshire, and his wife, who was the eldest daughter of the Rev Thomas Jones and a sister of Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, FRCS. He was educated at University College, Cardiff, qualified in 19