Dennis Bonham was head of the postgraduate school of obstetrics and gynaecology at the National Women’s Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. He was born in London on 23 September 1924, the son of Alfred John Bonham, a chemist, and Dorothy Alice Bonham, a pharmacist. He was educated at King Edward VI Sch

Barton Gilbert was a consultant in gynaecology and obstetrics. He was born in Wembley, London, on 28 October 1908. His father, Ernest Jesse Gilbert, was an accountant. His mother, Amy Louise (whose maiden name was also Gilbert), was the daughter of a leather-merchant. His family was descended from W

Pamela Mary Spencer née Bacon was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Whittington Hospital, London. She was born in London, in Dulwich, the daughter of Leonard Guy Bacon, a civil servant who had served as a bomber pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, and Edith M

Roger de Vere was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Westminster Hospital, London. He was born on 23 May 1921 in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, the son of Gaston de Vere, an Oxford extramural studies tutor and translator of Vasari's *Lives* of Renaissance artists, and Margaretta Josephine née Ham

John Carron Brown, known to his colleagues as ‘JCB’, was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Norwich. He was born in Sutton, Surrey, on 29 June 1925, the older son of Cecil Carron Brown, a general practitioner, and Jessamy Harper, a solicitor. Educated first at Homefield Preparatory Schoo

Nur Ahmad Khan Seyal was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology and a former principal of King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan. He was born on 16 July 1920 and received his early education in his home town of Jhang (Punjab). In 1936 he went to study medicine at Glancy Medical College, Amri

Charles Greenidge was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, on 28 December 1929, the third child and only son of Charles Woseley Greenidge, a jeweller, and Pauline Mary née O'Brien. He was educated at Wesley Hall Boys School, Combermere, and Harrison College, and studied medicine at the University College o

Gertrude Mary Beatrice Morgan was born in Edinburgh in November 1901 and was educated at Edinburgh Ladies' College and Newnham, College, Cambridge. After graduating in the Natural Science Tripos in 1923 she went to St Mary's Hospital, London, where she qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and graduat

Born on 25 March 1869 at Stoke Newington Green, North London, eldest of the three children of George Jesse Barnabas Stevens MRCS 1866 and his wife Charlotte Honey, he was educated at St Paul's School and Guy's Hospital where he served as house surgeon and resident obstetric officer, after qualifying

Born in 1884 at Boston, Lincolnshire son of William Gilliatt, he received his medical training at the Middlesex hospital, where he was an outstanding student. He won the Hetley clinical scholarship, the junior Broderip scholarship, the Leopold Hudson scholarship and the Lyell gold medal and scholars

Born at East Hoathly, Sussex on 18 September 1884, where his father and grandfather had practised, he was educated at Eastbourne College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. There he took second class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1905, and following the family tradition did

Aubrey Goodwin was born on 4 September 1889, son of Alfred Goodwin, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and was educated at University College and Hospital, London, qualifying in 1913 and winning the Honours Medal. After holding resident appointments he joined the RAMC in 1914 serving at Salonika and