Born in December, 1867, in the island of Jamaica. He was of good Scottish family, the eldest son of Sir David Palmer Ross, CMG, Surgeon General of British Guiana. When a lad of 13, in weak health, he entered Dover College, but left it robust and well grounded in knowledge. He received his profession

There were four Teales, surgeons, connected with Leeds - Thomas Pridgin Teale, senr, his father, and his two sons, Thomas Pridgin Teale, junr (qv), and John William Teale (qv). Thomas Pridgin Teale, senr, was born on January 1st, 1801, in Leeds, where his father had a large practice, and was educat

James Keith Ross was a leading cardiac surgeon, and one of the team that performed the first cardiac transplant in Britain. He was born in London on 9 May 1927. His father, Sir James Paterson Ross, was later to become professor of surgery at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Surgeon to the Royal Household

Born at Edinburgh on Nov 1st, 1842, the son of Peter S Banks, Writer to the Signet. He received his early education at Edinburgh Academy and passed from there to the University of Edinburgh. Graduated MD with honours, and won the Gold Medal for his thesis on the Wolffian bodies in 1864. Acted for a

Born at Blythe Court, Newnham-on-Severn, Gloucestershire on 30 April 1855, the sixth child and fifth son of William Barling, MRCVS, veterinary surgeon and farmer, by his wife Eliza Sharpe. He was educated privately until he matriculated at the University of London in 1875 from Queen's College, Birmi

Capps was born in the Naval Hospital, Gibralter, on 17 May 1898, the only son of Fleet-Surgeon Frederick A Capps, who lost his life in action at the Battle of Jutland (1916). With this family background he was from an early age destined for a career in the Royal Navy, and accordingly entered the Roy

He was born at Hampstead on 14 February 1875, son of John Howard Mummery FRCS (1847-1926) and Mary Lily, his first wife, daughter of W Lockhart of Shanghai. John Howard Mummery (for a memoir of whom see *Plarr's Lives* 2, 81 and *British dental Journal* 1926, 47, 1023-7) was a prominent dental surge

Mary Frances Lucas was born on 15 August 1885, in Gravesend, the daughter of George John Lucas, who was a dental surgeon. She attended Rochester Grammar School for Girls and Eversley School, Folkestone. She entered the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women in the 1904/5 sessio

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

Herbert John Seddon was born on 13 July 1903 in Derby, the elder son of John Seddon, who worked in the Union Cold Storage Company, and of Ellen (née Thornton). He spent his childhood in Manchester and was educated at the William Hulme Grammar School from whence he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital M

Joseph Patrick Irwin Reidy (Pete) was born in London on 30 October 1907, the second son of four brothers and three daughters: his father Jerome Reidy MD was a general practitioner, son of a doctor, who practised in the Commercial Road and who had married an Irish nurse, Miss F W Dawson. His educatio

Henry Matthew John Windsor, known as ‘Harry’, the eldest of five children of Dr Henry Joseph Windsor, a medical practitioner, and of Norah Agnes Matthew Windsor née Carroll, was born on 27 October 1914 in Cork, Ireland. His father had left for Australia before his birth and arrived there on 6 August