Charles Harold Crawshaw was born at Ashton-under-Lyne on 25 May, 1887. His father was a medical practitioner. He was educated at Oundle and Christ's College, Cambridge, and did his clinical training at Manchester and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He graduated BA Cambridge 1909; MRCS LRCP 1912; MB ChB M

John Hawkes Pendered was born on 7 September 1888 at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Wellingborough School and Caius College, Cambridge where he gained first class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1909. He then proceeded to the London Hospital where he did well in all hi

Born at Campana, Buenos Aires, Argentina on 27 August 1888, the son of Dr Michael John Petty, who practised there, he was educated at Prior Park School, Bath and Downing College, Cambridge where he took second class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1909. He worked at King's College, L

Born 1 June 1886, the only son of James Cossar Ewart (1851-1933), MD, FRS, for forty-five years (1882-1927) Regius Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University, and his second wife Edith Sophia, daughter of George Turner, MRCS, of Sherborne, and sister of Sir George R Turner and Edward B Tur

Born 21 May 1888 the fourth son of Louis Rivett, cotton-spinner, of Stockport, High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, and his wife, née Smith. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, in 1909. He received his cl

Born on 1 March 1888, the son of W G Warwick, of Hatfield, Yorkshire, he was educated at Doncaster Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was a sizar in I906. He won his "blue" in the university athletic team in 1907, and was placed as a junior optime in part I of the Mathematical

Geoffrey Langdon Keynes was born at Harvey Rd, Cambridge, on 25 March 1887, the third child and second son of Dr John Neville Keynes, ScD, the registrar of Cambridge University, and of Florence Ada Keynes, a daughter of Dr John Brown, pastor of the Bunyan (Congregational) Meeting in Bedford. Geoffre