Born at Middlesbrough, he won a scholarship at Pembroke College, Cambridge, took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1911, and won the Shuter scholarship at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified just after war broke out in 1914, and served for four years as a surgeon in the

Born 25 October 1889, the son of H A Costobadie, Lionel Palliser Costobadie was educated at his father's old school, Haileybury College, Hertford, from 1905 to 1908. He went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took his BA with 1st class honours in the Natural Science Tripos. He then e

Martin Wright Kidman Bird was born at 2 Warkworth Street, Cambridge on 30 September 1889, the second child and eldest son of William Kidman Bird, a merchant, and Maria Rebecca Martin, his wife. He was educated at the Perse School, Cambridge and at Tettanhall College. He graduated in arts from Emmanu

Born on 19 June 1890 son of Robert Wheddon Gimblett he was educated at Clifton College and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Science Tripos, part 1, 1911. At St Thomas's Hospital he was house surgeon and senior ophthalmic surgeon at the R N Hospitals at Chat

Vernon Pennell was born in Lincoln on 30 September 1889, the eldest son of Charles Waldegrave Pennell, a seed merchant, and Jessie Folkes. After education at Harrow School, with an exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1908 and a scholarship in the following year, he secured a first class in