Born in Canada on 23 July 1871, son of William Cox Lelean, he was educated at Hart House and St Mary's Hospital, London. During the South African War he was commissioned in the Army Medical Service and gained the Queen's medal with four clasps. In 1903 he served on the Anglo-French Boundary Commissi

Born at Dartmouth on 6 July 1871 fifth child and second son of Hunter Gaskell JPO and his wife née Stempkowska, he was educated at Tavistock and at University College Hospital, and was commissioned in the Royal Naval Medical Service in 1893 and posted to the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham. He was in

Born at Midhurst, Lower Road, Richmond, Surrey on 27 May 1858, the elder child and only son of Samuel Dougan Bird and his wife, *née* Tate. His father had been a surgeon on the staff of HH Omar Pasha and was the holder of the Crimean medal with clasp and the Turkish war medal. He emigrated to Melbou

Born at Malmesbury, Wiltshire on 13 July 1867 the second son of Colonel J R Luce DL, JP and Mary Visger his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1889, and graduated in medicine in 1893. He

Born 1 September 1867 at Staines, the eldest child of Edward Low, architect, and his wife, née Birch. He was educated at Cranleigh School and at St Mary's Hospital. He took first-class honours in the London BS examination and, though he took the Fellowship in the same year and intended to practise s

Born at Dalhousie, New Brunswick on 24 July 1852 the son of Charles Symonds, a barrister, who died in California in 1860. He came of pioneer stock, for his ancestor William Symonds left London in 1653 in *The Safety* and settled in Woburn, Massachusetts. The move to New Brunswick was made by James S

Born in Manchester on April 7th, 1861, the son of John Thorburn, Professor of Obstetric Medicine at Owens College, Manchester, and Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was educated at Owens College, and received his professional training at the Infirmary and in London, where his passage t

Born 7 April 1879, the fifth child and fourth son of Robert Kelly, a leading iron merchant of Liverpool, and his wife, *née* Brazier. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute and University College, then a constituent of the Victoria University. He was one of the first medical graduates of the Uni

Sir Humphry Rolleston was a physician and a College of Physicians man. He was elected LRCP before the establishment of the Conjoint Board and was never an MRCS. But he was a constant friend of the College of Surgeons, a life-long and almost daily reader in the Library, to which he gave many books, a

Arthur William Mayo Robson was born on 17 April 1853 at Filey in Yorkshire, where his father John Bonnington Robson was a chemist; he assumed the double surname in middle age. He was educated at Wesley College, Sheffield, and passed from there to the Leeds School of Medicine, where from 1870 he had

Born at Clapton, Middlesex, on 30 August 1856, the second child and eldest son of the four boys and four girls born to Charles Alfred Ballance (d 1873), of Taunton, where he had been in business as a government contractor for timber, and his wife Caroline Hendebrouck Pollard. Sir Hamilton Ashley Bal

Born at 128 Church Street, Kensington, on April 14th, 1857. His grandfather was William Horsley, musician; his father, John Callcott Horsley (1817-1903), RA, and Treasurer 1882-1897, author of *Recollections of a RA*, an opponent of the Pre-Raphaelites, of the Paris Salon, and of the nude model of h