Edward Leslie Martyn Lobb, known to his friends as John, was educated at Guy's Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1908 with the Conjoint Board Diploma and the MB BS of the University of London. He proceeded to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1910, and the MS in 1911. In the

Murugesan Muthu Kumarasamy entered the Presidency College, Madras with a view to a degree in arts, but changed his mind and became a student at the Madras Medical College. In his first year there he won the biology medal and in his third year the anatomy medal. After finishing at the College he deci

Campbell was born in 1882 and studied medicine at Glasgow University where he qualified. He then held several house appointments after which he worked for a time at the London Hospital while preparing for his Fellowship. In 1910 he returned to Glasgow and was appointed to the staff of the Western In

William Douglas was born at Bury in 1880, and received a classical education at Bury Grammar School which he valued all his life. He entered Manchester University with a classical scholarship, but was already determined to read medicine. In 1903 he graduated BSc in botany and zoology, and qualified

Harold Vellacott was born in 1883, the son of an Essex farmer. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1907 from the London Hospital Medical College and took the Fellowship in 1910. He settled at Devonport as a general practitioner surgeon and was appointed to the staff of the Royal Albert Hospita

Edward Martin was born at Weston-super-Mare on 21 September 1883 where his father and grandfather were general practitioners. He was educated at St Peter's Preparatory School, Weston, and then at Charterhouse before ill health necessitated a prolonged stay in Switzerland. In 1903 he returned to Engl

Richard Lionel Spittel was born on 9 December 1881 in Tangalle, a town on the south coast of Ceylon, where his father Dr F G Spittel was stationed at that time as Government Medical Officer. He entered the Ceylon Medical College at the turn of the century, and qualified LMS Ceylon in 1905. He entere