Born at Tidcombe Manor, Wilts, on 31 March 1861, the third of five sons of John Tanner, yeoman, of Poulton, Marlborough, and Marian Canning, his wife. He was educated at Clifton College from May 1873 to July 1878, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and at the Durham School of Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyn

Born 23 January 1866 at Wincanton, Somerset, the second son of Samuel Deanesly, wine merchant, and his wife, *née* Dowding. He was educated at King's School, Bruton, Somerset, and at University College Hospital, where he was vice-president of the medical society and served as house surgeon, house ph

Born 14 September 1862, the fourth child and third son of D Brown, of Harrow Park, and his wife Anna Maria Charlotte Wright. He was educated at Harrow and at University College Hospital, where he was Filliter exhibitioner and Atchison scholar. He was a contemporary and life-long friend of John Rose

Born in London on 25 November 1862, the third child and second son of James Hudson Taylor (1832-1900), MRCS, and his wife, *née* Dyer. J H Taylor founded and for long directed the China Inland Mission, with which his son Frederick was later associated for fifty-seven years; his life was written by t

Born at Redruth, the son of John Permewan and Jane Permewan née Thomas. Both his father and his older brother Arthur Edward Permewan were medical practitioners. He studied at University College Hospital, and was then Resident Surgeon to the Miners’ Hospital, Redruth. In 1887 he went to Liverpoo