Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

Ian Urquhart Fraser was an anatomy lecturer in London. He was born in Bangkok in 1926. During the Second World War he served in the Army and, in 1945, was based in Germany. Following his demobilisation, he returned to Britain to begin his studies as a medical student at King's College, London. Foll

Born at Dunse, in Scotland. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and went to America in 1830, where he studied medicine in the University Medical School, New York. Here he took his degree, devoting his time to the study and teaching of anatomy, in which subject he obtained a considerable

Eldred Walls was professor of anatomy at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London, and a highly distinguished anatomist. He was born in Glasgow, the second son of J T Walls, but was orphaned at the age of 13. Financial pressures meant he had to leave Hillhead High School at 15 and mat

Ronald Green was born on 1 August 1895, the son of Frank Green and Christiana Swanson. He was educated first at University College and then at University College Hospital, qualifying in 1918. He at once showed an interest in anatomy and became first demonstrator in anatomy at University College and

Frank Roland Wilde was a senior anatomist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He studied medicine at Manchester University Medical School, qualifying in 1941. Prior to his appointment at Barts, he was a lecturer in anatomy at the Victoria University of Manchester, a surgical registrar at Ancoat

Born in Ireland in 1870, he was educated at Queen's College, Belfast and the University of Edinburgh. After a period on the staff of the Department of Anatomy at Newcastle, he became a senior demonstrator in the Department of Anatomy at Birmingham University. In 1915 he was appointed head of the

Born on February 6th, 1804, the sixth son of Charles Shaw, Clerk of the County of Ayr, and Barbara Wright, his wife, daughter of a Collector of Customs at Greenock. John Shaw (1792-1827), Lecturer on Anatomy at the Great Windmill Street School of Medicine, who helped Sir Charles Bell in making his d

Born in 1879 the son of Dr George Robert Gowland, LRCP, LRCS, LM, Edinburgh 1874. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Owens College and Manchester Medical School, where he won a gold medal in anatomy, and qualified through London University in 1903 with first-class honours in obstetrics an

Born 9 June 1865, third and youngest son of Thomas H Gladstone, DPh and his wife Matilda, daughter of Joshua Field, FRS, a pioneer of large marine steam engines and one of the founders of the Institution of Civil Engineers. His father died when he was six. He was educated at Clapham Grammar School,

Born at Sheffield, 15 January 1885, the eldest son and first child of the Rev James Todd, Wesleyan minister, and Katherine Wingate, his wife. He was educated privately and afterwards went to school at Nottingham. He then entered the Victoria University, Manchester, where he won the University schola

Born about 1880 he was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1903, taking also the triple qualification of the Scottish Royal medical corporations. He went to South Africa as civil surgeon to the military hospital at Middelburg (1903-04) and from 1905 to 1908 was a district

Professor Peter Williams was an outstanding anatomist who was known and respected world-wide for the editing and revision of *Gray's Anatomy*. He was born on 11 November 1926 at Caerleon in Gwent, the elder son of Jack Williams, a Welsh education and child-welfare officer. His father, who held st