Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

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

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

Born at Chesterfield, the son of Peter Redfern, distinguished for scientific attainments; he was educated privately in classics, and then apprenticed for five years to Richard Collis Botham, who was Surgeon to the Chesterfield Union and Workhouse. Redfern and another apprentice, C E Black, who after

Born in London, 30 January 1870, second son of Joseph Frazer and his wife Frances E Mahony. He was educated at Dulwich and St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1891 at the age of 21. He intended to become a surgeon, held various hospital posts in London and the country, and took the Fellowship i

Born at Birmingham, the younger son of Edward Grainger, surgeon. His elder brother, Edward (1797-1824), was the well-known founder of the Webb Street School, one of the most flourishing of the private medical schools in London. Richard Grainger entered the Military Academy at Woolwich as a cadet,

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

At the time of his death Simpson was a Teacher of Vaccination by appointment of the Privy Council, and Surgeon of the Surrey Vaccination Establishment. He had previously been Surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary. He was throughout life, first Lecturer on, and then Professor of, Anatomy to t

Educated at Taunton and at the University of Edinburgh, and after graduating with brilliance was appointed an Extramural Lecturer on Anatomy at Minto House. Not only was he a first-rate teacher of anatomy, but he pursued anatomical research and published a number of important papers in the *Journal

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 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 8 September 1900 son of C Whillis he was educated at Carlisle Grammar School and Newcastle Medical School, where he graduated with first-class honours and was awarded the Philipson scholarship; he served as demonstrator and then lecturer in anatomy. Whillis was appoint

John Harris was a well-known anatomist who became professor at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine: he was appointed to the chair on the retirement of Ruth Bowden. It is possible that he had contemplated a career in obstetrics and gynaecology in his early years and was very much a clinical an

Henry Albert Harris was born on 13 September 1886 at Rhymey, Monmouthshire, where his father was manager of the Bessemer Steel Plant; when that works closed four years later the family moved to Merthyr Tydfil where his father died when Henry Albert was 8 years old. As he was the youngest of six chil