Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

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 in Edinburgh on 13 June 1854, the eldest child of James Dundas-Grant, advocate, and Louise Elizabeth Chapuy, his wife. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, at Dunkirk College in France, and at Edinburgh University, and took postgraduate courses in London, at Bart's, the London, the Middlesex,

Edward David Darelan Davis was born at St Mellons, Cardiff, on 11 August 1880. His father was an iron master and he started his clinical career in 1900 as a student in the wards of Charing Cross Hospital, having completed the first examinations in medicine and dentistry at University College, Cardif

Born 16 April 1868 at Merstham, Surrey, second child and second son of Edwin Peters and Damaris Kingsnorth, his wife. He was educated at Charterhouse and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in Part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1889, and second-class honours in Part 2,

Born in San Francisco on 1 February 1880, the eldest child of J Lewis Franklin, a business man, and his wife *née* Last; his father died while he was still a boy. He was educated at Lowell High School and the University of California. Coming to Europe he worked at Heidelberg University and at King's

Born at Burntisland, Fife on 5 September 1857 the fourth child of David Low, Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland, a schoolmaster, and Elizabeth, his wife. He was educated at Madras College, St Andrews, at Edinburgh University, and at the University of Freiburg. He acted for some years as

Raymond Thomas Finde, son of T J Hinde of Harrow, was educated at the Haberdashers' School and at Guy's Hospital, where he played in the Rugby XV. After qualifying in 1940 he held house appointments at Guy's and then joined the Indian Medical Service. While in India he transferred to the Royal India

Born on 25 January 1876, son of S L Horsford, of St Kitt's, West Indies, he was educated at Bedford Modern School and Edinburgh University, taking his MD with honours in 1902. A year later he took the English Fellowship after serving as a clinical assistant at the Throat Hospital in Golden Square. H

Born at Prestwich, son of J E Howarth and twin brother of (Sir) Edgar Goldie Howarth KBE, CB, he was educated at Shrewsbury, King's College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. After house appointments, when he was house surgeon to Sir George Makins and W H Battle, he spent considerable time in post

Educated at the University of Cairo and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he practised as an ear nose and throat surgeon in Cairo. He was distinguished in his specialty, and well-known to his European colleagues through his membership of the International Collegium Otolaryngologicum. He had intended to

Born on 25 June 1904 at Johannesburg, South Africa, second son of John James Passe, an engineer, and Eleanor Jane Price his wife, his parents moved to Australia while he was a child, and he was educated at Melbourne High School and graduated in dentistry at Melbourne University in April 1926. Passe

Born on 23 October 1857, the eldest child of John Moss Lawrence, a company director, and Emily Asher, his wife. He was educated at University College School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, and afterwards at Vienna. He served as senior house surgeon 1884-85 at St Bartholomew's, and later as chief aura