Born at Campana, Buenos Aires, Argentina on 27 August 1888, the son of Dr Michael John Petty, who practised there, he was educated at Prior Park School, Bath and Downing College, Cambridge where he took second class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1909. He worked at King's College, L

Born 1 June 1886, the only son of James Cossar Ewart (1851-1933), MD, FRS, for forty-five years (1882-1927) Regius Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University, and his second wife Edith Sophia, daughter of George Turner, MRCS, of Sherborne, and sister of Sir George R Turner and Edward B Tur

He was educated at Guy's Hospital where he won the gold medal in surgery and served as house surgeon and surgical registrar. Subsequently he was appointed surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children and to the Weir Hospital, Balham. He was surgeon to the Southern Railway and a member of the Me

He received his medical education at University College, London, and was consulting surgeon to the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he was officer in charge of the surgical division of the General Military Hospital at Edmonton. At one time he was senior demonstrator of

Born on 22 June 1888, son of Dr Arthur John Jefferson of Rochdale and younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University, where he shared the Dumville surgical prize with J S B Stopford. Qualifying in 1911 with the conjoint diploma and t

Born on 14 February at 43 Oxford Street, Wednesbury, the son of Samuel Tonks, retired commercial traveller, and Edith Jennie Ross Wilson, his wife. He was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall under J A Alldis and H Bompas Smith. Admitted to Caius College, Cambridge on 1 October 1906, he

"Glen", as he was known to all his friends, came to England from New Zealand in 1904 and entered Guy's hospital in 1905. He qualified in 1911 and became house surgeon to Arbuthnot Lane. He entered general practice at Watford in 1914 with Dr F H Berry, whose daughter Frida he married in 1915. He serv

Born at Gravesend on 26 November 1869, he qualified from the Middlesex Hospital in 1892, and was commissioned a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the RAMC on 29 January 1894 and promoted Captain on 29 January. He saw active service in China in 1900, was mentioned in dispatches and won the medal and clasp. He wa