Born on 14 August 1886 at Bedlington, Northumberland, third child and eldest son of James Saint, schoolmaster, and Mary Anne Downie Morris, daughter of Thomas Common Morris, a farmer and butcher. Charles Saint's uncle, his brother and several relations of a third generation entered the medical profe

John Tertius Morrison was born in Calcutta on 19 January 1888 of Scottish missionary parents. He grew up in Paisley and Edinburgh, where he graduated in medicine in 1911, winning the Ettles Scholarship. After studying in London he gained the FRCS in 1913. He served throughout the first world war in

Norman Lake was born in Plymouth in July 1888. He had a brilliant undergraduate career in the University of London, taking a BSc degree with honours in anatomy and morphology, and also honours in anatomy and physiology in the second MB, and passing the final MB BS in 1910. Next year he won the gold

Sidney Bertram Radley was born on 18 September 1888 and received his medical education at Manchester University and St Bartholomew's Hospital, graduating in London with honours and a distinction in medicine in 1911, and in Manchester with second-class honours in the same year. In 1913 he took both t

Francis Gordon Bell was born at Marlborough, New Zealand, in 1887, and was educated at Marlborough High School, where he became captain of rugby and vice-captain of the cricket team. He came to Britain in 1905 and entered Edinburgh University, where he was awarded the Vans Dunlop Scholarship in anat

Frederick Glover Neason Stephens studied at the University of Sydney and gained the MB in 1908 and the ChM in 1910. He was resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney in 1908. He came to England for further study and gained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons i