Henry Leo Brewer was born on 10 June 1909 at Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia. His father Sydney was a master builder and his mother Annie May de Piazza came from an Italian family who emigrated to Australia in the early 1870's and settled on land which the family still farm. His early education was

Leicester Hammond Aitken was born on 10 January 1911 in Wallasey, England, son of Alexander, a schoolmaster and Florence (Hammond). Presumably his parents emigrated to New Zealand as he was educated at Waitaki School and Otago University, qualifying in 1937. During the second world war he served

After passing the College Fellowship in 1941 Vijoy Narain Singh returned to India and practiced at the Patna Medical College Hospital, Bihar. He is thought to have died in 1984 or 1985.

Muller studied medicine at the Ceylon Medical College, gaining its LMS in 1934 before coming to Britain and gaining the MB BS in 1938 and the Fellowship in 1941. In Ceylon he was surgeon in charge of the orthopaedic clinic in Colombo, while in Britain he was senior registrar at the Royal National Or

Albert Arthur Wearne was born at Wollongong, New South Wales, on 13 September 1906, the son of Walter Wearne, a bookseller and Emilie, nee Greene. His early education was at Brisbane Grammar School and Fort Street Boys' High School, Sydney, from which he won an exhibition to Sydney University. He qu

Leon Henry was born in Wallasey, Liverpool, on 30 October 1911. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute, where he was a distinguished classical scholar and athlete. He won an exhibition to Cambridge, but for family reasons he went to Liverpool, where he won several medals and prizes and graduated

Charles Workman Maclay was born in Glasgow on 4 November 1913 and educated at Glasgow Academy and at Strathallan where he won a gold medal and was dux of the school. As a student at Glasgow University he won the Lorimer Bursary in anatomy and physiology, the Macleod Gold Medal in surgery, and the As

Harland Rees was born on 21 September 1909 at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, into a medical family. His father, David Charles Rees, was a specialist in tropical medicine and had served in Lugard's frontier force, which kept the French at bay in West Africa in 1897. Four years later, he went to South

Barry was born on 19 March 1903 at Cork in Ireland, the elder son of Jerome Barry, Fleet Surgeon RN, and was educated at the Christian Brothers' School, Cork, Clongowes Wood College and University College Cork. After graduation and a period as a house surgeon at Cork he followed his father into t

William Crisp was born in Edinburgh on 5 December 1914, being the eldest son of Thomas Crisp (MD Edin) who was a medical practitioner and his wife, Janet (née Cowie). In 1921 the family moved to Chorley, Lancs, where Thomas established himself in general practice. William went to Bolton School and t

Stephen Elsenhammer received his medical education in Cape Town and Edinburgh, qualifying MB ChB Edinburgh in 1930. He obtained his Fellowship in 1941 and specialised in proctology, holding house positions at St Mark's Hospital before returning to South Africa and practising in Johannesburg for many

Born in 1913 at Grassington, Yorkshire, he was the elder son of Professor H S Raper DSc, FRS, Professor of Physiology in Leeds from 1917 to 1923 and in Manchester from 1923 to 1946, when he became Dean of the Faculty until his death in 1951. Raper was educated at Giggleswick School and the medical s