Kenneth Rostron received his medical education at Cambridge and Manchester and qualified in 1937, obtaining the DOMS in 1947 and his Fellowship in 1950. After qualifying and deciding to specialise in ophthalmology he was chief clinical assistant at the Westminster branch of Moorfields and at the Cen

Peter Rycroft was born in Bradford, Yorkshire on 11 October 1928, the elder son of Sir Benjamin Rycroft and his wife, Mary, née Rhodes. He went to school at St Piran's on the Hill, Maidenhead, and at Stowe, and from there proceeded to his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He continue

Andrew Rugg-Gunn was born on 26 November 1884 at Altandhu, Ross and Cromarty, in north-west Scotland, the eldest of the five children of John Douglas Gunn, a school-master, and Mary Maclean his wife. He was educated and graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1907. He then went int

Born on 19 March 1896 in London he was educated at William Ellis School, King's College, and the Westminster Hospital where he won a gold medal at graduation. Qualifying in the middle of the first world war, he was commissioned a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and transferred to the Royal Flyi

After qualifying in New Zealand he worked as house surgeon in the Public Health Hospital, Dunedin and then in the Public Health Hospital, Wellington. Coming to England to obtain his Fellowship, for a time he was senior house surgeon at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and later became consult

Born on 3 September 1868 he was educated at Bristol University, where he won the Gilchrist Scholarship, at University College, London and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He became a BSc with honours in physiology at the age of 22, qualifying with the Conjoint diploma the following year. He had from th

Born at Parkville, Melbourne, 3 November 1905, he was educated at Prince's Hill State School, at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he was a scholar and second to the school *dux*, and at Ormond College where he won the first-year exhibition in natural philosophy. He held resident posts at the Royal M

Born in 1878 son of James Gibb, M P for Harrow, he was educated at St Paul's School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he took first class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, in 1900. He took his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he served as house surgeon to

Dorothy Rose Adams was born in St Albans, Herts, on 12 April 1902, the first child of Harry Adams a contractor, and Miriam, nee Rose. She was educated at Claire House School, St Albans, and North London Collegiate School and gained an entrance exhibition to Girton College, Cambridge, in 1920. Doroth

The Hon Geoffrey John Orlando Bridgeman, the second son of the first Viscount Bridgeman, was born on 3 July 1898 at 39 Harley Street, London. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College Cambridge, and served in the Royal Field Artillery during the first world war, and was awarded the MC in 1918. He

Ralph Newton McCann was born in Australia and from 1934 to 1940 was at St Peter's Collegiate in Adelaide. He then attended the University and Royal Adelaide Hospital graduating MB BS in 1946. After a year in a house appointment he served in the Australian Army with BCOF Japan in 1947-48 and at Woome

Ernest Davies was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at King's College Hospital, London. He was born on 18 September 1931 in Pontypool, Wales, the son of Rupert Grinnis Davies and Beryl Matilda Davies née Lewis. He was educated at West Monmouth School and then St Catherine's College, Cambridge and St M