Robert Davies Cundrall was a missionary surgeon and a general practitioner. He was born in Wuhan, China, on 26 August 1924, where his parents, Edward and Mary Cundall, were Methodist missionaries. His parents had to make the very difficult decision to send him home to school in England at the age of

John Leonard Wilkinson, known as Len, was a medical missionary and superintendent of Nixon Memorial Hospital, Segbwema, Sierra Leone and the author of *Neuroanatomy for medical students* (Bristol, John Wright & Sons Ltd, 1986). He was born in Kidderminster on 24 May 1924 to John Thomas Wilkinson, a

Charles Hartley served much of his professional life as a missionary and surgeon at Vom Christian Hospital, Nigeria. He later entered general practice in Falmouth. He was born in Newcastle, Staffordshire, on 22 January 1922. His father was Harold Hartley, a senior consulting surgeon at North Staffor

John Wycliffe Coleman, one of three hostages detained for eight months following the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1980 and released after the intervention of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was a missionary doctor who worked tirelessly in the Middle East and in the East End of London. He was born on

The third son of Robert Schofield, of Heybrook, Rochdale, by his second wife, Mary Ainsworth Taylor. His eldest brother was Alfred T Schofield, MD, MRCS Edin, well known as a general practitioner and writer. Robert was educated at the Old Trafford School, near Manchester, and at Owens College, where

Born on 2 January 1867 at Rotherfield Hall, Sussex, the eldest of the four sons of Thomas William Masterman of Tunbridge Wells and Margaret Hanson Gurney, his wife, daughter of Thomas Gurney of New Park Lodge, Brixton Hill. His brothers all distinguished themselves: John Howard Bertram Masterman

Born on August 1st, 1874, the eldest son of James Gibb, insurance broker and underwriter at Lloyd's, who was MP (Lib) for the Harrow Division of Middlesex. His mother was Helen, daughter of the Rev David Nimmo, Congregational minister. Gibb was educated at the City of London School and served for si

Educated at the London Hospital, he came under the influence of Dr Barnado, who was then prominent in his Christian relief work in the East End. Gushue-Taylor served as principal medical officer to Dr Barnado's Homes and Hospitals. He went as a medical missionary to Formosa, then a Japanese colony,

Born at Bristol 1874, he was educated at the Bristol School of Medicine and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He acted for a time as clinical assistant at the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden Square, but never intended to practise privately. His whole heart lay in the mission field. He was an

Educated at King's College Hospital, he served as assistant demonstrator of anatomy at King's College, and as house surgeon at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. He went as a medical missionary to India for the Church Missionary Society, and was surgeon to the Society's Hospital at Dera Ismail Khan

Roland Maitland Alderton was born on 20 June 1902 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, son of David Simpson, a miller and corn merchant, and Margaret McLachlan, daughter of a clergyman. He was educated at Tonbridge School and the London Hospital, qualifying MRCS LRCP in 1930 and MB BS in 1931. After working as

Joseph Taylor was a former medical missionary in Tanzania. He was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928. In 1938 his parents brought him and his twin brother to England as the Nazis marched into Czechoslovakia. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's. After qualifying, he made ophthalmology his career,