Born on 22 July 1875 the only child of Ernest Wirgman and Mary Williams his wife, he was educated at Harrow and University College Hospital, where he served as ophthalmic house surgeon. He was clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, and practised throughout his career

Born at Oldham, 20 September 1878, the fourth child and second son of Edward Richards Noall, waste merchant, and Jane Stevens Paynter, his wife. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and afterwards entered Owens College, where he acted as prosector in anatomy. Coming to London he took courses

Born 7 September 1877, third son of the Rev W Morgan Jones, Rector of Marks Tey, Essex, and Emma Gray, his wife. He was educated at St Paul's School, as a capitation scholar 1889-90 and a foundationer 1890-95, and at St George's Hospital, where he won an entrance scholarship in 1895 and was subseque

Born on 14 July 1871 at Deptford, Kent, second son of Edwin Unwin, master printer, and Elizabeth Spicer, his wife. His younger brother Stanley became chairman of George Allen and Unwin Ltd, publishers, was president of the Publishers' Association 1933-35, and was knighted. William Unwin was educated

Born at Melbourne in 1879, eldest child of John Cooke, pasturalist, who had formerly lived in New Zealand, and Edith Marshall, his wife. He was educated at Melbourne University, where he qualified in 1901, and served as house physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He took the BS in 1902 and then

Born on 8 April 1875 in India, son of Surgeon-Major E P Burrows of the Bombay Army, Harold Burrows was educated at Marlborough and St Bartholomew's Hospital. His father had studied medicine there and two of his own sons followed him. At St Bartholomew's he was chiefly influenced by C B Lockwood and

Born on 28 March 1879 son of Thomas Fairbank MD, MRCS a practitioner at Windsor, he was educated at Epsom College from which he gained an open scholarship to Charing Cross Hospital. He qualified in 1898 as a doctor and in 1899 as a dentist but, after a house surgeon's appointment at Charing Cross, h