Born 20 July 1858 at Wendlebury, Bicester, Oxfordshire, the youngest of the six children, five sons and a daughter, of John Tanner, farmer, and Ann Foster, his wife. He was educated at Buckingham Grammar School and St Mary's Hospital. He was scholar in ophthalmology, third session scholar, prosector

Born at Wellington, Somerset on 24 September 1864, the sixth child and fourth son of William Elworthy, woollen manufacturer, and Mary Scott Williamson, his wife. He was educated at Taunton College and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He acted as casualty officer at the Royal Northern Hospital, was assi

Born at Hill House, Wickwar, Gloucestershire on 10 July 1869, the eighth child and sixth son of John Arnold, brewer and farmer, and Clara Harward his wife. The six consecutive sons were followed by two daughters. He was educated at the local grammar school before entering St Thomas's Hospital, where

Born in Guernsey on 6 May 1868, the second son of the Rev N B Randall, congregational minister, and Mary Domaille of La Villette, Guernsey, his wife. He was educated at Mount Radford School, Exeter, and then after some private teaching went to University College, London. He had a brilliant career at

Frank Colby was born at The Mount, New Malton, Yorks, on 27 January 1865, the second son of Dr W Taylor Colby, JP and the younger brother of J G E Colby, FRCS. He was educated at St Peter's School, York, and matriculated from King's College, Cambridge, after winning an open scholarship in science. H

Born 14 March 1870 at 51 Falkland Road, Kentish Town, NW, the fourth child and second son of Henry Hainworth, civil servant, who at the time of his birth was a principal clerk in the War Office, and Louisa Anne Roberts, his wife. He was educated at a small school, kept by Messrs Bell and Brown at Gr

Born 6 April 1863 at Spilsby, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of the Rev Charles George Ridley, who came from Kimbolton, and Mary Vine, his wife. He was educated at Boston Grammar School and at St Mary's Hospital, where he gained scholarships in natural science and pathology. He acted subsequently as h

Born 1870 at St Arnaud, Mornington peninsula, Victoria, Australia, son of the Rev Ralph Brown, he was educated at Toorak College and at Queen's College, Melbourne University. He won several scholarships, graduating in medicine and surgery in 1892 with the Beaney scholarship and the first place in su

Born 25 January 1870, ninth and youngest child and fifth son of Frederic Turner of Nizels, Hildenborough, near Sevenoaks, Kent, a retired army clothier, and Martha Orr Faithfull, his wife, daughter of Lt-Col Richard Coventry Faithfull, HEICS. His father died when William was a very small child. He w

Born 12 November 1866 at Neath, Glamorgan, fifth child and third son of Alfred Curtis, solicitor, and Hannah Davies, his wife. Alfred Curtis was town clerk of Neath and clerk to the borough and county justices from 1866 to 1886. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School, at University College, Lo

Born in London on 14 August 1867, eldest child of William Greenwood Sutcliffe, MRCS 1865, of 2 Ashville Place, Battersea Park, and Mary Sophia Pottle, his wife. He was educated at the City of London School and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he won the Cheselden medal and was house surgeon. After ser

Born on 24 January 1864 the eldest son of (Sir) Thomas Smith FRCS, who became Assistant Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital a month later and was afterwards Consulting Surgeon and a Governor, was Vice-president of the College in 1887-8 and 1890-91, and was created a Baronet, of Stratford Place, in