Born on 12 August 1880 he was educated at University College, London, where he was Bucknill Scholar, and at University College Hospital where he gained the Atkinson Morley surgery scholarship and was house surgeon, demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer on surgical anatomy. During the war of 1914-1

Born in Tasmania in 1880, he was taken to New Zealand as an infant of a week old by his father, a schoolteacher, who settled at Waikowaiti in North Otago, and in due course he entered Otago University where he graduated in medicine and science and then came to England, becoming one of the first New

Born at Pewsey Vale, South Australia, the pastoral estate settled in 1838 by his grandfather Joseph Gilbert who came from Pewsey, Wiltshire, and thus a third generation Australian in one of the longest established South Australian families, he was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, and the Un

Born on 25 July 1873 the second child and only son of Richard Richards, yeoman farmer, and his wife Jennet Rees, he was educated at Weston School, Bath and Thistleton House School, Mumbles near Swansea, and received his medical training at St Bartholomew's. He qualified in 1897 and entered the menta

Born in Ceylon 5 November 1879 son of Mudaliyar William Marcellus De Silva, he was educated at Royal College, Colombo, and at the London Hospital Medical College from which he took the Fellowship, being the first Ceylonese postgraduate student to do so. He returned to Colombo where he made a dist

Born in London on 13 April 1880, one of the five sons of Briton Riviere RA, the distinguished painter of animals, and Mary Alice Dobell his wife, he was educated at St Paul's School, St Andrews University, and St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was house surgeon. He was house physician at the Genera

Born 11 March 1881, second son and second of the eleven children of Robert Milne, MD, of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, and Mary Thompson, his wife. Dr Milne practised at Bow in East London, and was medical director of Dr Barnardo's Homes for orphaned children. One of his daughters became matron of St Ma

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

Born on 25 October 1878 at Cambridge son of Edward Moore he matriculated in 1897 as a non-collegiate student, entered Christ's College in 1898 where he was elected a scholar on winning first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1900, and won a scholarship to St Bartholomew's Hospital

Gwynne Williams was born in 1881 at Luton, the son of Herbert Owen Williams JP, a timber merchant, and Edith Jane Edwards his wife. He went from Bedford Grammar School to University College Hospital where he had a brilliant career as a student and a resident; he played rugger for the Hospital and wa

Born on 18 March 1878 at Streatham Hill, London, the only son of John Taylor, wine merchant of Dean Street, Tooley Street, London Bridge and Alice Miller Gordon daughter of William Gordon, stockbroker of Union Street, Aberdeen; he and his sister were taken by their mother to Aberdeen when their fath

Born on 4 September 1880 eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Samuel Johnson (1846-99), Medical Officer of Health for Stoke-on-Trent and Julia his wife, daughter of James Webb. Mrs Johnson died only in 1931; her children had all adopted her maiden surname, Webb, before their father's name. Dr