Welby Earle Fisher was born in New Zealand and studied medicine at the University of Dunedin before coming to England to attend University College London. During his career he held appointments at the Chelsea Hospital for Women; the Queen's Hospital for Children; St Peter's Hospital for Genito-Urina

Robert Dow Forbes was born in 1879 and graduated MD at McGill University in 1903. He obtained the MRCS in 1906 and the FRCS in 1907. He returned to Stratford, Ontario, and in 1909 moved to Seattle where he practised from 1909 to 1950, and served as consultant at the University of Washington Medical

Thomas McPherson was born in Stratford, Ontario on 1 July 1880, and graduated from McGill University in Arts in 1901 and in Medicine in 1903. He then came to England and obtained the Conjoint Diploma in 1905, and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1907. On his return to Canada in 191

Herbert Wilberforce Perkins was doubly qualified in surgery and dental surgery. He was the third son of a silk weaver, William Perkins, and his wife Eleanor (Whitworth). Born in London on 29 January 1881 he was educated at Dame Owen's (Brewers' Company) School, London, and at the Middlesex and Royal

Hubert Chitty received his medical education at University College London graduating in 1904. During 1909-1911 he served as senior medical officer at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and then he joined the staff of that hospital as a general surgeon, but his chief interest was always in orthopaedic work

Richard Horace Paramore was born in 1876, and started his medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital with an entrance scholarship in science in 1895. The following year he won a junior scholarship in anatomy, distinctions indicating an intelligence which, when combined with the tendency to be argu

Born on 9 January 1882 at the Cape of Good Hope, one of the sons of a naval surgeon who later became Director-General of the Navy Medical Service as Sir Henry Norbury KCB, he was educated at St Paul's and Merchant Taylors' Schools and St Thomas's Medical School which he entered in 1899. He had a dis