Cooper, of a Parsi family, was educated at Bombay, at University College Hospital and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After an appointment as assistant honorary surgeon at the Metropolitan Hospital, London, he practised at Bombay and was for some years an examiner in surgery at the University of Bomba

Leonard George Phillips was born in London on 5 December 1890. He was educated at the William Ellis School, the University of London and the Middlesex Hospital for which he gained an entrance scholarship in 1910. He won the Lyall Gold Medal and scholarship for practical surgery in 1914. He was turne

Born in 1882, the daughter of James Lewis, Lieutenant, Royal Navy and Emily Catherine Wooldridge, in her late 20's she gave up a successful teaching career in music to take up the study of medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1917 and graduatin

Arthur Wilfred Adams was born in Bristol on 30 September 1892 and educated at Clifton College, the Bristol Medical School and the London Hospital. He qualified in 1916 and then served in the RAMC. He took the FRCS in 1919, less than one year after demobilization, and proceeded to the MS in 1921. The

Robert Kennon was born on February 25, 1889 in Warrington, Lancashire, the son of Robert Kennon, a company secretary and his wife Ann, née Allen. He was educated at Boteler Grammar School, Warrington, and at Liverpool University where he was Tate and Gree Scholar. After qualifying MRCS, LRCP and MB,

Margaret Mary Basden was born in Nottingham on 3 April 1886, she was the daughter of Hope, née Figgis, and Duncan Frederick Basden who was a chartered accountant. The family moved to Hampstead while she was still a young child and she attended King Alfred's School. There was a medical tradition i

Simeon Cyril Shaw was born in Horsham on 11 March 1893 and after early education at Reigate Grammar School entered Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1917. He served in the Royal Navy during the first world war and after demobilisation returned to the Middlesex to work in the Bland-Sut

Gerald Victor Wright Anderson was born on 19 October 1893 at Porth Nolloth, Cape Colony, during the Boer War. His schooling was very erratic with short spells in Mombasa, England and France. He entered Bristol University for one year in 1909 and passed his first MB, but then rejoined his father as a

John Bruce Baird was born in Winton, Otago, New Zealand, on 29 July 1885, son of James Baird, a Presbyterian minister, and Elizabeth Stephen. Bruce was the youngest of seven children, five of whom became doctors; of these, two were girls: Helen and Agnes; they were among the earliest women medical s

Ronald Ogier Ward was born on 6 March 1886, the son of a general practitioner, Dr Allan Ogier Ward, and was educated at Magdalen College School, Queen's College, Oxford, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1912 and took his Oxford degree in 1913. He was most distinguished, bot

Timbrell Fisher was born at Bristol on 1 November 1887 the second son of Canon W H Fisher. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol University, and St Bartholomew's Hospital qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1911. He was a house officer at Bristol General Hospital and demonstrator of surgic

H W L Molesworth, a very human and kindly man, was known to his friends as "Moley" or "the Old Mole". He was the son of Mr Justice Molesworth, Puisne Justice of Victoria and was born in Melbourne in 1892. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and subsequently at Tonbridge School and the London