Born in 1872 at Holstein, Canada, he received his early education at Mount Forest, and practised there for a year after graduation from the University of Toronto in 1895. He took postgraduate work in London, and was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons as a Member in 1900; he took the Fellowshi

Born on 23 July 1878 at Shere, Surrey, one of the two sons of George Fisher, MRCS 1867, who practised there, and Mary Ann Ramsden, his wife. He was educated at Epsom College, entered the London Hospital with the Epsom scholarship in 1896, and subsequently served as interne and externe resident accou

Born on 25 June 1876, fourth son of Christopher Heath (PRCS 1895-96, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery at University College Hospital) and his second wife Gabrielle Nora Maynard, he was educated at St Paul's, University College and University College Hospital. He took first-class honours at his

The fifth son and sixth child of George Parkin of Gateshead, jeweller, and Jane Owens, his wife, he was born in Wreckenton, Co Durham on 13 May 1879. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and at the Durham University College of Medicine. He graduated with first-class hono

Born 17 April 1873 son of William Scott, principal of Toronto Normal School. He was educated at the Ottawa Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, where he graduated in arts in 1895 and qualified in medicine three years later. He started to practise in Toronto, but spent some years in po

Born in Liverpool, 11 April 1878, the only son and eldest child of Henry Thompson, provision merchant and company director of Liverpool and Chester, and Elinor Julia Walker, his wife. He was educated at Arundel House School, Chester, where he was captain of both elevens. He won a high place in compe

Born 18 August 1876 at Indianapolis, U.S.A., the only child of Peter Roberts, a native of Wales, and his wife Helen, daughter of Alexander Grey, of Stirling, Scotland. His parents moved to Jarvis, Ontario, in the Niagara peninsula a fruit farming district, and Roberts was educated at public and high

Harry Overy was born 5 January 1875 at Brenchley, Kent, the first of the thirteen children (nine sons and four daughters) of Henry James Overy, a farmer, and Sarah Mannington, his wife. He assumed the name of Beckett-Overy by deed poll, after his marriage with May Beckit in 1906; Mrs Beckett-Overy d

Born on 2 September 1874, the second child of Joseph Addison and Marianne Brown his wife. He was educated at Marlborough College and at University College, London. After serving as house surgeon to (Sir) Victor Horsley at University College Hospital, where he formed a friendship with George Waugh, q

Born on 8 October 1874 at Atherton, Lancashire, eldest child of Thomas Watson, engineer, and his wife Sarah Bradley. He was educated at Rivington Grammar School, University College, Liverpool, where he won the Holt Fellowship in physiology 1899, King's College, London, and the London Hospital, where

Born 27 July 1875 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, Plymouth, only child of Staff-Surgeon Charles Lyon Ridout, RN, MRCS 1866, and Ada Perley Scott, his wife, daughter of Archibald Scott of Halifax, Nova Scotia. C L Ridout was at that time on the staff at Stonehouse and later served in HMS *To