Ronald Ludlow Benison was born on 22 November 1908. He was educated at Cambridge University and St Bartholemew's Hospital, London where he qualified in 1934. In due course he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Wolverhampton Group of Hospitals. Ronald Benison had a distinguished academic record

Samuel Marshall Thompson was born in Leeds in 1909, the son of Walter Thompson FRCS (1886-1924), see *Lives of the Fellows*, vol.2, p.409, consultant surgeon to Leeds General Infirmary. His mother was one of the early graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women. He was educated at Uppingh

Arthur Lister was born in Aberdeen on 12 February 1905. His father was a physician and Lord Lister was his great-uncle. He was educated at Lancing and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1927. He began his clinical studies that year, entering the London Hospital with a Price Univers

William Gordon Gill was born in Reigate on 3 January 1908. He was educated at Kingswood School, Seaford, and Marlborough College, from where he won an exhibition to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. From Cambridge he went to Guy's Hospital where he qualified in 1932; becoming FRCS in 1934 and M

Frank Wild Holdsworth was born in Bradford on 22 September 1904, and was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge, proceeding to St George's Hospital in 1926. He became a Fellow of the College in 1930, and obtained the Cambridge degrees of MB BCh in 1934 and MCh in 1935.

Philip Ghey was born of a Quaker background in Plymouth in 1909, and was educated at Kelly College in Tavistock, Devon, and St John's College, Cambridge. He completed his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1933, but he had already passed his Primary FRCS as a third