Studied at Westminster Hospital, where he was Guthrie Scholar in 1891, President's Prizeman and Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1893, and later House Surgeon. He served next as Medical Officer on the steamships Fifeshire, Mound, and Buteshire, then practised for a time at Winton, New Z

Born on 14 October 1875, he won a Grierson bursary at Edinburgh University in 1893 and qualified in 1898. After a term as assistant house surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary in 1899 he attended the Yorkshire College, now Leeds University, and proceeded to the Edinburgh MD in 1905. While at Leeds he m

Born at Foxton, Leicestershire on 26 March 1878 he trained at Guy's Hospital, qualifying in 1903 with the Conjoint Diploma and graduating at the University of London. He took the Fellowship in 1904 and the MD in 1905. After house appointments at Guy's he was in general practice first at Southport an

Born 15 July 1870 at Hall Bower, Denby Dale, near Huddersfield, third child and second son of Joshua Oldfield and Emma Davison, his wife. He was educated at a Grammar School and Leeds Medical School, taking the Conjoint qualification in 1893 and the London MB in 1895 BS in 1896. He proceeded to the

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 30 September 1873 at Isleworth Vicarage, the younger son of the Rev H W P Richards, prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, and his wife Jessie Margaret, daughter of the Rt Hon Peter Erie, QC, PC. He was a King's Scholar at Eton 1887-92, from whence he went up to New College, Oxford; he took first-c

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 23 August 1864, the second son of major (brevet lieutenant-colonel) John McDowell Elliot, of the 4th King's Own Royal Regiment of Foot. He was educated at Bedford School and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained the preliminary scientific exhibition and was awarded the Bentley prize for

Born on 31 December 1878 one of the eight sons of Charles H L Fitzwilliams JP, of Newcastle Emlyn, Cardiganshire. His boyhood was spent in the country, hunting, shooting and fishing, observing nature and his own relative insignificance, though in physique he was a giant; these years laid the foundat

Born 7 April 1879, the fifth child and fourth son of Robert Kelly, a leading iron merchant of Liverpool, and his wife, *née* Brazier. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute and University College, then a constituent of the Victoria University. He was one of the first medical graduates of the Uni

Archibald Gray was born at Ottery St Mary, Devon, the son of Frederick Archibald Gray MRCS (1872) in practice there; he was educated at Cheltenham College and then at University College and Hospital London. He graduated with honours in 1903 and proceeded to the MD with the University Gold Medal in 1