Educated at Edinburgh University, St Bartholomew's, the London and the Middlesex Hospitals, he was house surgeon at Burton-on-Trent Infirmary. Ussher emigrated to Timaru, New Zealand, where he practised at 48 Sefton Street and became senior surgeon to the Hospital. He died there on 14 February 1964

Born on 30 December 1878 the eldest child of George Gray, bookkeeper, and Mary McKinley, his wife. He was educated at John Street School, Bridgeton, Glasgow and at Glasgow University, where he qualified in 1904 and served as demonstrator of anatomy. Gray entered the West African medical service and

Born on 24 February 1878 the second son of John Albert Thompson, printer, and his wife née Stubley, he was educated at Liverpool College and at University College, Liverpool, where he graduated in 1903 through the Victoria University, just before Liverpool became an independent university. He won th

Born at Glenelg, South Australia in 1876, third son of Charles Rischbieth, merchant, of Adelaide. He was educated at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1898. He then entered the London Hospital, w

Henry Hallett Dale was born in London on 9 June 1875 and educated at the Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He got a first-class in the Natural Science Tripos and spent two years doing research in the physiology laboratory under Langley before proceeding to St Bartholomew's hospital for his

Born on 16 August 1876, eldest son of William Abraham JP of Coleraine Co. Derry, he was educated at Coleraine Academy and at Trinity College Dublin, where he was senior moderator and won the gold medal for natural science. At the same time he showed his literary bent by winning prizes for literature

Born 20 June 1880 at 11 Eldon Square, Newcastle-on-Tyne, the youngest child, with a brother and a sister, of John Hope, MRCS 1865, and Jessie Anne Martin, his wife. John Hope died in February 1883, and the children were brought up by their grandfather. Charles Hope was educated at Clifton College an

Born 5 September 1881 at Trinidad, British West Indies, third son of Eugene Simon Giuseppi, planter, and Adela Coryat, his wife. He was educated at St Mary's College, Trinidad, and entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College with a Jeaffreson exhibition in 1900; he won a junior scholarship 190

Ernest Finch was born on 2 September 1884 son of Frederick James Finch, and was educated at Commercial Travellers Schools, Hatch End, Middlesex, gaining an entrance scholarship to Sheffield University which at that time was without a charter and unable to grant medical degrees. He qualified as MB

Ernest Cowell was born on 24 February 1886, son of Jasper Cowell of Steyning, Sussex, and was educated at Steyning Grammar School and University College Hospital Medical School where he graduated in 1907, taking the Conjoint Diploma the same year, and went on to take his MD degree in 1909 and the Fe