Edward Woodman was born in Hornsey, London on 19 October 1884. His father was a chartered accountant. He was at school in Barnet and later in Bromley before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital where he passed the MB BS with honours and distinction in 1908. He worked at the Institute of Pathology unde

Born at Carmarthen on 29 May 1879, son of John Davies a ship's captain and his wife Mary Evans of Fishguard, he won a scholarship in natural science to University College, Cardiff, and took his medical training at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he won the Meadows prize in obstetrics and served as

Second son of James Blakeway, MRCVS, of Stourbridge, Worcestershire. Educated at Stourbridge; entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1903, where he won the Harvey Prize for Practical Physiology, the Brackenbury Scholarship in Surgery, the Willett Medal in Operative Surgery, the Walsham Prize for Surgi

Frederick Charles Pybus was born on 2 November 1883 in Stockton-on-Tees and graduated in medicine from the Newcastle College of Medicine of Durham University in 1906. He was house surgeon to Rutherford Morison and in 1910 worked with Ernest Miles at the Gordon Hospital, London. He served in Mesopota