Born at Durston Lodge, Somerset, on October 7th, 1841; his father, who came of a well-known county family, farmed and at one time kept a pack of harriers. His boyhood gave the son a love of hunting, horses, and country life, but financial straits prevented him from following it. After leaving King

Born at Bendigo, Victoria on 1 January 1867, the younger son of James Boyd, MD St Andrews 1852, who was attached to the Bendigo Gold District Hospital. He was educated at Bendigo and at the University of Melbourne, served as resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital from April 1891 to May 1

It could be said that had Tom Smiley not been a cigarette smoker in 1941, his patients and colleagues, thoracic surgery and his own family and local community would never have known him as a fine surgeon, husband and father and dedicated churchman, for it was a cigarette-case in his breast-pocket wh

Thomas Boyd was born in Glasgow on 7 June 1918, the son of Harold Arthur Boyd and his wife Edith, née Somerville. He was educated at Glasgow Academy. His father was chairman and director of the family engineering business, J & T Boyd Ltd., and Thomas went through an engineering apprenticeship from 1

Born at Southsea, Hants on 12 December 1892, the son of Joseph Thomas Purkis, captain, RN, and Jessie Jane Bond, his wife. He was educated at Eltham College and at Guy's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to the ophthalmic and the ear, nose, and throat departments. He then served as medical office

Born at Llanelly, South Wales on 18 June 1881, second son of Henry Roger Thomas and Edith Anne Thomas, his wife. He was educated at the Friends School, Bootham, entered the Leeds Medical School in 1898, and afterwards studied at the London Hospital, whence he took the London and Conjoint qualificati

Kenneth Edgar Bond spent much of his career as a surgeon working in India. The son of Edward Vines Bond, the rector of Beddington, and Rose Edith née Bridges, the daughter of a landowner, he was born on 24 October 1908 and was educated at Mowden School, Brighton, and Haileybury College, before going

Hubert Bond Stafford Kemp, known as ‘Hugh’, was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH), Stanmore. Born on 25 March 1925, the son of John Stafford Kemp and Cecilia Isabel née Bond, he was educated at Cardiff High School, the University of South Wales and St

Arthur MacGregor Morris was a distinguished consultant in plastic and reconstructive surgery in Dundee. He was born on 6 May 1941 and was educated at Dulwich College, Selwyn College, Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital Medical School, London. He qualified in 1965. He held his house posts at Guy’s and wa

Born at Hoath, near Canterbury, and was educated at Guy's Hospital. He was elected President of the Physical Society, and it was before this Society that, in 1869, he read the paper on "Nephrotomy and Excision of the Kidney" which is said to have led to the use at Guy's Hospital of operative measure

Born at Kibworth in October, 1834, the son of John Marriott, MRCS, who practised at Kibworth for fifty-five years, while his grandfather practised there for over fifty years. He went to Uppingham School and was then a pupil of Henry Terry (qv), Surgeon to Northampton Hospital. After three years' app