Norman Lloyd Crabtree was an ENT surgeon in Birmingham. He was born on 2 June 1916 in Birmingham, the only child of Herbert Crabtree, a clergyman and past president of the Unitarian Assembly, and Cissie Mabel née Taylor. He was educated at Alleyn’s School and then, following the advice of Sir Cecil

Roger Edward Cudmore was a consultant paediatric surgeon at Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool. He studied medicine in Sheffield and then served for two years in a Methodist hospital in Nigeria. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the children’s hospitals in Liverpool in 1972, where he was truly a gen

Francois Darné was an eminent surgeon in Mauritius and, as a former ambassador to France, a renowned diplomat. During the war he served in the Emergency Medical Service in London and also gave lectures in anatomy at the University of Cambridge and at UCL, where he was the first Mauritian to be appoi

Albert Davis was an obstetrician and pioneering neuro-gynaecologist. He born on 4 January 1904 into a Jewish family in Manchester, where he studied medicine and became resident at the Manchester Royal Infirmary to Sir Harry Platt and Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, who greatly influenced him. He soon de

The second son of E M Greenhow, MD, for many years a popular medical practitioner in North Shields. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and served for about two years as an Assistant Surgeon in the Army. He settled in practice at Newcastle in 1817 and was soon appointed Surgeon to the Lying-in

Studied at University College Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. He practised in South London: at 5 Union Terrace, Peckham; 20 Warwick Place, Peckham Rye, where about 1855 he was in partnership with Thomas Morris, MD; at Queen's Road, Peckham; at Talfourd House, Camberwell, where in 1875 he had a

Robin Denham was an orthopaedic surgeon in Portsmouth. He was born on 18 April 1922, and studied medicine at St Thomas’s medical school in London, qualifying in 1945. He was a senior registrar at Rowley Bristow Hospital in Pyrford and at St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey. He was subsequently appointed t

Studied at the Exeter and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. Entering the Navy, he served on HMS *Hydra* and HMS *Vesuvius* on West India Stations during 1860-1864. During the yellow fever epidemic in 1864 he was attached to the Royal Naval Hospital, Bermuda. From 1865-1867 he was Assistant Surgeon at Gree

Bill Doey was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London. He was born in Bessbrook, county Armagh, Northern Ireland, on 22 February 1912, the son of Rev Thomas Doey, a Presbyterian minister. His mother was Charlotte Chesney née McCay, the

Practised at 1 Bloomsbury Place, Bloomsbury Square, and afterwards at 25 Guilford Street, London, WC. He was at one time Surgeon-Accoucheur to the Royal Maternity and Great Queen Street Lying-in Charities, Surgeon to the London Female Penitentiary and to the Hon Society of Ancient Britons. He died a

John Herbert Harker Webster was a consultant surgeon in Southampton. He was born in Heswall, Cheshire, on 2 October 1929, the son of Herbert Webster, a biscuit manufacturer, and Doris Louise née Harker, the daughter of a chandler. In 1935 the family moved to Prenton in order to be near to Birkenhead

Born in London on May 1st, 1785. His grandfather, a Scotsman, served with the army at the Battle of the Boyne. His father succeeded his maternal uncle, a retired Naval Surgeon, as manager of a business for the sale of lead plaister. Guthrie learnt French from the Abbé Noel when quite a boy, and spok