EPSOM COLLEGE
1855-1899: CONSULTANTS, SENIOR MEDICAL OFFICERS OF
HEALTH AND MILITARY MEDICAL OFFICERS
[All individuals born prior to 1900].
Adams, Percy Targett (1863-1935). [1876-1879].
Alderson, Surgeon Commander Percy Francis (1876-1954). [1888-1893].
Alderton, Thomas Gunton (1850-1920). [1865-1869].
Alexander, Douglas Reid (1891-1951). [1902-1909].
Atkinson, Eric Miles (1895-1978). [1908-1912].
Atkinson, James Reginald (1876-1912). [1887-1893].
Bailey, Edward Townley (1898- ? ). [1913-1916].
Bailey, Thomas Hill (1870-1920). [1884-1887].
Barker, Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Rowland (1853-1922). [1868-1872].
Barron, Colonel Willie Netterville (1872-1930). [1886-1890].
Barton, Maurice Holdsworth (1889-1973). [1902-1908].
Beadles, Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Stanley (1875-1960). [1888-1892].
Beasley, Henry Eric (1896- ? ). [1907-1914].
Biggs, Arthur Cecil Barker (1885- ? ). [1897-1902].
Biggs, Air Vice Marshal Kenneth (1890- ? ). [1903-1908].
Bisshopp, Francis Robert Bryant (1859-1946). [1871-1872].
Borrett, Surgeon Captain George Goss (1864-1946). [1877-1879].
Bowes, Gerald Kessick (1890-1955). [1901-1909].
Bowes, William Henry (1861-1922). [1873-1880].
Brewer, Alexander Hampton (1875-1941). [1887-1893].
Bride, John Webster (1883-1963). [1897-1902].
Brown, Colonel Hubert Horan (1886- ? ). [1899-1904].
Brownfield, Surgeon Rear Admiral Owen Deane (1891-1955). [1904-1909].
Buckell, Ernest Hook (1852-1919). [1865-1869].
Buée, Kenneth Frederick Tooke (1862-1906). [1875-1878].
Burt, Joseph Barnes (1880-1953). [1894-1897].
Burton, Air Commodore Hugh Leonard (1887- ? ). [1899-1905].
Butler, Lieutenant-Colonel George Bleeck [afterwards Faskally] (1848-1912).
[1860-1864].
Cameron, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander (1879-1932). [1893-1897].
Campbell, Patrick Edward (1857-1927). [1871-1873].
Cardell, John Douglas Magor (1896-1966). [1909-1914].
Cardew, Arthur Barrett (1888- ? ). [1901-1906].
Carpenter, George Alfred (1859-1910). [1874-1876].
Carter, Frederick Heales (1853-1942). [1868-1871].
Cass, Henry (c. 1843-1899). [1856-1860].
Cass, William Cunningham (c.1846-1919). [1856-1856].
Chaldecott, John Henry (1861-1950). [1873-1880].
Chapman, Herbert Frederick (1853-1942). [1868-1872].
Chetwood, Thomas (1875-1938). [1888-1894].
Clark, William Thomas Marston (1857-1910). [1869-1874].
Clarke, Colonel Astley Vavasour (1870-1945). [1885-1885].
Clarke, Henry Joy (1882-1915). [1894-1900].
Clift, Samuel Leonard (1862-1915). [1876-1879].
Clothier, Henry (1842-1915). [1855-1860].
Coates, Mervyn Henry (1844- ? ). [1856-1856].
Cockey, Edmund Percival (1861-1917). [1873-1879].
Cogan, Lee Danby Buxton (1875-1956). [1888-1891].
Colborne, Surgeon Rear Admiral William John (1894-1971). [1909-1912].
Coleman, Frank (1876-1963). [1891-1893].
Collet, Augustus Henry (1844-1909). [1855-1860].
Collins, Henry Beale (1851-1918). [1866-1869].
Collum, Archie Tillyer (1867-1896). [1880-1886].
Collum, Rowland William (1874- ? ). [1887-1892].
Colmer, Ptolemy Augustus (1867-1931). [1880-1885].
Cookson, Frederick Nesfield (1871-1941). [1881-1889].
Corbould, Victor Albert Louis Edward (1866-1933). [1881-1885].
Corner, Harry (1864-1945). [1879-1883].
Corry, Darryl Cedric (1898-1984). [1909-1915].
Cowan, John Archer (1890-1937). [1902-1908].
Cree, Colonel Edward Russell (1858-1923). [1868-1870].
Cross, Major Claude Harold (1882-1944). [1896-1900].
Cummins, Major Arthur Gordon (1881-1947). [1895-1898].
Cummins, Nicholas Marshall (1892-1963). [1906-1909].
Cutfield, Arthur (1857-1916). [1868-1876].
Date, William Adlington (1894-1983). [1907-1912].
Davies, George Vincent (1895-1972). [1909-1913].
Deacon, John Nissen (1892-1959). [1905-1910].
Easmon, McCormack Charles Farrell (1890-1972). [1903-1907].
Eastes, Thomas (1849-1928). [1862-1867].
Eccles, Henry Ernest Karslake (1894-1962). [1910-1912].
Edye, Major John Simpson (1863-1909). [1877-1879].
Elliot, Norman Bruce (1851-1904). [1861-1862].
Elphick, Major Harry William (1865-1906). [1877-1883].
Eminson, Clarence Franklin (1895-1979]. [1909-1912].
Evans, Daniel Davies Gordon (1889- ? ). [1904-1908].
Evans, Major Douglas Gordon (1885- ? ). [1899-1903].
Evans, Harry Loft (1876- ? ). [1892-1895].
Fairbank, Fleet Surgeon Christian Beverley (1874-1947). [1888-1892].
Farr, Ernest Augustus (1863-1935). [1876-1879].
Farrant, Rupert (1883-1921). [1897-1901].
Ferguson, Archibald (1887-1936). [1901-1905].
Fisher, Edward Fow (1878-1948). [1889-1896].
Flint, Thomas Buxton (1869-1940). [1880-1882].
Folker, Herbert Henry (1864-1925). [1876-1881].
Fraser, Major Alexander Edward Gordon (1881-1956). [1894-1898].
Fuller, Thomas Warberton (1855-1883). [1864-1870].
Furnivall, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hilton (1873-1946). [1884-1890].
Garlick, George Herbert (1886-1958). [1898-1905].
Gater, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur William (1877-1953). [1891-1896].
Gibbons, Gerald Francis Petvin (1892-1975). [1906-1910].
Gibbs, Alfred Napier Godby (1857-1933). [1870-1874].
Gill, Lieutenant-Colonel Clifford Allchin (1878-1916). [1888-1890].
Gilmour, Surgeon Commander Robert Thomas (1867-1946). [1882-1884].
Gimlette, John Desmond (1867-1934). [1879-1884].
Grayling, Arthur (1858-1949). [1869-1876].
Grellier, Bernard (1886-1957). [1897-1904].
Grellier, Norman (1886-1949). [1897-1904].
Grimbly, Richard Henry (1852-1918). [1864-1868].
Hall, Walter Stanley (1866-1944). [1877-1882].
Hall-Wright, Francis Wyllie (1868-1939). [1881-1883].
Handfield-Jones, Ranald Montagu (1892-1978). [1907-1910].
Hardcastle, Professor William (1872-1924). [1886-1890].
Harsant, Joseph George (1861-1914). [1872-1880].
Harston, George Montague (1873-1934). [1890-1892].
Haynes, Frederick Harry (1845-1935). [1856-1860].
Haynes, Horace Guy Lankester (1877-1955). [1892-1896].
Haynes, Sydney Walter (1858-1946). [1868-1876].
Hefferman, Leslie William (1895-1957). [1911-1913].
Hewlett, Richard Frederick Lister (1898-1990). [1909-1915].
Hichens, William Cardozo (1864-1915). [1876-1882].
Hicks, John Athelstan Braxton (1885-1935). [1896-1902].
Highmoor, Richard Anthony (1899-1964). [1913-1917].
Hill, Horace Bryden (1879-1955). [1893-1898].
Hoffmeister, George Bernard (1858-1891). [1873-1877].
Hoffmeister, William (1843-1910). [1856-1860].
Holford, Walter Stanley (1866-1934). [1879-1882].
Hollis, Elphinstone (1850-1932). [1864-1868].
Holroyd, Henry (1881-1932). [1896-1900].
Holt, Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Mainwaring (1891-1962). [1905-1907].
Hooper, John William Dunbar (1860-1935). [1870-1873].
Houseman, James Gilpin (1859-1912). [1873-1873].
Hutcheson, Colonel George (1874-1944). [1890-1893].
Ive, Cyrus (1899- ? ). [1913-1917].
Jackson, Edward (1846-1924). [1858-1863].
Jackson, Henry Beecher (1879-1946). [1892-1898].
Johnston, John Edward Lionel (1881-1917). [1897-1898].
Jones, Arthur Bassett (1868-1935). [1884-1887].
Jones, Arthur Maddock (1889-1961). [1902-1908].
Jones, Thomas Caldwell Litler [later Litler-Jones] (1873- ? ). [1888-1889].
Keele, David (1870-1945). [1884-1887].
Keen, Ernest Beresford (1882-1925). [1896-1900].
Kendall, Nicholas Edward (1890-1969). [1905-1909].
Kennard, Charles Poole (1865-1945). [1877-1881].
Kent, Charles Arthur (1867-1948). [1878-1885].
Kidd, Harold Andrew (1864-1929). [1878-1883].
Kirwan-Taylor, Harold George (1895-1981). [1909-1913].
Knight, Henry Ernest (1866-1927). [1880-1884].
Lansdown, Robert Guthrie Poole (1863-1924). [1880-1882].
Lathbury, Colonel Edward Browning (1881-1945). [1897-1899].
Lawrence, Henry Gwynne (1870-1944). [1884-1889].
Lee, Herbert Grove (1840-1909) [1855-1857].
Lee, Timothy Wood (1846-1920). [1860-1863].
Leigh, William ( ? -1895). [1858-1859].
Ley, Henry James (1860-1936). [1873-1877].
Ley, John William (1848-1933). [1863-1866].
Lightfoot, Fleet Surgeon William Spencer (1853-1908). [1865-1870].
Lindsay, William Joseph (1871-1938). [1886-1887].
Litler-Jones, Thomas Caldwell (born 1873). [1888-1889].
Lodge, Samuel Durham (1893-1934). [1905-1910].
Long, Sydney Herbert (1870-1939). [1884-1888].
Lowdell, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles George Walton (1855-1945). [1870-1872].
Lowe, Walter George (1848-1934). [1862-1865].
Lucy, Sidney Herbert Reginald (1868-1950). [1878-1885].
Mackinlay, James Grosvenor (1843-1900). [1856-1860].
McClure, Walter St Clare (1881-1954). [1895-1900].
McCowen, Surgeon Commander Gerald Roche (1885- ? ). [1901-1903].
Mair, Ludovic William Darra (1866-1912). [1881-1883].
Mallam, Brigadier Roy Kyffin (1888- ? ). [1901-1905].
Manby, Edward Petronell (1864-1929). [1876-1880].
Manby, Frederick Edward (1844-1891). [1857-1861].
Marks, Charles Ferdinand (1852-1941). [1866-1867].
Marsden, Herbert Ellis (1891-1946). [1905-1907].
Maybury, Bernard Constable (1888-1953). [1901-1905].
Mayo, Herbert Reginald (1874-1940). [1888-1893].
Meadows, Colonel Sidney Manvers Woolner (1876-1958). [1888-1895].
Milligan, William Hubert (1892-1970). [1904-1909].
Moore, Colonel Edward James (1862-1925). [1875-1881].
Morris, Charles Woodham (1885-1968). [1901-1902].
Morris, Lieutenant-Colonel William Albert (1857-1936). [1867-1874].
Muriel, George John (1842-1923). [1856-1859].
Murray, Charles Stormont (1859-1937). [1876-1877].
Murray, Lieutenant-Colonel John Hanna (1873- ? ). [1885-1891].
Murray, Richard Galway (1873-1953). [1886-1892].
Neal, James (1866-1935). [1879-1882].
Neilson, Major William Henry (1854-1903). [1867-1867].
Neligan, George Ernest (1884-1956). [1898-1903].
Newth, Alfred Arthur Edmund (1887-1958). [1903-1906].
Orton, John (1869-1940). [1884-1888].
Osborn, Samuel (1848-1936). [1862-1864].
Owen, John Howard (1886- ? ). [1902-1903].
Parker, William Rushton (1853-1943). [1864-1871].
Parsons, Allan Chilcott (1873-1946). [1884-1892].
Parry, James Hales (1890-1947). [1903-1907].
Payne, George Speke (1848-1900). [1861-1865].
Popham, Robert Brooks (1862-1951). [1878-1878].
Prall, Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Esmond (1862-1934). [1873-1873].
Prowse, William Barrington (1870-1958). [1882-1882].
Purves, Robert Black (1872-1937). [1887-1891].
Rahilly, Lieutenant-Colonel John Maurice Bisdée (1880-1952). [1893-1899].
Ransom, Professor Frederick Parlett Fisher (1849-1937). [1861-1867].
Ranson, John Sturges (1890- ? ). [1904-1909].
Renshaw, Charles Jeremiah (1841-1916). [1855-1858].
Reynolds, Frank Neon (1895-1953). [1909-1911].
Reynolds, Colonel Leslie Lewis Clayton (1882-1974). [1894-1901].
Reynolds, Lewis William (1856-1935). [1870-1872].
Richardson, Professor Alfred (1884-1934). [1897-1903].
Robbs, Charles Edward (1859-1922). [1873-1878].
Roberts, Edward (1857-1937). [1869-1876].
Roberts, Ffrangcon (1888-1974). [1902-1907].
Robinson, Lieutenant-Colonel George Somerville (1857-1945). [1873-1874].
Rockwood, Colonel David Pratt (1873- ? ). [1889-1892].
Rudyard, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ashton (1866-1940). [1882-1883].
Rutherford, Hon. George James (1869-1948). [1883-1886].
Sandiland, Ernest Littleton (1881-1965). [1894-1900].
Sankey, Surgeon Rear Admiral Charles Fox Octavius (1885-1957). [1896-1903].
Scott, Evelyn Dennis (1888-1978). [1903-1906].
Semple, John Mervyn (1894- ? ). [1910-1912].
Sharp, Bryan Buckley (1896-1975). [1909-1914].
Sharples, Inspector General Charles William (1854-1937). [1867-1870].
Shaw, Harold Bailey (1858-1914). [1870-1877].
Simpson, Reginald Hugh (1891-1964). [1902-1909].
Smith, Edward Last (1856-1937). [1872-1872].
Smith, Percy Montague (1871-1961). [1887-1890].
Smyth, Brigadier Francis Gerald Augustus (1891-1942). [1903-1908].
Spong, Major Charles Stuart (1859-1925). [1870-1878].
Stanger, William (1845-1928). [1857-1859].
Steele, Russell (1847-1910) [1860-1865].
Stevens, Percy Richard (1858-1919). [1868-1869].
Strange, Ernest William (1879-1969). [1891-1897].
Taylor, Leonard Herbert (1885-1971). [1897-1904].
Taylor, Richard Stopford [later Stopford-Taylor] (1884-1964). [1897-1898].
Thomas, Benjamin (1895- ? ). [1910-1913].
Thyne, William (1867-1912). [1880-1883].
Ticehurst, Augustus Rowland (c.1844-1916). [1856-1857].
Tizard, Henry John (1865-1935). [1878-1882].
Travers, Frederick Thomas (1869-1959). [1880-1882].
Trotter, George James Elliot (1860-1946). [1875-1878].
Trubshaw, Kenneth Vincent (1876-1958). [1893-1895].
Turner, George Albert (1874-1916). [1887-1889].
Turton, James Richard Henry (1883-1977). [1896-1902].
Visick, Arthur Hedley Clarence (1897-1949). [1909-1915].
Vivian, Harold Sugden (1881-1954). [1895-1900].
Walker, Sydney Robert (1872-1945). [1887-1891].
Wall, Alfred John (1847-1898). [1861-1865].
Wallace, Frederick Herbert (1880- ? ). [1892-1898].
Ward, Espine Francis (1882-1946). [1893-1901].
Ward, George Edgar Septimus (1888-1968). [1901-1906].
Warren, Surgeon Rear Admiral Leonard (1880- ? ). [1894-1899].
Weekes, Henry Holman (1868-1951). [1884-1886].
Whitcombe, Philip Percival (1859-1932). [1874-1878].
Williams, Harry John Egerton Hutchins (1870-1933). [1882-1886].
Williams, Roger Lester (1896- ? ). [1908-1914].
Willmore, Colonel William Southwick (1872-1941). [1884-1888].
Wilson, David (1881- ? ). [1893-1901]
Winckworth, Colonel Harold Charles (1878-1947) [1890-1894]
Woods, William Henry Ogle (1875-1945) [1890-1894].
Worth, Reginald (1873-1954) [1889-1891].
Wright, Walter Southey (1862-1929) [1876-1878].
HERBERT GROVE LEE (1840-1909). M.D. (St Andrew’s), M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), L.S.A.
Herbert Grove Lee (1840-1909) [Epsom College 1855-1857. He was the first
prefect to be appointed at the College. Captain of Cricket XI] was the son of Richard
Lee, a surgeon, of Thame, Oxfordshire, brother of Dr Timothy Wood Lee [Epsom
College 1860-1863], and father of Dr Sidney Herbert Lee [Epsom College 18811883]. He received his medical training at St Andrew’s University, and was
subsequently appointed Dean of the Royal Manchester School of Medicine (now
Manchester University Medical School).
CHARLES JEREMIAH RENSHAW (1841-1916). M.D. (St Andrew’s),
M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A., F.F.P.S. (Glasgow).
Charles Jeremiah Renshaw (1841-1916) [Epsom College 1855-1858] was the
son of Jeremiah Renshaw, a surgeon of Altrincham, Cheshire, and brother of Dr
William Alfred Renshaw, M.D. [Epsom College 1855-1858]. He received his medical
training at St Andrew’s University, and the Manchester Medical School, and was
appointed Medical Officer of Health for Ashton-upon-Mersey U.D.C., Greater
Manchester. He was Vice-President of the Manchester Medical Society; VicePresident of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch of the British Medical Association;
and Vice-President at the Medical Congress, Moscow (1897), and the Medical
Congress, Paris (1900).
HENRY CLOTHIER (1842-1915). M.B., M.D. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), L.S.A.
Henry Clothier (1842-1915) [Epsom College 1855-1860] was the son of Henry
Clothier, a surgeon, of Haslemere, Surrey, brother of William James Clothier [Epsom
College 1855- but died in 1856 while at school], and father of Edward Hugh Clothier
[Epsom College 1891-1896], and John Keith Clothier [Epsom College 1893-1894].
He received his medical training at University College Hospital, where he won the
Gold Medal for medicine, the Fellowe’s Gold Medal and the Atkinson-Morley
Surgical Scholarship. He was appointed Resident Medical Officer at Bath General
Hospital, before his appointment as Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, North
London.
GEORGE JOHN MURIEL (1842-1923). M.R.C.S. (Eng.), J.P.
George John Muriel (1842-1923) [Epsom College 1856-1859] was the son of
John Muriel, J.P., D.L., a surgeon, of Palace Green, Ely. He received his medical
training at Guy’s Hospital, and was appointed Surgeon to the West Cumberland
Infirmary, Whitehaven, Cumbria. He was President of the Border Counties Branch of
the British Medical Association, and the first Chairman of the West Cumberland
Division of the B.M.A. He also served as a J.P. for Cumberland.
HENRY CASS (c. 1843-1899). F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Henry Cass (c. 1843-1899) [Epsom College 1856-1860] was the son of Dr
William Cass, of Cowes, Isle of Wight, and brother of Dr William Cunningham Cass
[Epsom College 1856-1856], and Dr Edward Earnshaw Cass [Epsom College 18561858]. He received his medical training at University College Hospital, and was
appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Sick Children, Chelsea
(1871-1874), London, and Surgeon to the Royal Pimlico Dispensary. He then entered
private practice with his brother at Ecclestone Square, Belgravia, London.
WILLIAM HOFFMEISTER (1843-1910). M.V.O., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), M.D. (Heidelberg). L.S.A.,
William Hoffmeister (1843-1910) [Epsom College 1856-1860. prefect. Captain
of Cricket XI] was the son of Sir W. C. Hoffmeister, M.D., F.R.C.S., of Cowes, Isle
of Wight, and brother of Dr John Bates Hoffmeister [Epsom College 1865-1868],
Charles Reginald Hoffmeister [1866-1866], and Dr George Bernard Hoffmeister,
M.D. [Epsom College 1873-1877]. He received his medical training at University
College Hospital and Heidelberg University. He was Surgeon Apothecary to H.M.
Queen Victoria and the Royal Family at Osborne, Isle of Wight, and Surgeon to the
Royal Yacht Squadron.
JAMES GROSVENOR MACKINLAY (1843-1900). F.R.C.S. (Edin.),
L.R.C.P. (Lond.).
James Grosvenor Mackinlay (1843-1900) [Epsom College 1856-1860] was the
son of Dr John Mackinlay, of Isleworth, Middlesex, and brother of John Mackinlay
[Epsom College 1858-1862]. He received his medical training at Charing Cross
Hospital. He initially entered general practice but, in 1876 was appointed Surgeon to
the Western Ophthalmic Hospital. In 1879, he was appointed Surgeon to the Royal
Eye Hospital and, in 1881 he became Senior Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Royal Free
Hospital. He was previously Resident Medical officer at Charing Cross Hospital, and
an original Fellow and Member of Council of the Ophthalmological Society.
MERVYN HENRY COATES (born 1844). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Mervyn Henry Coates (born 1844) [Epsom College 1856-1856] was the son of
W. M. Coates, a surgeon of Salisbury, Wiltshire, and brother of Edward Martin
Coates [Epsom College 1856-1856], and Alfred Coates [Epsom College 1856-1856].
He received his medical training at University College Hospital, and was appointed
Senior Surgeon at the Salisbury Infirmary, Wiltshire, and Honorary Surgeon to the
Nurses’ Diocesan Home. He was elected President of the Southern Branch of the
British Medical Association.
FREDERICK EDWARD MANBY (1844-1891). M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.,
F.R.C.S. (Eng.), J.P.
Frederick Edward Manby (1844-1900) [Epsom College 1857-1861. Cricket XI]
was the son of Frederick Manby, surgeon, of East Rudham, Norfolk, brother of Sir
Alan Reeve Manby, K.C.V.O., M.D., F.R.C.S., Physician Extraordinary to King
George V [Epsom College 1859-1864], John Henry Manby [Epsom College 18641867], William Frederick Manby [Epsom College 1864-1867], Dr Herbert Lynsey
Manby [Epsom College 1866-1872], and Dr Edward Petronell Manby, M.D. [Epsom
College 1876-1880]. He received his medical training at Guy’s Hospital and was
appointed Surgeon to the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital. He also
served as Medical Officer of Health for Cannock R.D.C. and Wolverhampton
Borough, and Surgeon Major in the South Staffordshire Regiment. Edward Manby
was the Mayor, and an Alderman of Wolverhampton, a J.P. for Wolverhampton, and a
Member of the Council of the Birmingham and Midland Counties Branch of the
British Medical Association (1874-1883). He founded the Wolverhampton Branch of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and assisted in the formation of
the Wolverhampton Nursing Institution as a Jubilee Memorial.
AUGUSTUS ROWLAND TICEHURST (c. 1844-1916). V.D., L.S.A.,
M.R.C.S. (Eng.), J.P.
Augustus Rowland Ticehurst (c. 1844-1916) [Epsom College 1856-1857] was the
son of Frederick Ticehurst, J.P., surgeon, of Hastings, Sussex, and brother of Robert
Ticehurst [Epsom College 1856-1857], and Edward Ticehurst [Epsom College 18561857]. He received his medical training at Guy’s Hospital, after which he was
appointed Prosector in Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was the Senior
Surgeon at the East Sussex, Hastings and St Leonard’s Hospital, East Sussex,
Consulting Surgeon to the Home for Invalid Gentlewomen, and Consulting Surgeon
at the Children’s Home, St Leonard’s, Sussex. He served as a J.P. for the County of
Kent.
AUGUSTUS HENRY COLLET (1844-1909). B.A. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S.
(Eng.), L.S.A.
Augustus Henry Collet (1844-1909) [Epsom College 1855-1860. prefect. Sterry
Prize] was the son of Dr H. J. Collet of Worthing, Sussex, and brother of Arthur Lane
Collet [Epsom College 1870-1874]. He received his medical training at Pembroke
College, Cambridge, where he gained a Rowing Blue, and Guy’s Hospital. He was
appointed Senior Surgeon at Worthing Hospital, Sussex.
FREDERICK HARRY HAYNES (1845-1935). M.B., M.D. (Lond.),
M.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.), J.P.
Frederick Harry Haynes (1845-1935) [Epsom College 1856-1860. Brande and
Bentley Prizes] was the son of J. B. Haynes, F.R.C.S., surgeon, of Evesham,
Worcestershire, and brother of Ernest Augustus Haynes [Epsom College 1863-1865],
Dr Percy Octavius Haynes [Epsom College 1866-1868], and Dr Sydney Walter
Haynes, M.D. [Epsom College 1868-1876]. He received his medical training at St
Bartholomew’s Hospital, graduating M.B. with Honours and winning the Bentley
Prize. He was initially appointed Senior Physician at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford,
but he later removed to Warwickshire where he was appointed Consultant Physician
at Leamington. He served as a J.P. for Warwick.
WILLIAM STANGER (1845-1928). F.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A., J.P.
William Stanger (1845-1928) [Epsom College 1857-1859] was the son of G. E.
Stanger, surgeon, of Nottingham. He received his medical training at Guy’s Hospital.
He was Honorary Surgeon to the Clayton Hospital, Wakefield, and Chief Medical
Officer for the Great Northern and Great Central Railways. He was elected President
of the Yorkshire Branch of the British Medical Association, and served as a Member
of Council of the Yorkshire Branch of the British Medical Association. He was a J.P.
for Wakefield.
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM CASS (c. 1846-1919). M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.
William Cunningham Cass (c. 1846-1919) [Epsom College 1856-1856] was the
son of Dr William Cass, of Cowes, Isle of Wight, and brother of Henry Cass, F.R.C.S.
[Epsom College 1856-1860], and Dr Edward Earnshaw Cass [Epsom College 18561858]. He received his medical training at University College Hospital, after which he
entered practice at Ecclestone Square, Belgravia, London, combining this with his
appointment as Senior Medical Officer at the Royal Pimlico Dispensary, and Surgeon
to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea, London.
WILLIAM LEIGH (? 18-- - 1895). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
William Leigh ( ? 18-- - 1895) [Epsom College 1858-1859] was the son of H. T.
Leigh, F.R.C.S., surgeon, of Chiswick, West London, and brother of Robert Leigh
[Epsom College 1857-1862]. He received his medical training at St George’s
Hospital, where he was appointed as an Anaesthetist.
TIMOTHY WOOD LEE (1846-1920). M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.
Timothy Wood Lee (1846-1920) [Epsom College 1860-1863] was the son of
Richard Lee, surgeon, of Thame, Oxfordshire, and brother of Dr Herbert Grove Lee,
Dean of the Manchester Medical School [Epsom College 1855-1857]. He received his
medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and then emigrated to Australia,
becoming a Government Medical officer at Wollongong, New South Wales, where he
was appointed Surgeon to the Albert Memorial Hospital. He was also Government
Medical Officer and Medical Referee for the Commonwealth.
EDWARD JACKSON (1846-1924). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Edward Jackson (1846-1924) [Epsom College 1858-1863] was the son of Dr T.
H. Jackson of Darlington, County Durham, and brother of Charles Hays Jackson
[Epsom College 1861-1867]. He received his medical training at St George’s Hospital
and Durham University, after which he was appointed Prosector of Anatomy at the
Royal College of Surgeons. He was then appointed Surgeon to Darlington Hospital
and the Darlington Children’s Hospital, County Durham. He was an Honorary
Associate of the order of St. John of Jerusalem.
ALFRED JOHN WALL (1847-1898). I.M.S., M.B., B.S., M.D. (Lond.),
L.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Alfred John Wall (1847-1898) [Epsom College 1861-1865. Engledue Essay
Prize] was the son of J. P. Wall, surgeon, of Mount Street, Mayfair, London. He won
an Open Scholarship to St Mary’s Hospital and a second Scholarship in Anatomy.
Following medical qualification, was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy, and
subsequently Resident Medical Officer (1870). He then travelled extensively,
studying pathology in Budapest, Berlin and Paris, before joining the Indian Medical
Service in 1874, as Resident Medical Officer at Bhangulpore, and Surgeon to the
Bengal Army. In 1875, he was appointed Deputy Professor of Anatomy at Calcutta
and membership of the Snake Poison Commission. He was responsible for the greater
part of the Commission’s practical work, publishing his monograph, Indian Snake
Poison in 1883. He was thereafter acknowledged as one of the leading world experts
on this subject. He then studied cholera, following successive European outbreaks,
and rendered such distinguished service in Italy and Sicily, that one municipality
presented him with its freedom and an address as a token of recognition. His life was
ended by his own hand in 1898, after evidence of serious mental disease. As one
colleague wrote: “He was extremely well informed in every subject of art, science and
literature – the best possible of companions. He talked German, French and Italian
fluently.”
RUSSELL STEELE (1847-1910). M.D. (Durham), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
L.M. (Edin.).
Russell Steele (1847-1910) [Epsom College 1860-1865] was the son of J. S.
Steele, surgeon, of Reigate, Surrey. He received his medical education at University
College Hospital and Newcastle University. During the First World War he served in
the R.A.M.C., in France and at Salonika. He then went into general practice in
Devizes, and later in Regent’s Park, London. After a period in general practice he was
appointed Senior Surgeon at the West Herts Infirmary, Hemel Hempstead. He was
also a Commissioner of the St John Ambulance Brigade for Central London; a Knight
of the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem; a Freeman of the City of London, and
a Yeoman of the Society of Apothecaries.
JOHN WILLIAM LEY (1848-1933). F.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.
John William Ley (1848-1933) [Epsom College 1863-1866] was the son of
Richard Ley, surgeon, of North Molton, Devon, and brother of Dr Henry James Ley,
O.B.E. [Epsom College 1873-1877]. He received his medical training at the London
Hospital where he was later appointed Clinical Assistant in the Department of
Surgery. He was then appointed Resident Surgeon at Poplar Hospital, East London,
before his definitive appointment as Medical Superintendent and Surgeon to Newton
Abbot Hospital, Devon.
GEORGE SPEKE PAYNE (1848-1900). M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.
George Speke Payne (1848-1900) [Epsom College 1861-1865] was the son of G.
S. Payne, surgeon, of Chase Side, Enfield, Greater London. He received his medical
training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. After qualification, he emigrated to New
Zealand where he was employed as a surgeon. He then returned to England and was
appointed Consultant Surgeon at Peterborough Infirmary, Cambridgeshire, as well as
Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the 1st Northamptonshire R.V.
WALTER GEORGE LOWE (1848-1934). V.D., M.B., M.D. (Lond.),
L.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), J.P.
Walter George Lowe (1848-1934) [Epsom College 1862-1865. prefect. Rugby
XV] was the son of George Lowe, surgeon, of Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and
brother of Dr Charles Henry Lowe [Epsom College 1862-1866]. He received his
medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was later appointed Consultant
Surgeon at Burton-on-Trent Infirmary. He was President of the Staffordshire Branch
of the British Medical Association (1886, and in 1909), and President of the Midland
Medical Society (1898-1899). Surgeon-Colonel, 2nd North Staffordshire Volunteer
Regiment. He was a Magistrate and J.P. for Burton-on-Trent.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GEORGE BLEECK BUTLER
[afterwards FASKALLY] (1848-1912). L.S.A., F.R.C.S. (Edin.).
George Bleeck Butler (1848-1912) [Epsom College 1860-1864] was the son of
Jacobus Butler, a surgeon, of Woodbury, Devon. He received his medical training at
St Bartholomew’s Hospital. During the South Africa War he served as a LieutenantColonel in the Cape Medical Corps, King William’s Town, Cape Colony, and was
Principal Medical Officer to the Cape Colony Forces. He took part in the Siege of
Wepener, Free State, South Africa (1900) and was awarded the Medal and Clasps. He
was mentioned in dispatches.
SAMUEL OSBORN (1848-1936). M.R.C.S., (Eng.), L.S.A., F.R.C.S. (Eng.),
J.P., D.L.
Samuel Osborne (1848-1936) [Epsom College 1862-1864] was the son of
Samuel Osborne, surgeon, of Brixton, South London. He received his medical
training at St Thomas’s Hospital. He served as a Red Cross Surgeon in the GrecoTurkish War (1897), and at the start of the South African War, in 1899, went out with
Lord Methuen’s column. Among a number of foreign orders which he was awarded
was the Officier de l’Ordre Royal du Sauveur (Greece). He was then appointed Chief
Surgeon at the Van Allen American Field Hospital (1900) and was mentioned in
dispatches. On returning to England he was appointed Chief Surgeon to the
Metropolitan Corps of the St John Ambulance Brigade, and received the Long Service
Medal, the Jubilee Medal with clasp, and the Coronation Medals of 1902 and 1911.
He was a Knight of Grace, Order of St John, and an Honorary Member of the
Japanese Red Cross Society. For seven years he was Master of the Worshipful Society
of Apothecaries (1924-1931) and a representative of the Society on the General
Medical Council (1924-1931). He was one of Her Majesty’s Lieutenants for the City
of London and a J.P. for Buckinghamshire.
THOMAS EASTES (1849-1928). M.B., M.D. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.
Thomas Eastes (1849-1928) [Epsom College 1862-1867. prefect. Gilchrist
Scholarship] was the son of Sylvester Eastes, surgeon, of Folkestone, Kent, and
brother of James Smith Eastes [Epsom College 1860-1865]. He received his medical
training at Guy’s Hospital, graduating M.B. with First Class Honours, and in the
University of London M.D. Examination he was awarded the Gold Medal. He joined
his father’s practice and was also appointed Consultant Surgeon and Radiologist to
the Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone, Kent, and was elected President of the
South-Eastern Branch of the British Medical Association. He had more than a local
reputation and might have been appointed Obstetric Physician at Guy’s Hospital if he
had not joined his father’s practice. “For many years he found time for wide reading,
and being of regular habits he devoted one hour daily to general literature and a
second hour to recent advances in medicine, surgery and midwifery. He was correct
and precise to a fault. So long as he was in practice he retained his carriage – although
a motor-car would have saved him much time – not because he preferred it, but
because he was unwilling to discharge his faithful coachman who had been in his
service for so many years.”
PROFESSOR FREDERICK PARLETT FISHER RANSOM (18491937). M.D. C.M. (Edin.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Frederick Parlett Fisher Ransom (1849-1937) [Epsom College 1861-1867] was
the son of P. P. Ransom, surgeon, of North Elmham, Norfolk, and brother of Herbert
Charles Ransom [Epsom College 1867-1872], and Edward Ernest Ransom [Epsom
College 1868-1873]. He received his medical training at King’s College, London, and
Edinburgh University. From Edinburgh, Frederick Ransom travelled to Germany
where he was for a time assistant to Professor Emil von Behring at Halle and
Professor Hans Meyer at Marburg. On his return to London he was appointed
Lecturer in Pharmacology and Senior Pharmacologist at the London School of
Medicine for Women [now the Royal Free Hospital]. He then received the
appointment of Professor of Pharmacology, University of London. During the First
World War, Professor Ransom served on the War Office Tetanus Committee and
published an important paper summarising modern views on the disease. He did much
original research on tetanus and also on bronchodilator nerves. When the British
Medical Association held its annual meeting at Cambridge in 1920, he was elected
Vice President of the Section of Physiology and Pharmacology.
ELPHINSTONE HOLLIS (1850-1932). M.B., C.M., M.D. (Edin.),
Elphinstone Hollis (1850-1932) [Epsom College 1864-1868] was the son of Dr
C. W. Hollis of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and brother of Dr Alfred Hollis [Epsom
College 1856-1857]. He was Honorary Physician and Surgeon to the East Suffolk and
Ipswich Hospital, and previously Surgeon to the Leckforde Hospital, Alton,
Hampshire, and Physician at the Royal Infirmary, and Resident Surgeon at Chalmer’s
Hospital, Edinburgh. He was also Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator,
Woodbridge, Suffolk, and a Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.
THOMAS GUNTON ALDERTON (1850-1920). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Thomas Gunton Alderton (1850-1920) [Epsom College 1865-1869] was the son
of Thomas Alderton, surgeon, of Reepham, Norfolk, and brother of Frederick Fisher
Alderton [Epsom College 1865-1871]. He won an Entrance Scholarship to St.
Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was later appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at the West
London Hospital. He was a Member of the Council of the Medical Defence Union,
and Treasurer of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society.
NORMAN BRUCE ELLIOT (1851-1904). L.R.C.P. (Eng.), L.S.A., M.D.
(Durham), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Cantab.).
Norman Bruce Elliot (1851-1904) [Epsom College 1861-1862] was the son of
Dr Robert Elliot of Denmark Hill. He received his medical education at Guy’s
Hospital, and was appointed Surgeon to the Camberwell Provident Dispensary, and
Physician to the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart. He was also a Barristerat-law of the Middle Temple.
HENRY BEALE COLLINS (1851-1918). M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.
Henry Beale Collins (1851-1918) [Epsom College 1866-1869] was the son of J.
S. Collins, surgeon, of Newnham, Gloucestershire, and brother of John Stratford
Collins [Epsom College 1863-1865], and Fernando Stratford Collins, J.P. [Epsom
College 1863-1867]. He received his medical training at King’s College Hospital.
Following qualification, Henry Collins joined the Royal Navy as Assistant Instructor
in Naval Hygiene at Haslar. He served on the Perak Expedition in 1875, taking charge
of a Naval Hospital, and later served on H.M.S. Cockatrice at Glatz (1878-1890).
After retiring from the navy he devoted himself to public health and was appointed
Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. He was twice President
of the Home Counties Branch of the Incorporated Society of Medical Officers of
Health, and a member of Council of the Institute of Public Health.
RICHARD HENRY GRIMBLY (1852-1918). M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.
Richard Henry Grimbly (1852-1918) [Epsom College 1864-1868] was the son
of Richard Grimbly, surgeon, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, and brother of Albert Ernest
Grimbly [Epsom College 1864-1867]. He received his medical training at St
Thomas’s Hospital, and was subsequently appointed Surgeon to the Newton Abbot
Hospital, Devon, and Medical Officer of Health for the Newton Abbot District Union.
ERNEST HOOK BUCKELL (1852-1919). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
L.S.A., J.P.
Ernest Hook Buckell (1852-1919) [Epsom College 1865-1869] was the son of
Dr Leonard Buckell of Chichester, Sussex. He received his medical training at
University College Hospital, and was subsequently appointed Senior Consultant
Physician at the Royal West Sussex Hospital, Chichester. During his time there he
founded the hospital X-ray Department. In 1919, he was elected President of the
Chichester and Worthing Branch of the British Medical Association (1919), as well as
a Member of the Chichester City Council. He served as a J.P. for Chichester.
CHARLES FERDINAND MARKS (1852-1941). M.D. (Galway), F.R.C.S.
(Eng.), L.M.R.C.P.I., J.P.
Charles Ferdinand Marks (1852-1941) [Epsom College 1866-1867] was the son
of Dr A. H. Marks of Dublin. He received his medical training at Queen’s University,
Galway. After general practice in Ireland, New Zealand and England, Charles Marks
emigrated to Queensland, Australia (1879), where he was appointed Surgeon to the
Royal Brisbane and Lady Bowen Hospitals. From 1882-1894 he was a member of the
Central Board of Health, and from 1882-1912 he was a member of the Queensland
Medical Board, being elected President from 1910-1912. He was President of the
Queensland Branch of the British Medical Association in 1897, and a J.P. for
Queensland. During the First World War he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Queensland Defence Force and Commandant of the 6th Australian General Hospital,
Brisbane. From 1888-1922 he was a member of the Legislative Council. In 1927 he
became a Foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. “He had
a fine sense of humour and was beloved by patients even though his word was law.
Fond of old and new devices, he was among the first to own a motor car and
refrigerator, and often tinkered with his crystal radio.”
WILLIAM RUSHTON PARKER (1853-1943). M.A., M.D. (Cantab.),
M.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.L.S., F.Z.S.
William Rushton Parker (1853-1943) [Epsom College 1864-1871. prefect.
Brande, Engledue Essay and Martin Prizes. Forest Exhibition. Gilchrist Scholarship
and Propert Medal, Senior School scholarship] was the son of Edward Parker,
surgeon, of Liverpool, and brother of the Rev. Henry Martyn Parker [Epsom College
1864-1868]. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge as a Senior Scholar,
and won the Gold Medal for Chemistry, the Silver medal in Physiology, as well as the
Silver Medal in Botany of Apothecaries Hall. He was the Resident Medical Officer at
the Fever Hospital, Liverpool before his appointment as Surgeon to the Kendal
Providence Dispensary.
HERBERT FREDERICK CHAPMAN (1853-1942). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.).
Herbert Frederick Chapman (1853-1942) [Epsom College 1868-1872] was the
son of Frederick Chapman, surgeon, of Richmond Green, Surrey, and brother of
Ernest Edward Chapman [Epsom College 1869-1873], Frank Chapman [Epsom
College 1871-1876], and Robert Hugh Chapman [Epsom College 1875-1879]. He
received his medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital where he won the
Jeaffreson Exhibition. He was Consultant Surgeon to the Royal Hospital, Richmond,
Greater London.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL FREDERICK ROWLAND BARKER
(1853-1921). M.B.E., R.A.M.C., M.B. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A., D.P.H.
(Cantab.).
Frederick Rowland Barker (1853-1921) [Epsom College 1868-1872. Rugby
XV] was the son of Dr E. J. Barker of Aldershot, Hampshire. He received his medical
training at St Thomas’s Hospital. While still a medical student he joined the British
Red Cross Contingent with the Turkish Forces in the Turco-Russian War (18771878). He later joined the R.A.M.C. as a Surgeon in the Boer War, winning the
Osmanli War Medal (4th class) and Order of Medijie, before being posted to India and
the West Indies. He was a member of the Stafford House Committee in the Turco-
Russian War. During World War One he raised and equipped three detachments of
the Red Cross for which he was awarded the M.B.E.
FREDERICK HEALES CARTER (1853-1942). M.D. (Durham), F.R.C.S.
(Eng.), L.S.A.
Frederick Heales Carter (1853-1942) [Epsom College 1868-1871. prefect.
Cricket XI. Sterry Prize]. He was the son of C. H. Carter, surgeon, of Pewsey,
Wiltshire. He received his medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital where he
won the Jeaffreson Exhibition. He was appointed Surgeon to Wandsworth Prison.
FLEET SURGEON WILLIAM SPENCER LIGHTFOOT (1853-1908).
R.N., M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.
William Spencer Lightfoot (1853-1908) [Epsom College 1865-1870] was the
son of William Lightfoot, surgeon, of Harwell, Berkshire, and brother of Henry
Fletcher Lightfoot [Epsom College 1868-1871], and John Frederick Lightfoot [Epsom
College 1870-1873]. He received his medical training at St Thomas’s Hospital. After
qualification he joined the Royal Navy and served as Fleet Surgeon, and Deputy
Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets (from 1904). During the Turco-Russian
War (1877-1878) he was a surgeon with the British National Aid Society and the
surgeon on H.M.S. Decoy at the bombardment of the Alexandria Forts (1882),
receiving the medal with clasp and the Khedive’s bronze star. He later served in
operations in the Eastern Sudan (1884), receiving an additional clasp.
INSPECTOR-GENERAL CHARLES WILLIAM SHARPLES (18541937). R.N., L.R.C.S. (Edin.), L.S.A.
Charles William Sharples (1854-1937). [Epsom College 1867-1870] was the son
of T. H. Sharples, surgeon of Tamworth, Staffordshire, and brother of Robert Henry
Sharples [Epsom College 1862-1869]. He received his medical education at the
Middlesex Hospital, and after qualification joined the Royal Navy and was appointed
successively Fleet Surgeon on H.M.S. St Vincent, Portsmouth (1897); Medical
Officer-in-Charge of Ascension Island 1899-1902; Deputy Surgeon General, Royal
Navy, and Inspector General, Royal Navy.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES GEORGE WALTON
LOWDELL (1855-1945). D.S.O., I.M.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Charles George Walton Lowdell (1855-1945) [Epsom College 1870-1872] was
the son of Charles Lowdell, surgeon of Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He received his
medical education at Guy’s Hospital, and served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian
Medical Service, Bombay.
THOMAS WARBERTON FULLER (1855-1883). M.B. (Lond.), M.R.C.S.
(Eng.), L.S.A.
Thomas Warberton Fuller (1855-1883) [Epsom College 1864-1870] was the
son of Dr Thomas Fuller of Shoreham, Sussex. He received his medical education at
Guy’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Physician at Brighton. He died at the
early age of 28 years.
EDWARD LAST SMITH (1856-1937). L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.M., J.P.
Edward Last Smith (1856-1937) [Epsom College 1872-1872] was the son of
George Smith, surgeon of Kilburn, London. He received his medical education at
Charing Cross Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Physician at Torbay Hospital,
Devon, and Surgeon to the Torquay Surgical Aid Society. He also served as a Medical
referee to a number of Assurance Companies. During the First World War he served
as Commandant for Munitions, Torquay. He was a J.P. for the County of Devon.
LEWIS WILLIAM REYNOLDS (1856-1935). M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.,
M.R.C.P. (Lond.), J.P.
Lewis William Reynolds (1856-1935) [Epsom College 1870-1872] was the son
of William Reynolds, surgeon of Wellington, Somerset, and brother of Arthur Henry
Reynolds [Epsom College 1874-1877], Charles Edward Reynolds [Epsom College
1874-1878], Ernest Reynolds [Epsom College 1876-1879], and Lieutenant-Colonel
Eric William Reynolds [Epsom College 1900-1902]. He received his medical
education at Guy’s Hospital and after qualification served as a Civil Surgeon, A.M.D.
in South Africa (1878-1879), taking part in the Battle of Ulundi, for which he was
awarded the South Africa Medal and Clasp. After the South African War he was
appointed Medical Officer of Health for High Wycombe, and Surgeon at High
Wycombe General Hospital. He also served as a J.P. for the County of
Buckinghamshire. During his time in South Africa Lewis Reynolds kept a detailed
record of his experiences and the events taking place around him. His diaries were
published in 2002, under the title A Civil Surgeon – Serving with the British Army in
the Anglo-Zulu War. His narrative makes interesting reading. At the conclusion of the
Battle of Ulundi he writes: “After this we advanced and burnt Ulundi & also 6 or 7
large military kraals, and then returned to our camp on Umvolosi River. 2 volunteers
who were killed yesterday were buried. Beresford was the first into Ulundi, galloping
up with three others & jumping the fence, hat in hand. The column returned in great
spirit, bands playing – colours flying, kraals burning all around…..20,000 Zulus are
supposed to have been in action, having against them about 4,000 European troops.”
EDWARD ROBERTS (1857-1937). M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A., J.P.
Edward Roberts (1857-1937) [Epsom College 1869-1876. Brande Prize] was
the son of Jacob Roberts, surgeon, of Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. He received his
medical education at Guy’s Hospital. He was later appointed Consultant Surgeon at
the Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester. In 1905 he was elected High Sheriff of
Cardigan, and sat as a J.P. for the County of Cardigan.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM ALBERT MORRIS (18571936). R.A.M.C., L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. (Edin.), L.M., L.S.A., A.K.C.
William Albert Morris (1857-1936) [Epsom College 1867-1874] was the son of
J. A. Morris, surgeon of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. He received his medical education
at King’s College Hospital. After qualification, he joined the R.A.M.C. and rose to the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was later appointed Assistant County Director of the
British Red Cross for the North Riding of Yorkshire, and Deputy Commissioner,
Ministry of Pensions for Wales. He was the editor of Sir T. Longmore’s Manual of
Ambulance Transport.
PATRICK EDWARD CAMPBELL (1857-1927). M.B., C.M. (Edin.).
Patrick Edward Campbell (1857-1827) [Epsom College 1871-1873] was the
son of Dr John Campbell of Knaphill, Woking, Surrey, brother of Dr John James
Williamson Campbell [Epsom College 1875-1880], and father of Ian Campbell
[Epsom College 1919-1925]. He received his medical education at Edinburgh and
Glasgow Universities, and was later appointed Medical Superintendent of the
Metropolitan District Asylum, Caterham, Surrey. He was a Member of the Medical
Psychological Association. [Patrick Campbell’s predecessor as Medical
Superintendent at Caterham – Dr John Langdon Down - first described Down’s
Syndrome after examining patients at Caterham Asylum].
ALFRED NAPIER GODBY GIBBS (1857-1933). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), L.S.A.
Alfred Napier Godby Gibbs (1857-1933) [Epsom College 1870-1874. prefect]
was the son of Dr J. H. Gibbs of Topsham, near Exeter, Devon, and of Westbury,
Wiltshire. He received his medical education at Bristol and St Thomas’s Hospital and
was later appointed Consultant Surgeon at the Bristol Eye Hospital, and Surgeon to
the Bristol Children’s Hospital.
SURGEON LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GEORGE SOMERVILLE
ROBINSON (1857-1945). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
George Somerville Robinson (1857-1945) [Epsom College 1873-1874] was the
son of Surgeon Major Frederick Robinson. He received his medical education at St
George’s Hospital and after qualification joined the Scots Guards as a Surgeon
Lieutenant-Colonel. After serving in South Africa he was appointed Medical Officer
in Charge of Troops at Eastbourne.
WILLIAM THOMAS MARSTON CLARK (1857-1910). M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Lond.).
William Thomas Marston Clark (1857-1910) [Epsom College 1869-1874.
prefect. Junior Scholarship] was the son of Alfred Clark, surgeon, of Twickenham,
Middlesex. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and was
later appointed Surgeon to St John’s Hospital Twickenham, and Medical Officer of
Health for Twickenham. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health.
ARTHUR CUTFIELD (1857-1916). M.A. (Cantab.), B.Sc. (Lond.),
M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.
Arthur Cutfield (1857-1916) [Epsom College 1868-1876. head prefect. Brande
Essay, Watts Science, Propert, Martin and Engledue Essay Prizes. Forest Exhibition.
Gilchrist Scholarship] was the son of A. B. Cutfield, surgeon, of Tottenham and of
Deal, Kent, and father of Alfred Ralph Cutfield [Epsom College 1908-1910], and
Hugh Edward Cutfield [Epsom College 1911-1918]. He received his medical
education at Christ College, Cambridge, where he gained 1st Class Honours in the
Natural Science Tripos, before completing his clinical training at St Bartholomew’s
Hospital. He then emigrated to Queensland, Australia, where he served as a
Government Medical Officer at Mackay, before returning to Britain where he was
appointed Medical Officer of Health for Ross, and Surgeon to Ross Hospital.
SYDNEY WALTER HAYNES (1858-1946). M.B., C.M., M.D. (Edin.),
Sydney Walter Haynes (1858-1946) [Epsom College 1868-1876] was the son of
J. B. Haynes, F.R.C.S., surgeon, of Evesham, Worcestershire, and brother of Ernest
Augustus Haynes [Epsom College 1863-1865]. He received his medical education at
Charing Cross Hospital and Edinburgh University. He was Senior Consultant
Anaesthetist at Birmingham General Hospital, Birmingham Dental Hospital and the
Birmingham Eye Hospital.
PERCY RICHARD STEVENS (1858-1919). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Percy Richard Stevens (1858-1919) [Epsom College 1868-1869] was the son of
C. P. Stevens, F.R.C.S., surgeon, of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, and father of Gerald
Vickers Stevens [Epsom College 1916-1919], and Arthur Clarence Stevens [Epsom
College 1919-1919]. He received his medical education at St George’s Hospital, and
was appointed Surgeon to the Braintree and Bocking Hospital, Essex, and Medical
Officer of Health for Braintree Urban District.
HAROLD BAILEY SHAW (1858-1914). B.A., M.B., B.Ch. (Cantab.),
D.P.H. (Eng.).
Harold Bailey Shaw (1858-1914) [Epsom College 1870-1877. Rugby XV.
Cricket XI. Propert Prize] was the son of William Shaw, F.R.C.S., surgeon, of
Hampstead, London. He won a Senior Natural Science Scholarship to Sidney Sussex
College, Cambridge, where he took First Class Honours in the Natural Science
Tripos. At Charing Cross Hospital, where he received his medical training, he was
awarded a Clothworkers Scholarship, and following qualification, was appointed
Demonstrator in Physiology, and Teacher of Physics and Organic Chemistry. For a
short period he was Medical Officer to the Small-pox Camp at Darenth, Kent, then
Senior Assistant Medical officer at the Hampshire County Asylum, before his
appointment as Medical Superintendent of the County Asylum, Newport, Isle of
Wight.
GEORGE BERNARD HOFFMEISTER (1858-1891). B.Sc. (Lond.),
M.A., M.D. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.).
George Bernard Hoffmeister (1858-1891) [Epsom College 1873-1877. Rugby
XV. MacFarlane Cup. Sterry, Brande Essay, Martin and Propert Prizes. Forest
Exhibition. Gilchrist Scholarship] was the son of Sir W. C. Hoffmeister, M.D.,
F.R.C.S., of Cowes, Isle of Wight, and brother of William Hoffmeister, M.V.O., M.D.
[Epsom College 1856-1860], John Bates Hoffmeister [Epsom College 1865-1868],
and Charles Reginald Hoffmeister [Epsom College 1866-1866]. He was a Scholar and
First Prizeman of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and, in the B.A.
Examination obtained First Class Honours with special distinction. He was then
awarded the Gold Medal in Medical Botany of the Apothecaries’ Society. Further
awards included the Shuttleworth Scholarship, University of Cambridge, and the
Gilchrist Scholarship, University of London. George Hoffmeister was awarded an
Entrance Scholarship to St Bartholomew’s Hospital and then continued his medical
education in the Universities of Bonn and Vienna. From 1881-1884 he was an
assistant master at Epsom College, but later returned to the Isle of Wight where he
served as Surgeon to H.M. Queen Victoria and the Royal Family at Osborne. He was
a noted athlete who won the 100 and 440 yards at the Intervarsity Athletics Match.
Unfortunately he died at the early age of 32, being thrown from his horse and
suffering a cerebral haemorrhage.
COLONEL EDWARD RUSSELL CREE (1858-1923). R.A.M.C.,
M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.
Edward Russell Cree (1858-1923) [Epsom College 1868-1870] was the son of
E. H. Cree, a surgeon in the Royal Navy, and brother of Dr William Edward Cree,
M.D. [Epsom College 1866-1870]. He received his medical education at the
Middlesex Hospital and then joined the R.A.M.C. as a surgeon in 1880, before being
promoted to the rank of Colonel in 1900, and serving in West Africa, Egypt, India,
South Africa and Malta. In 1885, he took part in the Sudan Expedition and was
awarded the Medal with clasps. He won a Bronze star in South Africa (1899-1900)
and took part in the Relief of Ladysmith, Spion Kop and other operations in the
Transvaal and Cape Colony. He also gained the Queen’s Medal with six clasps, the
King’s Medal with two clasps, and was mentioned in dispatches twice. Russell Cree
was then appointed Principal Medical Officer for the No.1 General Hospital, Cape
Town.
ARTHUR GRAYLING (1858-1949). M.B. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.).
Arthur Grayling (1858-1949) [Epsom College 1869-1876] was the son of Dr
George Grayling of Forest Hill, South London, and brother of George Grayling
[Epsom College 1868-1870]. He received his medical training at St George’s Hospital
and was later appointed Senior Physician to Sydenham Children’s Hospital, and
Senior Medical Officer at the Forest Hill Dispensary.
MAJOR CHARLES STUART SPONG (1859-1925). D.S.O., R.A.M.C.,
B.Sc. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A.
Charles Stuart Spong (1859-1925) [Epsom College 1871-1878] was the son of
W. S. Spong, F.R.C.S., surgeon, of Faversham, Kent, and brother of Dr William
Spong [Epsom College 1869-1874]. He received his medical training at Guy’s
Hospital and was later appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. During the
First World War he served as a Major in the R.A.M.C., and was seconded for service
with the Egyptian Army. He was at one time medical adviser to the Egyptian State
Railways. Before this, he had served at Dongola (1899), on the Nile (1897-1898), and
in the Sudan (1897), and was awarded the Medjidieh Order. He was mentioned in
dispatches four times, was awarded the D.S.O., and was appointed later as Surgeon to
the Seaman’s Hospital, Greenwich.
CHARLES STORMONT MURRAY (1859-1937). L.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.M.
(Edin.), L.S.A.
Charles Stormont Murray (1859-1937) [Epsom College 1876-1877. Rugby XV.
Cricket XI] was the son of Dr G. C. P. Murray of Great Cumberland Place, London.
He received his medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Edinburgh University
and Trinity College, Dublin. His appointments included Consultant Anaesthetist at the
Samaritan Hospital, and Honorary Surgeon for the Home for Consumptive Females,
London.
FRANCIS ROBERT BRYANT BISSHOPP (1859-1946). M.A., M.D.
(Cantab.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Francis Robert Bryant Bisshopp (1859-1946) [Epsom College 1871-1872] was
the son of Dr James Bisshopp of Wimbledon and Tunbridge Wells, and brother of the
Rev. Hammond Butler Bisshopp [Epsom College 1871-1872]. At King’s College,
Cambridge he took 1st Class Honours in the Natural Science Tripos. He then
completed his medical training at Guy’s Hospital and was later appointed Senior
Prosector and Demonstrator in Anatomy at Cambridge. Following this, he was
appointed Senior Consultant Physician to the Tonbridge Infirmary and the Tunbridge
Wells Counties and General Hospital. From 1927-1928 he was President of the Kent
Branch of the British Medical Association. He was the author of The Pathology of
Chorea.
CHARLES EDWARD ROBBS (1859-1922). B.A., M.B. (Cantab.),
M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A., B.Sc. (Lond.).
Charles Edward Robbs (1859-1922) [Epsom College 1873-1878] was the son of
Dr W. E. Robbs of Stamford, Lincolnshire. He won a Science Scholarship to Gonville
and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a Prizeman, and then completed his
medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, winning the Gilchrist Scholarship. He
was appointed Consultant Surgeon at Gravesend Hospital, and the Borough
Sanatorium.
JAMES GILPIN HOUSEMAN (1859-1912). M.D., M.B., C.M. (Edin.).
James Gilpin Houseman (1859-1912) [Epsom College 1873-1873] was the son
of Dr John Houseman of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and brother of Leonard Spensley
Houseman [Epsom College 1866-1867]. He received his medical education at
Edinburgh University. He was initially an Honorary Physician at Newcastle-uponTyne Children’s Hospital, and later, Surgeon to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Throat and
Ear Hospital, and Assistant Surgeon to the Northumberland Eye Infirmary.
PHILIP PERCIVAL WHITCOMBE (1859-1932). M.B. (Lond.), M.R.C.S.
(Eng.), L.S.A.
Philip Percival Whitcombe (1859-1932) [Epsom College 1874-1878. Cricket
XI] was the son of Philip Whitcombe, surgeon, of Gravesend, Kent, and brother of the
Right Rev. Robert Henry Whitcombe, Suffragan Bishop of Colchester [Epsom
College 1874-1876]. He won an Open Science Scholarship to St Mary’s Hospital, and
went on to win a Pathology Scholarship and the Gold Medal for Forensic Medicine, in
the M.B. Examination, which he passed with 1st Class Honours. He was appointed
Clinical Assistant at the Hospital for Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat, Golden
Square, London. During the First World War he served as a Surgeon Major in H. M.
Queen’s Westminster Reserve Volunteers.
GEORGE ALFRED CARPENTER (1859-1910). M.D. (London),
M.R.C.P. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.S.A.
George Alfred Carpenter (1859-1910) [Epsom College 1874-1876] was the son
of Dr J. W. Carpenter of Lambeth Terrace, South London. He received his medical
training at St Thomas’s and Guy’s Hospitals, and was appointed Consultant Physician
at the Evelina Children’s Hospital, and Physician to the North Eastern Hospital for
Children, Bethnal Green. He was the Editor of Pediatrics and the British Journal of
Children’s Diseases, and author of Congenital Afflictions of the Heart.
JOHN WILLIAM DUNBAR HOOPER (1860-1935). M.D. (Edin.),
L.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.). M.D. (Durham).
John William Dunbar Hooper (1860-1935) [Epsom College 1870-1873] was the
son of Lieutenant-Colonel W. R. Hooper, C.I.E., I.M.S. of the Bengal Army, and
brother of Henry James Thompson Hooper [Epsom College 1872-1873]. He received
his medical training at Edinburgh University, after which he emigrated to Australia,
where he was appointed Honorary Surgeon to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital,
Melbourne, where he had such a distinguished medical career that the University of
Melbourne named the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology after him.
GEORGE JAMES ELLIOT TROTTER (1860-1946). L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.
(Edin.), J.P.
George James Elliot Trotter (1860-1946) [Epsom College 1875-1878] was the
son of Dr James Trotter of Staindrop, Co. Durham, and brother of Ernest Dale Trotter
[Epsom College 1877-1880], and John Herbert Trotter [Epsom College 1879-1880].
He received his medical training at Edinburgh University. From 1900-1902 he served
with the South African Field Force as a Civil Surgeon. At the outset of the First
World War he joined the R.A.M.C. with the rank of Captain (1914-1918). George
Trotter was a J.P. for the County of Durham, and is recorded as spending his summers
in England, but the winters at a second home in Ajaccio, Corsica.
HENRY JAMES LEY (1860-1936). O.B.E., M.D. (Edin.), M.B., C.M.,
F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Henry James Ley (1860-1936) [Epsom College 1873-1877. Rugby XV] was the
son of Richard Ley, surgeon, of South Molton, Devon, and brother of John William
Ley, F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 1863-1866]. He received his medical training at the
London Hospital and Edinburgh University, and was appointed Resident Surgeon at
Birmingham General Hospital, and then Surgeon to the Red Cross Hospital,
Christchurch.
WILLIAM HENRY BOWES (1861-1922). M.D. (Lond.), B.S. (Lond.),
F.R.C.S. (Eng).
Henry William Bowes (1861-1922) [Epsom College 1873-1880. Sterry and
Brande Prizes] was the son of John Bowes, surgeon, of Herne Bay, Kent, and brother
of Dr Charles Kessick Bowes, M.D. [Epsom College 1873-1881], Dr Tom Armstrong
Bowes, M.D. [Epsom College 1881-1888], Robert Arthur Bowes [Epsom College
1885-1889], John Archibald Bowes [Epsom College 1887-1891], and Harold
McGowan Bowes [Epsom College 1890-1895]. He received his medical education at
Guy’s Hospital, where he took 1st Class Honours in the M.B. Examination
(Physiology). He was appointed Medical Superintendant of the Plymouth Borough
Asylum, Ivybridge, South Devon.
JOHN HENRY CHALDECOTT (1861-1950). L.R.C.P., F.F.P.S. Glasgow).
John Henry Chaldecott (1861-1950) [Epsom College 1873-1880. prefect.
Captain of the Rugby XV. MacFarlane Cup] was the son of C. W. Chaldecott,
surgeon, of Dorking, Surrey, and brother of Dr Horace Octavius Chaldecott [Epsom
College 1856-1861]. He received his medical education at St Thomas’s Hospital and
went on to be appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at St Mary’s Hospital; and
Anaesthetist at the Italian Hospital, St John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, and
the Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital. He was Captain of the St Thomas’s
Hospital Rugby XV (1883-1884)/
JOSEPH GEORGE HARSANT (1861-1914). M.D. (Lond.), B.S., M.R.C.P.
(Lond.).
Joseph George Harsant (1861-1914) [Epsom College 1872-1880. Cricket XI]
was the son of William Harsant, chemist, of Epsom, Surrey. He received his medical
training at Guy’s Hospital, and then entered general practice at Bournemouth. In
1905, he took the M.R.C.P. Diploma and one year later was appointed Consultant
Physician to the Royal Victoria Hospital, and to the Royal National Sanatorium for
Consumptives, at Bournemouth, in 1908. He was previously the Resident Medical
Officer at the London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest.
EDMUND PERCIVAL COCKEY (1861-1917). M.D. (Lond.), M.B., B.S.
(Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Edmund Percival Cockey (1861-1917) [Epsom College 1873-1879. Rugby XV.
Propert Prize] was the son of Edmund Cockey, surgeon, of Frome, Somerset. He
received his medical training at St Mary’s Hospital, taking 1st Class Honours in the
M.B. Examination, and winning a Hospital Scholarship and the Gold Medal for
Forensic Medicine. He was appointed Consultant Physician at St Mary’s Hospital but,
in 1917 was killed in a motoring accident in Australia.
KENNETH FREDERICK TOOKE BUEÉ (1862-1906). M.R.C.S. (Eng.),
L.S.A.
Kenneth Frederick Tooke Bueé (1862-1906) [Epsom College 1875-1878] was
the son of Dr W. W. Bueé of Slough, Middlesex, and the brother of John Walter Buée
[Epsom College 1874-1877], and Henry Seward Bentley Buée [Epsom College 18771878]. He received his medical training at University College Hospital, and was later
appointed Senior Medical Officer at Accra, Gold Coast (Ghana).
WALTER SOUTHEY WRIGHT (1862-1929). B.A. (Oxon), M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), L.S.A.
Walter Southey Wright (1862-1929) [Epsom College 1876-1882. Entrance
Scholarship. head prefect. Rugby XV. Cricket XI. English Verse Prize] was the son of
J. F. Wright, surgeon of Portman Square, London, and brother of the Rev. Henry
Charles Wright [Epsom College 1867-1871]. He received his medical education at
Balliol College, Oxford, and St Mary’s and Guy’s Hospitals. He was an Admiralty
Surgeon and late Medical Officer to the Wareham Union in Dorset.
COLONEL EDWARD JAMES MOORE (1862-1925). C.B., V.D.,
R.A.M.C., M.A., M.B., B.Ch. (Oxon.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.S.A., D.P.H. (Cantab.).
Edward James Moore (1862-1925) [Epsom College 1875-1881. head prefect.
Rugby XV. Captain of the Cricket XI. Hodgkin, Engledue and Martin Classics Prizes.
Forest Exhibition] was the son of Thomas Moore, F.R.C.S., of Petersfield,
Hampshire, and brother of Kentish Moore [Epsom College 1882-1883]. He received
his medical education at Christ Church, Oxford and St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
During the First World War he served as a Colonel in the R.A.M.C., Commanding the
3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. He was Captain of the Oxford University
Rugby XV and a member of the England Rugby XV (1883).
ROBERT BROOKS POPHAM (1862-1951). L.R.C.S. (Edin.), L.F.P.S.
(Glasgow), L.R.C.P., L.S.A., F.R.C.P. (Edin.), F.L.S.
Robert Brooks Popham (1862-1951) [Epsom College 1878-1878] was the son
of Dr R. H. Popham of Bartholomew Road, North London. From Epsom College he
won an Entrance Scholarship to University College Hospital and from there
proceeded to Edinburgh University. He was Honorary Surgeon to the Royal Maternity
Charity, and Surgeon to various shipping lines. He was a member of the Harveian
Society, the author of Reminiscences of Many Lands, and was awarded the Diploma
Membre, Hon.Inst.Litt et Art de France.
SAMUEL LEONARD CLIFT (1862-1915). M.D. (Brux.), M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Samuel Leonard Clift (1862-1915) [Epsom College 1876-1879] was the son of
Samuel Clift, an engineer of Chatham, Kent, and brother of Clyde Ernest Clift
[Epsom College 1877-1879]. He received his medical education at University College
Hospital and Brussels University. He was appointed Consultant Physician at the
Royal Victoria Hospital, Bournemouth and was previously Resident Medical Officer
at the National Sanatorium for Consumptives in Bournemouth, and Assistant Medical
Officer at St. Luke’s Infirmary, Chelsea.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SAMUEL ESMOND PRALL (1862-1934).
I.M.S., M.D., M.B. (Hons.), B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Samuel Esmond Prall (1862-1934) [Epsom College 1873-1873] was the son of
Samuel Prall, surgeon, of West Malling, Kent. He received his medical education at
Guy’s Hospital, passing the M.B. Examination, with Honours. He entered the Indian
Medical Service as a surgeon in 1888 and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel after
twenty years service. During the First World War he served as a surgeon in the
R.A.M.C. and was mentioned in dispatches (1918). After the war he was a civil
surgeon at Lucknow, and later at Aden.
MAJOR JOHN SIMPSON EDYE (1863-1909). R.A.M.C., M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), L.S.A.
John Simpson Edye (1863-1909) [Epsom College 1877-1879] was the son of
Captain J. E. Edye, R.N., of Stoke, Devon. He received his medical education at St
Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Army Staff College, Colchester. He served as a
Major in the R.A.M.C., and was appointed Medical Officer to No 1 Section Hospital,
Meerut, India. He died in India in 1909, aged 46 years. He was the author of Sport in
India and Somaliland, with hints to Young Shikaries.
ERNEST AUGUSTUS FARR (1863-1935). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), J.P.
Ernest Augustus Farr (1863-1935) [Epsom College 1876-1879] was the son of
S. B. Farr, surgeon, of Andover, Hampshire, and brother of Alexander Farr [Epsom
College 1874-1877]. He received his medical training at Guy’s Hospital. He was
Medical Officer of Health for Andover, Hampshire for 26 years, as well as Medical
Officer to the War Memorial Hospital, Andover, and Mayor of Andover from 1920 to
1923. In 1926 he was given the Freedom of the Borough of Andover (1926). He was
a J.P. for the County of Hampshire.
PERCY TARGETT ADAMS (1863-1935). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
L.S.A., D.P.H. (Eng.).
Percy Targett Adams (1863-1935) [Epsom College 1876-1879] was the son of
M. A. Adams, surgeon, of Maidstone, Kent. He received his medical training at Guy’s
Hospital and the Newcastle School of Medicine. He was a Surgeon Major in the
South African Medical Corps from 1899 until 1902, and then Medical Officer of
Health and Government Bacteriologist for the Orange Free State, South Africa until
1910. Following this, he was appointed Assistant Medical Officer of Health, Union of
South Africa (1910-1923). He retired from this post in 1923 and served as
Government Medical Officer, Bechuanaland, from 1924 until 1926. He was the author
of numerous reports and publications on public health and preventive medicine.
ROBERT GUTHRIE POOLE LANSDOWN (1863-1924). M.D.
(Durham), B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Robert Guthrie Poole Lansdown (1863-1924) [Epsom College 1880-1882] was
the son of Dr J. P. Lansdown of Clifton, Bristol, and grandfather of John Robert Poole
Lansdown, R.N. [Epsom College 1938-1943], Dr Peter Francis Poole Lansdown
[Epsom College 1939-1940], and Michael Guy Poole Lansdown [Epsom College
1944-1948]. He received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital, Bristol and
Durham Universities. During the First World War he served as a Major in the
R.A.M.C., on the staff of the 2nd Southern General Hospital, Bristol. He was then
appointed Lecturer in Surgery at Bristol University, and Consultant Surgeon, Bristol
General Hospital. Other appointments included Chairman of the Medical Board of
Bristol University, Dean of the Medical School, Bristol University, and President of
the Bristol Branch of the British Medical Association (1915-1918). He was President
of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society (1918-1919), and he represented Bristol
General Hospital on the Court of Bristol University. In 1883 he received the Bronze
Medal of the Royal Humane Society for his rescue of a lady drowning in the sea.
SURGEON CAPTAIN GEORGE GOSS BORRETT (1864-1946). R.N.,
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
George Goss Borrett (1864-1946) [Epsom College 1877-1879] was the son of
G. K. Borrett, surgeon, of Aspeden, Hertfordshire, and brother of Frederick Augustus
Wells Borrett [Epsom College 1877-1880]. He won an Entrance Scholarship to
Epsom College, and from there received his medical training at the London Hospital.
During the First World War he served as a Surgeon Commander in the Royal Navy,
with the Grand Fleet and in the Mediterranean. He was then promoted to Surgeon
Captain. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health. As a distinguished
rifle shot, he finished in the Queen’s 100 at Wimbledon in 1887.
HAROLD ANDREW KIDD (1864-1929). C.B.E., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Harold Andrew Kidd (1864-1929) [Epsom College 1878-1883. prefect. Captain
of the Rugby XV. Captain of the Cricket XI. MacFarlane Cup. Elocution, Hodgkin
and Wakley Prizes] was the son of Dr H. A. Kidd of Calcutta, brother of Herbert
Alfred Kidd [Epsom College 1879-1881], and father of Dr Henry Andrew Kidd,
F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 1917-1921]. Harold Kidd was then awarded an Open
Science Scholarship to St Mary’s Hospital, where he won the Ophthalmic Prize.
During the First World War he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the R.A.M.C. (19151918), in charge of the Chichester War Hospital. After the War he was appointed
Medical Superintendent to the West Sussex County Asylum, Chichester, and later as
Senior Medical Officer of Cane Hill Asylum.
HENRY HERBERT FOLKER (1864-1925). O.B.E., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.).
Henry Herbert Folker (1864-1925) [Epsom College 1877-1881] was the son of
Dr W. H. Folker of Hanley, Staffordshire, and brother of Percy Newton Folker
[Epsom College 1881-1882]. He received his medical training at Charing Cross
Hospital, and was appointed Honorary Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon to the North
Staffordshire Infirmary, and the North Staffordshire Blind and Deaf Asylum. In due
course he was elected Chairman of the North Staffordshire Division of the British
Medical Association. He served as a Captain in the North Staffordshire Regiment
from 1899 to 1902, and as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1915-1917), at the Northern
Command Headquarters at York. He was then appointed Deputy Commissioner of
Medical Services at the Ministry of
Pensions from 1917 to 1921 and
Staffordshire County Director of the Red
Cross. In recognition of these services he
was awarded the O.B.E in 1920. In 1910,
Herbert Folker brought before a medical
meeting “the matter of children suffering
from ophthalmia neonatorum becoming
blind owing to the lack of early attention.
His proposal for the compulsory notification
of the disease was eventually adopted across
the country”. This led to a dramatic drop in
the incidence of blindness from the disease. He was one of the first doctors to own a
motor car and possessed an early electric model.
WILLIAM CARDOZO HICHENS (1864-1915). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.).
William Cardozo Hichens (1864-1915) [Epsom College 1876-1882. Rugby XV]
was the son of J. H. Hichens, surgeon, of Redruth, Cornwall, and brother of James
Harvey Hichens, M.A., Head Master, King Edward VII School [Epsom College 18701878]. He received his medical education at the London Hospital, and was later
appointed Surgeon to Redruth Hospital, and Medical Officer of Health and Public
Vaccinator for Redruth, Cornwall. He was Captain of the London Hospital Rugby
XV, the United Hospitals Rugby XV and Cricket XI, and a member of the Kent
County Rugby XV.
HARRY CORNER (1864-1945). M.B., M.D. (London), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.).
Harry Corner (1864-1945) [Epsom College 1879-1883. prefect. Rugby XV]
was the son of Dr F. M. Corner, of Poplar, East London, and brother of Elgie Corner
[Epsom College 1881-1885, Dr Albert Corner [Epsom College 1879-1885], and father
of Francis William Corner [Epsom College 1906-1913]. He received his medical
education at the London Hospital, and went on to be appointed Consultant
Psychiatrist at Bethlem Hospital, London; Medical Superintendent of the Royal
Earlswood Institution; Lecturer on mental diseases, neurology and psychiatry at the
North-East London Postgraduate College, and Physician to the National Association
for the Welfare of the Feebleminded. He was a member of the London Hospital
Rugby XV, the United Hospitals and the Kent County Rugby XVs.
EDWARD PETRONELL MANBY (1864-1929). B.A., M.D. (Cantab.),
B.Ch., D.P.H. (Cantab.).
Edward Petronell Manby (1864-1929) [Epsom College 1876-1880] was the
son of Frederick Manby, surgeon, of East Rudham, Norfolk, and brother of Sir Alan
Reeve Manby, M.V.O., Physician extraordinary to King George V [Epsom College
1859-1864], and Frederick Edward Manby, F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 1857-1861]. He
received his medical training at Christ’s College, Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital, and
was appointed Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health, and Assistant Medical
Officer of Health for Liverpool. He was at the same time an Examiner in Public
Health for London, Liverpool and Leeds Universities, and a Member of the Honorable
Society of the Middle Temple. “Manby knew more about Poor Law medical work
than almost any other medical man in existence, and therefore the fact that he has
been lost to the service is nothing less than a national misfortune, more especially in
view of the coming into operation on April 1st next of the Local Government Act,
1929”.
MAJOR HARRY WILLIAM ELPHICK (1865-1906). I.M.S., M.B.
(Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Harry William Elphick (1865-1906) [Epsom College 1877-1883. prefect.
Captain of the Rugby XV. Cricket XI. Martin Prize] was the son of Dr William
Elphick of Plaistow, East London, and father of Dr Harry Noel Keyes Elphick, M.C.
[Epsom College 1908-1915]. He won an Entrance Scholarship to University College
Hospital, and after qualification served as a Major in the Indian Medical Service in
Bengal. He took part in the Manipur Expedition (1891), and received the Medal with
clasp. He was a member of the Sussex County Rugby XV.
CHARLES POOLE KENNARD (1865-1945). M.D. (Edin.), M.B., C.M.
(Edin.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Charles Poole Kennard (1865-1945) [Epsom College 1877-1881] was the son
of T. A. Kennard, surgeon, of Highworth, Wiltshire, and brother of Tom Atherton
Kennard [Epsom College 1875-1881], and Percy Kennard [Epsom College 18821885]. He received his medical training at Edinburgh University, and was appointed
Government Medical Officer, on the Essequibo Coast and the East Coast of
Demerara, British Guiana. “The Kennard estate spawned by the doctor’s agricultural
interests sprawled to over 1,200 hectares of cattle, coconut and rice lands. In addition
to his outstanding research into tropical diseases, especially malaria, for which he was
awarded the Davson Centenary Gold Medal in 1923, Charles Kennard turned to
breeding race horses…the family name is enshrined in the Kennard Memorial Turf
Club, 22 miles from New Amsterdam.”
HENRY JOHN TIZARD (1865-1935). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Henry John Tizard (1865-1935) [Epsom College 1878-1882] was the son of Dr
Henry Tizard of Weymouth, Dorset. He received his medical training at St George’s
Hospital, and was later appointed Consultant Psychiatrist at Colney Hatch Mental
Hospital [Friern Hospital]. He emigrated later to New Zealand, where he took up the
appointment of Consultant Psychiatrist at Seacliff Mental Hospital in Auckland.
JAMES NEAL (1866-1935). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
James Neal (1866-1935) [Epsom College 1878-1882] was the son of Dr James
Neal of Sandown, Isle of Wight, and brother of John Richmond Neal [Epsom College
1884-1885], and Thomas Hemmant Neal [Epsom College 1893-1895]. He received
his medical education at Queen’s College, Birmingham (Birmingham University), and
was later appointed Medical Officer to the Birmingham Small Arms (B.S.A.) Factory,
and Secretary of the Medical Defence Union. He was the Editor of the Midland
Medical Journal, and author of The Feeding of Infants.
LIEUTENANT- COLONEL HENRY ASHTON RUDYARD (18661940). R.A.M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), L.S.A., L.M.S.S.A.
Henry Ashton Rudyard (1866-1940) [Epsom College 1882-1883] was the son of
Dr Aldred Rudyard of Watford, Hertfordshire. He received his medical training at
University College Hospital. During the First World War he served as a Surgeon
Captain and was Officer in Charge of the 3rd East Anglian Field Ambulance and the
Welsh Field Ambulance. He then joined the R.A.M.C. as a Lieutenant-Colonel with
the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Regiment.
WALTER STANLEY HALL (1866-1944). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Walter Stanley Hall (1866-1944) [Epsom College 1879-1882. Cricket XI] was
the son of Frederick Hall, surgeon, of Wragby, Lincolnshire. He received his medical
training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon at the
Southampton Free Eye Hospital. Some time later he was appointed Coroner for the
Bradford North District of Shropshire.
HENRY ERNEST KNIGHT (1866-1927). M.B., M.D. (Lond.), M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), J.P.
Henry Ernest Knight (1866-1927) [Epsom College 1880-1884. prefect] was the
son of Dr H. J. Knight of Rotherham, Yorkshire, and the brother of the Rev. Arthur
Cecil Knight, Headmaster of King Edward VI School, Stratford-on-Avon [Epsom
College 1890-1894], and father of Dr Ronald Henry Knight, M.D. [Epsom College
1916-1921], and Robert Cecil Knight [Epsom College 1925-1930]. He received his
medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant
Surgeon at Rotherham Hospital, and Chairman of the Rotherham Branch of the
British Medical Association (1909-1926). In 1912-1913 he was elected President of
the Sheffield Medical Society. He also served as a J.P. for the Borough of Rotherham.
VICTOR ALBERT LOUIS EDWARD CORBOULD (1866-1933). M.D.
(Brux.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Victor Albert Louis Edward Corbould (1866-1933) [Epsom College 18811885. prefect] was the son of E. H. Corbould, an artist, of Kensington. In 1885 he won
an Entrance Scholarship to Charing Cross Hospital and later continued his medical
education at Brussels University. Following qualification he was appointed Assistant
Demonstrator of Physiology at Charing Cross Hospital. He was then appointed
Consultant Anaesthetist at the Victoria Hospital for Children, London, and Charing
Cross Hospital, and an Examiner for the Central Board. He was previously an
Honorary Medical Officer for the Kensington Children’s Hospital.
LUDOVIC WILLIAM DARRA MAIR (1866-1912). M.D. (Lond.),
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Eng.).
Ludovic William Darra Mair (1866-1912) [Epsom College 1881-1883.
prefect. Watts Science Prize] was the son of Dr R. S. Mair of Ledbury Road, Notting
Hill, London, and brother of Colonel Robert John Byford Mair, C.M.G. [Epsom
College 1881-1940], Brigadier-General George Tagore Mair, C.M.G., D.S.O. [Epsom
College 1885-1941], Reginald Sydney Mair [Epsom College 1891-1891], and Frank
Ernest Mair [Epsom College 1891-1891]. He was awarded an Entrance Scholarship to
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and graduated M.B. with Honours in Medicine. He was
appointed Medical Inspector with His Majesty’s Local Government Board. He was
previously Medical Officer of Health for Croydon.
WALTER STANLEY HOLFORD (1866-1934). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
L.D.S.
Walter Stanley Holford (1866-1934) [Epsom College 1879-1882] was the
son of J. J. Holford, a dentist of Sutton, Surrey, and brother of Sydney John Holford
[Epsom College 1890-1892], Arthur Frederick Holford [Epsom College 1890-1893],
and Frank Hansard Holford [Epsom College1899-1900]. He received his medical
education at St George’s Hospital. He was appointed Consultant Surgeon at the
Belgrave Children’s Hospital and Consultant Dental Surgeon at the same hospital.
JOHN DESMOND GIMLETTE (1867-1934). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
John Desmond Gimlette (1867-1934) [Epsom College 1879-1884. prefect.
Rugby XV. Cricket XI] was the son of Fleet Surgeon Hart Gimlette. He received his
medical education at St Thomas’s Hospital where he won the Sievewright Prize for
Tropical Medicine. In 1890 John Gimlette joined the medical service of the Federated
Malay States, being Resident Surgeon at Pahang (1897-1900) and then at Kelantan
from 1909-1921. At the start of the First World War he received a commission in the
R.A.M.C. with the rank of Major. He was initially appointed Medical Officer at the
Prisoner of War Camp, Dorchester, but was then deployed commanding troops in
H.M. Hospital ship ‘Essequibo’. He later joined the German British East African
Expeditionary Force as a protozoologist, and after the war returned to Kelantan, but
while operating on a coolie, contracted a severe septic infection from which, after a
long illness, with the loss of a leg, he eventually recovered. This effectively ended his
life-work in Malaya, where “his transparently sincere and sympathetic personality had
secured for him the confidence and affection of all, from the Sultan (to whom he was
Personal Physician) to the humblest peasant”. He was awarded the 1915 Star, the
General Service and Victory Medals. He was the author of a Dictionary of Malay
Medical Terms and Myxoedema and the Thyroid Gland (1895).
CHARLES ARTHUR KENT (1867-1948). M.D. B.Sc., B.S. (Lond.),
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Cantab.).
Charles Arthur Kent (1867-1948) [Epsom College 1878-1885. prefect.
Brande, Propert and Watts Science Prizes] was the son of Dr J. G. Kent of Kingstonon-Thames, and brother of John Shelley Alexander Kent [Epsom College 1879-1880].
He won an Entrance Scholarship to University College Hospital, and was
subsequently appointed Consultant Physician at Dulwich.
WILLIAM THYNE (1867-1912). M.A., M.D., C.M. (Edin.), L.R.C.P.,
L.R.C.S. (Edin.).
William Thyne (1867-1912) [Epsom College 1880-1883] was the son of Dr
Thomas Thyne of Twickenham, Middlesex. He received his medical training at
Edinburgh University, and was subsequently appointed Surgeon to Barnet Hospital,
and Medical Superintendent of the Barnet Isolation Hospital.
PTOLEMY AUGUSTUS COLMER (1867-1931). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), L.S.A., J.P.
Ptolemy Augustus Colmer (1867-1931) [Epsom College 1880-1885. Captain
of Rugby XV] was the son of Dr P. S. H. Colmer of Yeovil, Somerset, and brother of
Dr Robert Jacob Colmer [Epsom College 1879-1882]. He received his medical
training at the London Hospital, and was subsequently appointed Honorary
Consultant Surgeon at Yeovil District Hospital, Somerset. He also served as a J.P. for
the County of Somerset. He was Captain of the London Hospital Rugby XV, a
member of the Somerset County Rugby XV for 8 years, and a member of the Western
Counties Rugby XV.
SURGEON-COMMANDER ROBERT THOMAS GILMOUR (18671946). R.N., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), L.S.A.
Robert Thomas Gilmour (1867-1946) [Epsom College 1882-1884. Rugby
XV. Epsom Scholarship in Natural Sciences. Botany Prize] was the son of G. H. D.
Gilmour, surgeon, of Andover, Hampshire. He won an Entrance Scholarship to St
Mary’s Hospital, and was subsequently appointed Honorary Surgeon and Lecturer at
the Alice Memorial Hospital, Hong Kong, after an early career as a Surgeon
Commander in the Royal Navy.
ARCHIE TILLYER COLLUM (1867-1896). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.S
(Eng.).
Archie Tillyer Collum (1867-1896) [Epsom College 1880-1886. prefect.
Captain of Rugby XV for three years] was the son of Dr Robert Collum of Surbiton,
Surrey, and brother of Hugh Fraser Collum [Epsom College 1883-1886], John Money
Collum [Epsom College 1884-1888], Arthur Julian Collum [Epsom College 18861890], and Dr Rowland William Collum [Epsom College 1887-1892]. He won an
Entrance Scholar to Charing Cross Hospital, where, after qualification he was
appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy and Surgical Tutor. At the very early age of 26
he was appointed Assistant Surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital. He was also Surgeon
Lieutenant to the Queen’s Westminster Corps of Volunteers. He died of septicaemia
in 1896, aged only 29 years.
MAJOR WILLIAM HENRY NEILSON (1854-1903). I.M.S., M.B., C.M.
(Aberdeen).
William Henry Neilson (1854-1903) [Epsom College 1867-1867. Carr Prize]
was the son of Surgeon Major W. C. Neilson, Bombay Army. He received his medical
education at Aberdeen University and Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. He served as a
Surgeon in the Madras Army, Indian Medical Service. No further details known.
HENRY HOLMAN WEEKES (1868-1951). O.B.E., M.D. (Brux.),
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Henry Holman Weeks (1868-1951) [Epsom College 1884-1886. Rugby XV]
was the son of Dr Henry Weekes of Brompton, Kent. He received his medical training
at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Brussels University. During the First World War,
he served with the rank of Captain in the R.A.M.C. as Officer in Charge of an
Ambulance Train for 4 years. For this he was awarded the O.B.E. After the war he
was appointed Physician at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Rochester, Kent.
FRANCIS WYLLIE HALL-WRIGHT (1868-1939). L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.
(Edin.), L.F.P.S. (Glasgow).
Francis Wyllie Hall-Wright (1868-1939) [Epsom College 1881-1883] was the
son of M. Hall-Wright, surgeon, of Edgbaston, Warwickshire. He received his
medical training at Charing Cross Hospital, Birmingham University and Edinburgh
Royal Infirmary. In 1897, he joined the Helpman Expedition to the Klondyke area of
Canada. The purpose of this expedition was mapping and mineral exploration, but
unfortunately the Expedition proved unsuccessful. Francis Hall-Wright then turned
his attention to prospecting in the North-West Territory of Australia before his
appointment as Colonial Surgeon and Government Medical Officer in British
Honduras (Belize).
SIDNEY HERBERT REGINALD LUCY (1868-1950). M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Sidney Herbert Reginal Lucy (1868-1950) [Epsom College 1880-1885. Cricket
XI] was the son of Dr William Lucy of Bristol. He received his medical education at
Guy’s Hospital and Bristol University, and was subsequently appointed State Surgeon
at Pahang, Straits Settlements (Malaysia), and Principal Civil Medical Officer for the
Straits Settlements.
ARTHUR BASSETT JONES (1868-1935). M.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
F.S.A.
Arthur Bassett Jones (1868-1935) [Epsom College 1884-1887. Watts Science
Prize] was the son of Dr Morris Jones of Aberystwyth, Wales, and brother of Richard
Llewellyn Jones [Epsom College 1886-1887]. He received his medical education at
University College Hospital, where he won the Silver Medal for Therapeutics, and
took First Class Honours for Medicine in the M.B. Examination. During the First
World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1914-1918). After the War he
was appointed Consultant Surgeon to Aberystwyth Infirmary and the Cardiganshire
General Hospital. He served as Coroner for Aberystwyth and North Cardiganshire.
JOHN ORTON (1869-1940). M.D., B.Ch. (Birmingham), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), L.F.P.S. (Glas.), D.T.M. & H., D.P.H. (Edin.), J.P.
John Orton (1869-1940) [Epsom College 1884-1888. prefect. Rugby XV] was the
son of Dr John Orton [Epsom College 1856-1860]. He won the Ingleby Scholarship
to Queen’s College and Mason’s College, Birmingham (Birmingham University), and
was subsequently appointed Regional Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health. He
was also Assistant Commissioner for Warwickshire of the St John Ambulance
Brigade, and a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. During the First
World War he served as a Major in the R.A.M.C., attached to the Royal Warwickshire
Regiment, and was Senior Medical Officer for the Coventry Area, Southern
Command. He was elected President of the Birmingham Branch of the British
Medical Association (1915-1916), was a member of the Central Ethical Committee of
the British Medical Association (1919-1920), and President of the Midlands Branch
of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. He served as a J.P. for the City of
Coventry.
FREDERICK THOMAS TRAVERS (1869-1959). O.B.E., M.B., B.S.
(Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., J.P.
Frederick Thomas Travers (1869-1959) [Epsom College 1880-1882] was the
son of Dr William Travers of Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, London. He received
his medical education at University College Hospital, where he took First Class
Honours in the M.B., B.S. Examination, and won the Fellowe’s Gold Medal. He was
later appointed Senior Obstetric Assistant Surgeon at University College Hospital,
after a period as Surgeon to the West Kent General Hospital, Maidstone, Kent. He
was a J.P. for Maidstone.
THOMAS BUXTON FLINT (1869-1940). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), J.P.
Thomas Buxton Flint (1869-1940) [Epsom College 1880-1882] was the son of
Dr W. H. Flint of Buxton, Derbyshire. He received his medical education at Owen’s
College, Manchester (Manchester University). He was appointed Consultant
Physician to Royal Devonshire Hospital, Buxton. He also served as a J.P. for Buxton.
HON. GEORGE JAMES RUTHERFORD (1869-1948). M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), J.P.
The Honorable George James Rutherford (1869-1948) [Epsom College 18831886] was the son of Dr Samuel Rutherford of Pulborough, Sussex, and brother of
Alexander Charles Rutherford [Epsom College 1885-1889], and Cyril Felix
Rutherford, Secretary of the French Rugby Football Union from 1900. [Epsom
College 1886-1890]. He received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital,
and served as a Government Medical Officer in Nigeria, Ghana and Ceylon. He was
later appointed Principal Medical Officer, Ceylon, and Inspector General of Hospitals,
Ceylon. He served as a J.P. for Ceylon and was a Member of the Ceylon Legislative
Council.
WILLIAM BARRINGTON PROWSE (1870-1958). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), F.F.R.
William Barrington Prowse (1870-1958) [Epsom College 1882-1882] was the
son of Dr William Prowse of Cambridge. He received his medical education at the
London Hospital and Bristol Royal Infirmary, and was a Consultant Radiologist at the
Royal Sussex County Hospital, and Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children,
Brighton. During the First World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (19141918).
DAVID KEELE (1870-1945). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
David Keele (1870-1945) [Epsom College 1884-1887] was the son of Dr G. T.
Keele of Highbury, North London. He was the father of Dr George William Keel
[Epsom College 1912-1918], Professor Cyril Arthur Keele, F.R.C.P. [Epsom College
1918-1923], and Dr Kenneth David Keele, F.R.C.P. [Epsom College 1923-1927]. He
received his medical education at University College Hospital, and was appointed
Consultant Surgeon at the Islington Dispensary.
HENRY GWYNNE LAWRENCE (1870-1944). M.B., M.D. (Lond.),
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Henry Gwynne Lawrence (1870-1944) [Epsom College 1884-1889. prefect.
Rugby XV (1887-1889). Brande, Engledue Essay and Watts Science Prizes] was the
son of Dr A. G. Lawrence of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, and brother of Dr Arthur
Spead Lawrence [Epsom College 1884-1885]. He won an Entrance Scholarship to St
Mary’s Hospital, where he took First Class Honours in the M.B. Examination. In due
course, he won the Gold Medal in the M.D. Examination, and a University of London
Scholarship in Medicine, having taken 1st Class Honours in Obstetrics and Medicine.
After working as a Demonstrator in Anatomy at St Mary’s Hospital, and a Clinical
Assistant at the Brompton hospital, he was appointed Medical Officer of Health for
Chepstow, Monmouthshire. During the First World War he served as Principal
Medical Officer on the Hospital Ship ‘Liberty’ (1914-1915), and then Physician to the
Endsleigh Palace Hospital for Officers, London (1915-1918).
COLONEL ASTLEY VAVASOUR CLARKE (1870-1945). M.A., M.B.,
B.Ch., M.D. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), J.P.
Astley Vavasour Clarke (1870-1945) [Epsom College 1885-1885] was the son
of Dr J. St. T. Clarke of Leicester. He received his medical education at Caius
College, Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital. Following qualification he entered the
R.A.M.C. as a Lieutenant-Colonel serving as A.D.M.S. to the North Midland Division
and afterwards appointed Administrator of the 5th Northern General Hospital,
Leicester with the rank of Colonel, A.M.S. He was Honorary Consultant Physician
and Radiologist, Leicester Infirmary, a Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) for Leicestershire,
and a J.P. for the City of Leicester. After the War, he was appointed Honorary
Consultant Physician, Ministry of Pensions; Medical Director of the Frith Home of
Recovery for neurasthenia cases under the Ministry of Pensions, and Chairman of the
Leicester City Health Committee. He was also Chairman, City General Hospital,
Leicester, and President of the Leicester Medical Society. In 1942 he was appointed
High Sheriff of Rutland. Astley Clarke was active in the founding of University
College, Leicester, the fore-runner of the University of Leicester, and was a VicePresident and Chairman of its council. He was also Chairman of the Leicester Branch
of the British Medical Association. From 1920 until 1929, he served on the Hospitals
Committee and the Private Practice Committee of the British Medical Association.
SYDNEY HERBERT LONG (1870-1939). M.B., B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.D.
(Cantab.), L.S.A., F.Z.S.
Sydney Herbert Long (1870-1939) [Epsom College 1884-1888] was the son of
Dr Frederick Long of Wells-on-Sea, Norfolk, and brother of the Rev. Frederick Percy
Long [Epsom College 1879-1887]. He received his medical education at Gonville and
Caius College Cambridge, and University College Hospital, where he won the
Fellowe’s Silver Medal for Medicine. He was Consultant Physician at the Norfolk and
Norwich Hospital, the Jenny Lind Hospital for Children, Norwich, and Medical
Officer of Health for St Faith’s R.D.C. At the Annual Meeting of the British Medical
Association at Ipswich (1900) he was Secretary of the Section of Pathology. Sydney
Long was responsible for securing the recognition of Cley and Scolt Head as
nationally important nature reserves. He was Founder of the Norfolk Naturalist’s
Trust (1926) and Secretary of the Trust for twenty-four years.
HARRY JOHN EGERTON HUTCHINS WILLIAMS (1870-1933).
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), M.D. (Brux.), D.P.H. (Cantab.).
Harry John Egerton Hutchins Williams (1870-1933) [Epsom College 18821886. Rugby XV] was the son of Dr Hutchins Williams of Lee, Kent. He received his
medical training at the Middlesex Hospital, where he won prizes for medicine and
pathology, King’s College Hospital, and Brussels University. During the First World
War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C with the 3rd Northern General Hospital,
and was placed in charge of Redmires Camp. After the War he was appointed
Lecturer in Infectious Diseases at Sheffield University, and Medical Superintendent,
Sheffield City Hospital, and Lodge Moor Fever Hospital, Sheffield. He was later
appointed Assistant Medical Officer for the Whitechapel and Holborn infirmary, and
then for the Eastern and Northern Hospital. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of
Public Health, and pioneered the system of issuing hospital bulletins to the Press, an
innovation which he introduced in 1905.
THOMAS HILL BAILEY (1870-1920). L.S.A.
Thomas Hill Bailey (1870-1920) [Epsom College 1884-1887] was the son of Dr
T. C. Bailey of Crewe, East Cheshire. He received his medical education at King’s
College Hospital, and was appointed Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator for the
Nantwich Union, and Honorary Surgeon for Crewe Hospital. During the South
African War (1899-1902) he served as a Civil Surgeon with the South African Field
Force
WILLIAM JOSEPH LINDSAY (1871-1938). M.B.E., M.A., M.D. B.Ch.
(Cantab.), D.P.H.
William Joseph Lindsay (1871-1938) [Epsom College 1886-1887] was the son
of the Rev. Thomas Lindsay of Castle Ellis rectory, Co. Wexford. He received his
medical education at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital. He
served as a Surgeon in the South African War (1899-1902), and was awarded the
medal with three clasps; and from 1914 until 1919, as a Lieutenant Ophthalmic
Surgeon, at Southwark Hospital, with the R.A.M.C. From 1916 until 1920, he was
Ophthalmic Surgeon at the 4th London General Hospital.
PERCY MONTAGUE SMITH (1871-1961). M.D. (Lond.), M.B., B.S.
(Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), L.S.A., F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Percy Montague Smith (1871-1961) [Epsom College 1887-1890. prefect] was
the son of W. H. Smith, a civil engineer, of Streatham Hill, South London, brother of
Sidney Maynard Smith, F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 1889-1893], and father of Harold
Montague-Smith [Epsom College 1921-1923]. He received his medical training at St
Mary’s Hospital, and was subsequently appointed Consultant Physician at the
Kensington Dispensary and Hospital for Sick Children, and Honorary Physician to the
Princess Louise Hospital for Children. He was a Fellow and Council Member of the
Medical Society of London.
FREDERICK NESFIELD COOKSON (1871-1941). M.B., M.D. (Lond.),
F.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.).
Frederick Nesfield Cookson (1871-1941) [Epsom College 1881-1889. prefect.
Rugby XV (1886-1889). Cricket XI. Hodgkin and Watts Science Prizes ] was the son
of Dr Samuel Cookson of Stafford, and brother of Samuel Cecil Cookson [Epsom
College 1885-1888]. He was awarded the Freer Lucas Entrance Scholarship to the
Middlesex Hospital Medical School, and following qualification was appointed
Assistant Demonstrator in Anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital, and then Clinical
Assistant at the Hospital for Women in Chelsea, before his appointment as Consultant
Surgeon at the Staffordshire General Infirmary and Rugeley Hospital. While at
Stafford he was elected President of the Staffordshire Branch of the British Medical
Association, and representative of the Staffordshire Division at the British Medical
Association London Meeting (1908), Toronto Meeting (1906) and Belfast Meeting
(1909). He was a member of the Middlesex Hospital Rugby XV.
COLONEL WILLIAM SOUTHWICK WILLMORE (1872-1941).
I.M.S., M.D. (Durham), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.), D.T.M. &
H. (Eng.).
William Southwick Willmore (1872-1941) [Epsom College 1884-1888] was the
son of Dr F. W. Willmore of Walsall, Staffordshire. He received his medical
education at Birmingham and Durham Universities, before completing his clinical
training at St Thomas’s Hospital. After qualifying, he was appointed Resident
Medical Officer at the Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, before entering the Indian
Medical Service (1899) as a Lieutenant. He was later promoted to full Colonel in
1927. In 1922, after a period as Surgeon and Principal of Agra Medical College, he
was appointed Professor of Surgery at King George’s Medical College, Lucknow,
One year later he was appointed Surgeon at Cawnpore, and in 1927, he was appointed
Inspector General of Civil Hospitals in Bihar and Orissa, where he remained until he
retired. In 1900, he served in the China War, when he took part in the relief of Peking
and in the actions at Pehtsang and Yangtsun, receiving the China Medal and clasp. On
retirement he was elected Chairman of the Mid-Essex Division of the British Medical
Association (1937).
COLONEL WILLIE NETTERVILLE BARRON (1872-1930). C.M.G.,
M.V.O., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Willie Netterville Baron (1872-1930) [Epsom College 1886-1890. Rugby XV.
Ann Hood and Gardiner Prizes] was the son of Dr G. E. Barron of Windsor,
Berkshire. He received his medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he
was a Scholarship winner. After qualification, he entered the R.A.M.C. and reached
the rank of Colonel. During the First World War (1914-1918) he served on the staff
of the D.G.A.M.S. in France (1914), was Commandant of the King’s Lancashire
Military and Convalescent Hospital, Blackpool (1915), and Officer in Charge of the
Colchester General Military Hospital (1918). When serving in India with the
R.A.M.C. he was appointed Plague Officer. He was Surgeon Apothecary to the
Household of T.R.H. Prince and Princess Christian, at Frogmore House, Windsor, and
Honorary Physician and Surgeon at Ascot Hospital. He won the 100 and 220 yards at
the United Hospitals Athletic Championships.
SYDNEY ROBERT WALKER (1872-1945). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Sydney Robert Walker (1872-1945) [Epsom College 1887-1891] was the son of
J. W. Walker, J.P., surgeon of Spilsby, Lincolnshire, and brother of Thomas Hollis
Walker, C.M.G. [Epsom College 1872-1880], Henry Stanley Walker, M.D., J.P.
[Epsom College 1880-1885], and the Rev. Bertie Peregrine Walker [Epsom College
1885-1892]. He received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital. After
qualification he entered the Colonial Medical Service, winning the East and Central
African Medal (with clasp), during the Sudanese Mutiny in Uganda (1898). In 1900
he was awarded the African General Service Medal (with clasp). He served as
Assistant Principal Medical Officer for the East Africa and Uganda Protectorates, and
before that as Surgeon Captain to the Uganda Protectorate Forces.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM HARDCASTLE (1872-1924). M.B., M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), M.D. (Durham), D.P.H., B.Hy. (Durham).
William Hardcastle (1872-1924) [Epsom College 1886-1890] was the son of Dr
Nicholas Hardcastle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and father of Nicholas Hardcastle
[Epsom College 1920-1926]. He won an Entrance Scholarship to Charing Cross
Hospital, where he won the Scholarship and Medal for Medicine, before completing
his medical training at Durham University. He was then appointed Demonstrator in
Bacteriology at Newcastle Medical College, and then Senior Medical Officer to
Newcastle Dispensary, and Medical Officer to H.M. Prison, Newcastle, before his
appointment as Consultant Physician to the Newcastle, and Northumberland War
Memorial Hospital. He was then appointed Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at
Durham University.
ROBERT BLACK PURVES (1872-1937). D.S.O., T.D., M.B., C.M. (Edin.),
F.R.C.S. (Edin.).
Robert Black Purves (1872-1937) [Epsom College 1887-1891] was the son of
Surgeon Major H. B. Purves of the Bengal Army, and brother of John Dove Purves,
Writer to the Signet [Epsom College 1889-1894]. He received his medical education
at Edinburgh University and then the University of Breslau. Following medical
qualification he was appointed Tutor in Clinical Surgery at Edinburgh University, and
Surgeon to the Deaconess Hospital, Edinburgh. He was then appointed Senior
Consultant Surgeon at Lincoln County Hospital, and was elected Chairman of the
Lincoln Division of the British Medical Association. In 1926, he was Vice-President
of the B.M.A. Section of Orthopaedics at the Annual Meeting at Nottingham, and in
1927 he was elected Sheriff of Lincoln (1927). During the First World War he served
as a Lieutenant Colonel in the R.A.M.C. in Egypt and Palestine with the Lincolnshire
Yeomanry, and was on board the transport ship ‘Mercian,’ when it was attacked by an
enemy submarine. He was awarded the D.S.O. for conspicuous bravery in attending
the wounded under fire on that occasion (1918). In 1922, he was granted the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel and received the Territorial Decoration. He died, when falling
from his horse while out hunting.
ALLAN CHILCOTT PARSONS (1873-1946). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
D.T.M. & H. (Lond.), D.P.H.
Allan Chilcott Parsons (1873-1946) [Epsom College 1884-1892. prefect.
Captain of the Rugby XV. Captain of the Cricket XI. Brande Prize] was the son of Dr
F. J. Parsons of Portland, Dorset. He received his medical education at St Thomas’s
Hospital, and was appointed Clinical Assistant in the Dermatology Department.
During the South African War (1898-1902) he served as a Civil Surgeon in the
Artist’s Rifles, winning the South African Medal with four Clasps. He then served in
the Chibbuk Campaign, Nigeria (1906), winning the Medal and being mentioned in
dispatches, before joining the West African Medical Service and being posted to
Northern Nigeria as the first medical officer to be appointed in the area bordering on
Lake Chad. After ten years in Nigeria he was posted to Ghana as the Chief Sanitary
Officer for the capital and port of Accra. He was there during the First World War,
and served as a medical officer in the Togoland Campaign. In 1916 he was seconded
to the R.A.M.C. with the rank of Major and served the rest of the war employed by
the War Office, as D.A.D.M.S. in the Western and Northern Commands. After the
war he left the Colonial Service and, on the advice of Sir Ronald Rose, joined the
newly formed Ministry of Health, working there from 1918-1964. He was responsible
for the Ministry’s report on encephalitis lethargica. During the Second World War he
joined the Emergency Medical Service and was on the staff of Redhill County
Hospital. Allan Parsons later represented the Ministry of Health at the League of
Nations Health Congress in Denmark (1924). He was a member of the St Thomas’s
Hospital Rugby XV and Cricket XI.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES HILTON FURNIVALL
(1873-1946). C.M.G., R.A.M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Charles Hilton Furnivall (1873-1946) [Epsom College 1884-1890. Rugby XV]
was the son of Charles Henry Furnivall, a surgeon of Graham Street, West London,
and father of Michael Henry Duncan Furnivall, R.N. [Epsom College 1935-1938]. He
received his medical training at St Mary’s Hospital, and during the First World War
served in the R.A.M.C., being mentioned in dispatches three times. He was appointed
Assistant Medical Officer at the Islington Infirmary.
THOMAS CALDWELL LITLER JONES [now LITLER-JONES]
(born 1873). F.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Thomas Caldwell Litler-Jones (born 1873) [Epsom College 1888-1889] was the
son of E. W. Jones, a produce broker of Hoylake, Cheshire, and brother of Dr Edward
Shirley Jones [Epsom College 1886-1889]. He received his medical education at St
Bartholomew’s Hospital, and then embarked on an extremely varied career. He was
appointed Assistant Surgeon at Liverpool Royal Infirmary, but then served as a
Surgeon with the South African Field Force (1899-1902), and was Honorary Surgeon
to the Welsh Hospital in Pietersmaritzburg, South Africa. After serving as a Major in
the R.A.M.C., he worked in India, where he was appointed Plague Officer in Bombay.
He was Master of the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers (1932), and retired to
Jersey with the hereditary title of Esnouf (St Martins).
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN HANNA MURRAY (born 1873).
C.I.E., I.M.S. M.D. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.T.M & Hy., D.P.H.
John Hanna Murray (born 1873) [Epsom College 1885-1891. Carr Exhibition]
was the son of Dr John Murray of Wickham, Hampshire. He received his medical
education at University College Hospital. He was later appointed Senior Medical
Officer at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, and then as Provincial Medical Officer
in Fiji. He was a Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. In 1904, he
served as a Medical Officer in the British invasion of Tibet (the ‘Tibet Mission,’), and
during the First World War as a Major in the Indian Medical Service.
REGINALD WORTH (1873-1954). O.B.E., M.B., B.S. (Durham), M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Reginald Worth (1873-1954) [Epsom College 1889-1891] was the son of Dr E.
J. Worth of Devonport, and brother of Edwin Leonard Worth [Epsom College 18801884]. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital and Durham
University, and was appointed Lecturer in Psychological Medicine at the Westminster
Hospital, before becoming Medical Superintendent at Springfield Mental Hospital,
Wandsworth (1912-1939), and then Medical Superintendent of the City of London
Mental Hospital, Dartford, from 1939. He was previously the Senior Assistant
Medical Officer at the Middlesex County Asylum. During the First World War he
served as a Major in the R.A.M.C. (1914-1919) and was awarded the O.B.E. (1919).
In 1935 he was elected President of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association.
“His infectious optimism had a tonic value which far surpassed such therapies as were
extant in the early decades of the century. All in all, his leadership was both inspiring
and supportive”. He was a Member of the General Nursing Council.
COLONEL DAVID PRATT ROCKWOOD (1873-1930). V.D., C.M.G.,
M.R.C.S, L.R.C.S. (Eng.).
David Pratt Rockwood (1873-1930) [Epsom College 1889-1892] was the son of
Dr W. G. Rockwood of Colombo, Ceylon. He received his medical training at
University College Hospital. He then returned to Ceylon where he was appointed
Physician to the General Hospital at Colombo. He was also Surgeon to the Colombo
Police Force, Colombo, and Lecturer in Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the
Ceylon Medical College. During World War One he was the Commanding Officer of
the Ceylon Medical Corps. He was Vice-President of the Ceylon Branch of the British
Medical Association, and a Member of the Physiological Society of Great Britain.
RICHARD GALWAY MURRAY (1873-1953). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
D.P.H. (Cantab.), M.D. (Durham), D.M.R.E. (Cantab.).
Richard Galway Murray (1873-1953) [Epsom College 1886-1892. Rugby XV
(1889-1892). MacFarlane Cup] was the son of Dr Thomas Murray of Trinidad, and
brother of Beverley Thomas Murray [Epsom College 1886-1892]. He received his
medical education at St George’s Hospital, and was appointed Assistant Medical
Registrar. He then entered general practice near Marble Arch, London, but his work
there was interrupted at the commencement of the South African War (1899-1902)
when he enlisted as a Surgeon Captain in the Imperial Yeomanry. He then returned to
his work in general practice, but this was again interrupted at the start of the First
World War, when he joined the R.A.M.C. as a Surgeon Captain and was placed in
charge of the military hospital at Lydd. In 1916, he served as Medical Officer with the
55th Heavy Artillery Group at the Battle of the Somme. After the war he took the
degree of M.D. at the University of Durham and the Diploma of Medical Radiology
(D.M.R.E.) of Cambridge University, before being appointed Radiologist to St
Charles Hospital, North Kensington and St Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children,
Plaistow. In 1897, he was a member of the guard-of-honour at the celebration of
Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. He represented the United Hospitals Athletic Club
in the 100 yards.
GEORGE MONTAGUE HARSTON (1873-1934). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), M.D. (Lond.), D.O. (Oxon.).
George Montague Harston (1873-1934) [Epsom College 1890-1892] was the
son of G. A. Harston, civil engineer, of Kirkstall, Leeds, and brother of George Noel
Battemer [Epsom College 1905-1906]. He was a Scholar of Charing Cross Hospital,
and specialised early in ophthalmic surgery. After receiving the Diploma in
Ophthalmology (D.O.) of Oxford University, he went out to Hong Kong, where he
was appointed Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Tung Wa Hospital; Lecturer in Materia
Medica and Ophthalmology at the University of Hong Kong, and Ophthalmic
Surgeon, Hong Kong University. While there, he was elected President of the Hong
Kong Branch of the British Medical Association (1924-1925).
COLONEL GEORGE HUTCHESON (1874-1944). I.M.S., M.B., B.S.
(Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
George Hutcheson (1874-1944) [Epsom College 1890-1893. Cricket XI] was
the son of George Hutcheson, a surgeon in the Bengal Army. He was awarded an
Entrance Scholarship to the London Hospital, and after qualification, entered the
Indian Medical Service. During his training for this at Netley, he was awarded the
Maclean Prize. George Hutcheson saw active service in China in 1900, and was
awarded the China Medal, was promoted to the rank of Major in 1910, and
Lieutenant-Colonel in 1918. In 1927, he was appointed Inspector-General of Civil
Hospitals and Prisons, in Assam.
GEORGE ALBERT TURNER (1874-1916). M.B., B.Ch. (Aberdeen),
D.P.H. (Aberdeen).
George Albert Turner (1874-1916) [Epsom College. 1887-1889] was the son of
Sir George Turner, M.B., of Cape Town. He received his medical training at
Aberdeen University. He then returned to South Africa where he was appointed
Medical Officer of Health for Kimberley, South Africa, and Medical Officer for the
Witswatersrand Native Labour Association.
ROWLAND WILLIAM COLLUM (born 1874). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.).
Rowland William Collum (born 1874) [Epsom College 1887-1892] was the son
of Dr Robert Collum of Surbiton, Surrey, and the brother of Archie Tillyer Collum,
F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 1880-1886]. He received his medical education at Charing
Cross Hospital. He served as a Civil Surgeon with the South African Field Force in
the Boer War, winning the South Africa Medal and three clasps. During the First
World War he joined the R.A.M.C. as a Captain (1915-1918). He was a Consultant
Anaesthetist at Charing Cross Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond
Street, and the National Dental Hospital.
HERBERT REGINALD MAYO (1874-1940). M.A., M.B., B.Ch. (Cantab.).
Herbert Reginald Mayo (1874-1940) [Epsom College 1888-1893. head prefect.
Rugby XV. Brande and Martin Prizes] was the son of Dr A. C. Mayo, J.P. of Great
Yarmouth, Suffolk, and brother of Thomas Alfred Mayo, F.R.C.S. [Epsom College
1890-1893]. He won a Scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and an
Entrance Scholarship to St Bartholomew’s Hospital. During the First World War he
served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C., in Mesopotamia and India. He was appointed
Surgeon to Great Yarmouth Hospital. He was a Fief of Jersey, and Master of the
Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers (1933). His sporting prowess was such that he
was a member of the Norfolk County Rugby XV, a Hockey ‘Blue,’ and Secretary of
the Hockey Club at Cambridge University.
FLEET SURGEON COMMANDER CHRISTIAN BEVERLEY
FAIRBANK (1874-1947). R.N., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Christian Beverley Fairbank (1874-1947) [Epsom College 1888-1892 Sterry
Prize] was the son of Dr Thomas Fairbank of Windsor, Berkshire, and brother of Sir
Harold Arthur Thomas Fairbank, D.S.O., O.B.E., F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 18881893]. He received his medical education at University College Hospital, and during
the First World War served as a Surgeon Commander on H.M.Ss. Vernon, Victory,
Hecla and Centurion. No further details known.
WILLIAM HENRY OGLE WOODS (1875-1945). M.A. (Cantab.), M.B.,
B.Ch. (Cantab.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).
William Henry Ogle Woods (1875-1945) [Epsom College 1890-1894] was the
son of Dr Theophilus Woods of Gillingham, Dorset, and brother of Dr John Robert
Lloyd Woods [Epsom College 1891-1894]. He received his medical education at
Selwyn College, Cambridge and St Thomas’s Hospital, and was subsequently
appointed Consultant Surgeon and Orthopaedic Surgeon at Swansea General Hospital.
In 1933, he was appointed Chairman of the Swansea Division of the British Medical
Association. He suffered much disability after the amputation of one leg but carried
on his surgical work regardless: “A painstaking surgeon whose judgment was very
sound; an extraordinary man of tremendous courage who just carried on despite his
handicap, probably doing more work than any of us”.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL HUGH STANLEY BEADLES (18751960), R.A.M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Hugh Stanley Beadles (1875-1960) [Epsom College 1888-1892. Entrance
Scholarship] was the son of Dr Arthur Beadles of Forest Hill, South London, brother
of Hubert John Beadles [Epsom College 1887-1889], and father of LieutenantColonel Oliver Hugh Reginald Beadles, O.B.E., T.D. [Epsom College 1918-1927]. He
received his medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. During the First World
War he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C., in Gallipoli, Salonika,
Palestine and Syria, and was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Order of the
Nile (3rd Class). He was the Principal Medical Officer at Gendarmie, Palestine.
ALEXANDER HAMPTON BREWER (1875-1941). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.).
Alexander Hampton Brewer (1875-1941) [Epsom College 1887-1893] was the
son of Dr A. H. Brewer of Dalston, East London, and brother of Dr Henry Jeaffreson
Brewer [Epsom College 1890-1898], and F. S. Brewer [Epsom College 1894-1894].
He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. During the First
World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. After the War he was appointed
Anaesthetist at Leicester Royal Infirmary, and then Consultant Anaesthetist at the
German Hospital, the Samaritan and Royal Free Hospitals, London. Some time later
he was appointed Medical Officer of Health for Woking and Guildford.
LEE DANBY BUXTON COGAN (1875-1956). D.S.O., L.R.C.S. (Edin.),
L.S.A., L.M.S.S.A., J.P.
Lee Danby Buxton Cogan (1875-1956) [Epsom College 1888-1891] was the
son of Dr L. F. Cogan of Northampton. He received his medical education at Guy’s
Hospital. After medical qualification he saw service as a Medical Officer with the
Ashanti Field Force in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (Ghana), and during
the First World War, he served in the R.A.M.C. and was present at the Gallipoli
landings. He was later Assistant Director of the 29th and Southern Divisions, and was
Officer in Command of the 88th Field Ambulance with the rank of LieutenantColonel. In the 1919 New Years’ Honours List he was awarded the D.S.O. He was
also mentioned in dispatches. For a short time he was Deputy Medical Officer for
H.M. Prisons and Post Office. After the War, he spent some time as Senior Clinical
Assistant at the Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, London. In 1935 he was
elected President of the Medical Practitioners Union, and for twenty six years he was
Medical Officer of Health for Northampton. From 1938 until 1953 Lee Cogan was a
member of the Northampton County Borough Council, being appointed an alderman
in 1952. He was a J.P. for Northampton.
THOMAS CHETWOOD (1875-1938). M.B. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), D.P.H. (Oxon.).
Thomas Chetwood (1875-1938) [Epsom College 1888-1894. head prefect.
Rugby XV (1892-1894). Ann Hood Exhibition. Martin and Watts Science Prizes] was
the son of Dr William Chetwood of Finsbury Square, London, and brother of Sydney
William Chetwood [Epsom College 1897-1902], and Francis Lennox Chetwood
(Epsom College 1903-1906]. He received his medical training at the London Hospital,
where he won the Buxton Scholarship as well as the Jenks Memorial Scholarship of
the Royal College of Physicians. He was the Chief School Medical Officer for the
City of Sheffield, and was responsible for writing the annual reports of the Sheffield
School Medical Service from 1914 to 1934. He was also Lecturer on Hygiene at the
University of Sheffield.
COLONEL SIDNEY MANVERS WOOLNER MEADOWS (18761958). D.S.O., R.A.M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.S.A.
Sidney Manvers Woolner Meadows (1876-1958) [Epsom College 1888-1895.
prefect. Rugby XV. Cricket XI] was the son of Dr G. F. W. Meadows of Otley,
Suffolk, and brother of Philip Pierrepoint Woolner Meadows [Epsom College 18911895], and Dr Frederick Evelyn Woolner Meadows [Epsom College 1895-1896]. He
received his medical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he won the
Lawrence Gold Medal and Scholarship. During the First World War he served as a
Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C., as Officer in Charge of the No 2 Military
Hospital, France; was mentioned in dispatches three times, awarded the D.S.O., and
promoted to Colonel. He was an Honorary Associate of St John of Jerusalem, and
Editor of ‘The Epsomian.’
KENNETH VINCENT TRUBSHAW (1876-1958). M.B., B.S. (Lond.),
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).
Kenneth Vincent Trubshaw (1876-1958) [Epsom College 1893-1895. prefect.
Rugby XV. Cricket XI. Watts Science prize. Ann Hood Exhibition] was the son of Dr
Alfred Trubshaw of Mold, Flintshire, and brother of Wilfrid Trubshaw, C.B.E.
[Epsom College 1882-1887]. He received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital.
Following his medical qualification, Kenneth Trubshaw joined his father in general
practice at Mold, Flintshire (1904). However, during the First World War he was
placed in charge of Leeswood Hall Military Hospital and this developed his interest in
surgery. In 1918, he passed the F.R.C.S. (Edin.) Examination and was appointed
Honorary Consultant Surgeon to the Chester Royal Infirmary (1919-1930). From
1931-1939 he was appointed Consultant Surgeon to Dolgellau Hospital, Merioneth.
HARRY LOFT EVANS (born 1876). M.B.E., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
Harry Loft Evans (born 1876) [Epsom College 1892-1895. prefect. Choir and
Elocution Prizes] was the son of Dr T. M. Evans of Hull, East Riding. He received his
medical training at St Thomas’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist
at Hull Infirmary, and Chairman of the East Yorkshire Division of the British Medical
Association.
FRANK COLEMAN (1876-1963). M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
F.D.S.R.C.S.
Frank Coleman (1876-1963) [Epsom College 1891-1893] was the son of Alfred
Coleman, F.R.C.S. of Sutton, Surrey. He received his medical training at St
Bartholomew’s, Charing Cross and the Royal Dental Hospitals. During the First
World War he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the R.A.M.C. in France and
Belgium, and was awarded the Military Cross (M.C.). He was appointed Dental
Surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital and the London Hospital for Children in 1903,
and Consultant Dental Surgeon to St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Consultant Dental
Surgeon and Lecturer in Materia Medica at the Royal Dental Hospital in 1907. He
was a Member of the Council of the British Dental Association, President of the
Metropolitan Branch of the British Dental Association, and a Foundation Fellow of
the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons. He was also President of
the Section of Odontology of the Royal Society of Medicine, and an Examiner in
Dental Surgery for the University of London and the Royal College of Surgeons. He
was the author of Materia Medica for Dentists (1933), which by 1936 had run to
seven editions.
SURGEON COMMANDER PERCY FRANCIS ALDERSON (18761954). R.N., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Eng.).
Percy Francis Alderson (1876-1954) [Epsom College 1888-1893. Carr Prize]
was the son of Dr F. H. Alderson of Hammersmith, London, and brother of the Rev.
Alexander George Jermyn Alderson [Epsom College 1892-1899]. He received his
medical training at the Middlesex Hospital, where he won the Obstetric Prize. After
joining the Royal Navy he served as Surgeon Commander on H.M.S. Defiance.
JAMES REGINALD ATKINSON (1876-1912). M.B., C.M. (Edin.),
F.F.P.S. (Glasgow), D.P.H. (Glasgow).
James Reginald Atkinson (1876-1912) [Epsom College 1887-1890] was the son
of Dr James Atkinson of Crewe, Cheshire, and brother of John Atkinson [Epsom
College 1887-1888]. He received his medical training at both Edinburgh and
Heidelberg Universities. During the Boer War he served as a Civil Surgeon with the
South African Field Force. He was appointed Consultant Surgeon to the Crewe
Memorial Hospital.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ARTHUR WILLIAM GATER (18771953). R.A.M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Arthur William Gater (1877-1953) [Epsom College 1891-1896. Rugby XV]
was the son John Gater, a farmer of Southampton. He received his medical training at
Guy’s Hospital. During the First World War he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel with
the R.A.M.C. in France and at Salonika. He was previously a House Surgeon at the
Southampton and Boscombe Hospitals. Further details not found.
HORACE GUY LANKESTER HAYNES (1877-1955). T.D., R.A.M.C.,
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Horace Guy Lankester Haynes (1877-1955) [Epsom College 1892-1896.
prefect. Rugby XV. Ann Hood Exhibition. Doncaster Gift Scholarship] was the son of
Frederick Harry Haynes, F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 1859-1862], and father of Major
William Noel Lankester Haynes, R.A.M.C. [Epsom College 1921-1929], and Major
Thomas Lankester Haynes, R.A. [Epsom College 1930-1934]. He won an Entrance
Scholarship to Epsom College and from there went on to Cambridge University as an
Exhibitioner of Downing College, where he took Honours in the Natural Science
Tripos, winning a University Scholarship to complete his medical training at the
Westminster Hospital. From 1908-1914 he was in general practice at Marksfield,
Leicestershire, and during the First World War he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in
thee R.A.M.C., Commanding the 84th Field Ambulance and later, the 2nd London
Field Ambulance on the Western Front. After the war he served as Chairman of the
Ministry of Labour and National Service Medical Board. He was also Medical
Superintendent and Resident Physician of Brentwood Mental Hospital. From 19261927 he was President of the Essex Branch of the British Medical Association,
Chairman of the mid-Essex Division of the B.M.A. (1930-1933), and an Honorary
Member of the Medico-Psychological Association.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CLIFFORD ALLCHIN GILL (18781916). I.M.S., K.H.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Eng.).
Clifford Allchin Gill (1878-1916) [Epsom College 1888-1890] was the son of
Dr H. C. Gill of York. He received his medical education at University College and
Westminster Hospitals. He was Director of Public Health for the Punjab, India,
Medical Officer to the 16th Bengal Cavalry, Indian Medical Service at Dera Ishmail
Khan, and an Honorary Surgeon to H.M. King George V. In 1928, he published The
Genesis of Epidemics and the Natural History of Disease. He died aged 40 years.
EDWARD FOW FISHER (1878-1948). M.B., F.R.C.S. (Edin.), M.R.C.P.
(Edin.), D.P.H.
Edward Fow Fisher (1878-1948) [Epsom College 1889-1896. MacFarlane Cup.
Watts Science Prize] was the son of Dr George Fisher of Shere, Surrey, and brother of
Dr Charles Fisher, M.D. [Epsom College 1888-1895]. He entered the London
Hospital with an Entrance Scholarship, and from there embarked on a course of
postgraduate study at Edinburgh University. Although initially in general practice at
Guildford, Surrey, he returned to Edinburgh as a Consultant Gynaecologist at the
Royal Public Dispensary, and the Deaconess Hospital. During the First World War he
served as a Surgeon in the Royal Navy (1914-1918), and was mentioned in
dispatches. He was a member of the United Hospitals Athletic team.
COLONEL HAROLD CHARLES WINCKWORTH (1878-1947).
A.M.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), L.D.S.
Harold Charles Winckworth (1878-1947) [Epsom College 1890-1894] was the
son of Dr C. T. Winckworth of Brighton, Sussex, and brother of Ronald Winckworth
[Epsom College 1896-1902]. He received his medical training at Guy’s Hospital. In
1904, he joined the R.A.M.C. and from 1914 to 1944 served as a Lieutenant at
Bombay and Poona, India. During the First World War he served in the Mesopotamia
Campaign (1916), where he gained distinction as a surgeon and was mentioned in
dispatches. In 1919, he served in the 3rd Afghan Campaign. He was gazetted Colonel
in 1933 and was appointed Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy of India. In 1908, he was
appointed an Officer of the Crown of Italy, and awarded the Order of a Chevalier of
the Crown of Italy for the assistance that he gave following the devastating
earthquake in Calabria and Sicily. “His medical talents brought him into intimate
contact with the Duke and Duchess of Connaught during His Royal Highness’s
Governorship of Malta.” In 1940 he was Officer in Charge of Colaba Hospital,
Bombay and the Officers Depot at Poona. A distinguished naturalist, his fine
collection of butterflies from South India, is now in the Hope Department at the
Oxford University Museum. He was also a noted authority on conchology.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALEXANDER CAMERON (1879-1932).
O.B.E., I.M.S., M.B. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Alexander Cameron (1879-1932) [Epsom College 1893-1897. Watts Science
Prize] was the son of Dr Alexander Cameron of Caistor, Norfolk, and brother of Dr
Donald Cameron [Epsom College 1906-1913]. He won an Entrance Scholarship to
Epsom College, before being awarded the Freer Lucas Entrance Scholarship to the
Middlesex Hospital. At the end of the clinical medicine course he won the prestigious
Senior Broderip Scholarship, and went on to win the Gold Medal for Medicine in the
University of London M.B. Examination. After medical qualification, he entered the
Indian Medical Service having been awarded the 1st Montefiore Medal and
Scholarship at the Army Medical School.
ERNEST WILLIAM STRANGE (1879-1969). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.D.
(Lond.).
Ernest William Strange (1879-1969) [Epsom College 1891-1897. prefect.
Sterry Prize] was the son of Dr Arthur Strange of Shrewsbury, and brother of Leonard
Francis Strange [Epsom College 1899-1902], and the Rev. Geoffrey Lionel Strange
[Epsom College 1899-1901]. He received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital,
and was appointed Obstetric Resident. During the First World War he served as a
Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1914-1918), in France and Belgium. After the War he was
appointed Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton,
and Staffordshire General Hospital. He was one of the first two anaesthetists to be
appointed in Wolverhampton at a time where the practice of anaesthesia was in its
infancy. “In his late seventies he continued to give anaesthetics and it caused him
much amusement when his many friends started referring to him as the senior
anaesthetist in the Commonwealth”. He was a Senior Fellow of the Association of
Anaesthetists of Great Britain, and a Life Member of the Midland Society of
Anaesthetists.
HENRY BEECHER JACKSON (1879-1946). M.A. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Henry Beecher Jackson (1879-1946) [Epsom College 1892-1898. prefect. Ann
Hood Exhibition. Propert Prize] was the son of Dr Thomas Jackson of Thornton
Heath, Surrey. He won an Entrance Scholarship to Epsom College and then an Open
Scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge. After this he won an Entrance Scholarship
to St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He served for a time as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the
Royal Navy, and on leaving the navy was appointed Coroner for Croydon, Surrey,
and then President of the Coroner’s Society of England.
HORACE BRYDEN HILL (1879-1955). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S.,
M.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Horace Bryden Hill (1879-1955) [Epsom College 1893-1898. prefect. Cricket
XI. Sterry, Watts Science and Harvey Prizes] was the son of Dr R. B. Hill of
Tywardreath, Cornwall. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s
Hospital, where not only was he an Entrance Scholar but also winner of the Du
Pasquier Scholarship. During the First World War he served as a Surgeon
Commander in the Royal Navy with the North Atlantic Fleet. He was Medical
Superintendent of Laverstock House Mental Hospital, Salisbury. Following the
earthquake in Sicily and Southern Italy in 1908 he was made an Officer of the Order
of the Crown of Italy (this was awarded in recognition of the valuable services he
rendered at the earthquake site). He was also made an Esquire of the Order of St John,
Cheval.
FREDERICK HERBERT WALLACE (born 1880). F.R.C.S. (Edin.),
L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Frederick Herbert Wallace (born 1880) [Epsom College 1892-1898] was the
son of Dr Frederick Wallace of Upper Clapton, South London. He received his
medical training at Guy’s Hospital and Edinburgh University. During the First World
War he served as Medical Officer in charge of the 44th French Hospital. He later
served as a Flying officer in the R.A.F. on the French Front, and on leaving H.M.
Forces was appointed Surgeon at Oakham Hospital, Rutland.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN MAURICE BISDÉE RAHILLY
(1880-1952). O.B.E., R.A.M.C., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
John Maurice Bisdée Rahilly (1880-1952) [Epsom College 1893-1899. prefect.
Rugby XV. Brande Prize] was the son of Surgeon Major J. R. Rahilly and brother of
Captain Denis Edward Rahilly, C.B.E. [Epsom College 1900-1902]. He was awarded
an Entrance Scholarship to St Mary’s Hospital, and after medical qualification joined
the R.A.M.C. He retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel having been twice
mentioned in despatches.
JOSEPH BARNES BURT (1880-1953). M.B., M.D. (Lond.), M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
John Barnes Burt (1880-1953) [Epsom College 1894-1897. Watts Science
Prize] was the son of Dr J. K. Burt of Kendal, Cumbria. At Epsom College he won an
Entrance Scholarship to University College Hospital. During the First World War he
served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C., in Mesopotamia 1917-1919. After the War he
was a Research Scholar, working with the Committee Investigating Special Diseases
at Cambridge University. He then specialised in Physical Medicine and was appointed
Consultant Physician at the Devonshire Hospital, Buxton, and later as Consultant
Physician at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath (1935-1946).
He was President of the Section of Physical Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine;
Chairman of the International Society of Medical Hydrology; Vice-President of the
Section of Physical Medicine, British Medical Association, and Chairman of the Bath
Division of the British Medical Association 1932-1933.
SURGEON REAR-ADMIRAL LEONARD WARREN (born 1880).
O.B.E., K.H.P., R.N., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Leonard Warren (born 1880) [Epsom College 1894-1899. Rugby XV] was the
son of Dr E. C. Warren of Gillingham, Kent. He was awarded an Entrance
Scholarship to the London Hospital, and after qualification was appointed Emergency
Officer at the hospital. During the First World War he served on the Hospital Ship
‘Agadir.’ He was appointed Honorary Physician to the King. No further details found.
COLONEL EDWARD BROWNING LATHBURY (1881-1945). O.B.E.,
M.D. (Brux.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Edward Browning Lathbury (1881-1945) [Epsom College 1898-1899] was the
son of Dr F. R. Lathbury of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, and brother of Frank
Herbert Lathbury, M.C. [Epsom College 1899-1901]. He received his medical training
at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Brussels University, where he passed the M.D.
(Brussels) with distinction. He Served as a Colonel in the R.A.M.C. in France and
Northern Russia, and was awarded the O.B.E. and twice mentioned in dispatches. He
was later appointed Officer Commanding a Military Hospital in Belgium. After the
War he was appointed Assistant Medical Officer to the General Accident Corporation
and Canadian Bank of Commerce.
HAROLD SUGDEN VIVIAN (1881-1954). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.O.M.S. (Lond.).
Harold Sugden Vivian (1881-1954) [Epsom College 1895-1900. prefect. Rugby
XV. Cricket XI. Ann Hood Exhibition] was the son of R. T. Vivian of Winchmore
Hill, Middlesex, and brother of Dr Charles St. Aubyn Vivian [Epsom College 18951901]. He was awarded the Freer Lucas Entrance Scholarship to the Middlesex
Hospital, and during the First World War served as a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C.
After the War he was appointed Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Grimsby
District Hospital and Louth District Hospital.
JOHN EDWARD LIONEL JOHNSTON (1881-1917). M.B., B.S. (Lond.),
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.T.M. & H.
John Edward Lionel Johnston (1881-1917) [Epsom College 1897-1898] was the
son of J. C. Johnston, civil engineer, of Hornsey, Middlesex, and brother of Dr
Charles Herbert Farley Johnston, M.D. [Epsom College 1897-1899]. He won an Open
Entrance Scholarship to St Mary’s Hospital, and following medical qualification
served as a Medical Officer with the West Africa Medical Service, and was seconded
as a special investigator in the Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa). He was a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine. During the First World War he
served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (Cameroons), but was lost at sea following
enemy action in November 1917. He was aged 36 years.
MAJOR ARTHUR GORDON CUMMINS (1881-1947). M.C., R.A.M.C.,
M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. (Queen’s Coll., Cork).
Arthur Gordon Cummins (1881-1947) [Epsom College 1895-1898] was the son
of Dr W. J. Cummins of Cork, Eire, and the brother of Colonel Ernest Jackson
Cummins, D.S.O. [Epsom College 1892-1894]. He received his medical education at
Queen’s College, Cork. He then joined the R.A.M.C. and served as a Major at the
Curragh Camp, County Kildare (1907). During the First World War he was awarded
the Military Cross. He later emigrated to the U.S.A and died in Florida in 1947.
MAJOR ALEXANDER EDWARD GORDON FRASER (1881-1956).
R.A.M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Alexander Edward Gordon Fraser (1881-1956) [Epsom College 1894-1898]
was the son of Dr D. A. Fraser of Bridgetown, South Devon. He received his medical
education at St Mary’s Hospital, and served as a Major in the R.A.M.C. No further
details known.
HENRY HOLROYD (1881-1932). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), D.P.H.
Henry Holroyd (1881-1932) [Epsom College 1896-1900. prefect. Rugby XV
(1898-1900). Watts Science Prize. Stone Scholarship. Jenks Memorial Scholarship]
was the son of Tom Holroyd, a book-keeper of Burnley, Lancashire. He received his
medical education at the Middlesex Hospital. During the First World War he served
as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. After the War he was appointed Assistant County
Medical Officer for Lancashire. He had been previously employed as Assistant
Medical Officer of Health for Herefordshire, and before that as Assistant Medical
Officer of Health for the City of Norwich.
DAVID WILSON (1881-1963). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
David Wilson (1881-1963) [Epsom College 1893-1901. Watts Science Prize]
was the son of Dr David Wilson of Huddersfield. He was awarded an Entrance
Scholarship to St Thomas’s Hospital. During the First World War he served as a
Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1914-1918), and was mentioned in dispatches. After the
War he was elected Secretary of the Huddersfield Division of the British Medical
Association, and was later appointed Honorary Ophthalmic Surgeon to Torbay,
Paignton, and Newton Abbot Hospitals.
WALTER ST. CLARE McCLURE (1881-1954). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), D.P.H. (Eng.).
Walter St. Clare McClure (1881-1954) [Epsom College 1895-1900. Rugby
XV. Cricket XI. MacFarlane Cup] was the son of Dr Thomas McClure of Whittington
Moor, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He received his medical training at University
College, London and the London Hospital. He was appointed Medical Officer of
Health for Withington, City of Manchester (1915-1946), with charge of the Infectious
Diseases Section of the Department. He was a Ministry of Health Adviser on
Smallpox. During the First World War he served as a Major in the R.A.M.C. in
France.
ERNEST LITTLETON SANDILAND (1881-1965). T.D., M.B., B.S.
(Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H.
Ernest Littleton Sandiland (1881-1965) [Epsom College 1893-1900. prefect]
was the son of Dr A. H. Sandiland of Southgate Road, North London, and brother of
Dr Digby Sayer Sandiland [Epsom College 1889-1895]. He was awarded an Entrance
Scholarship to the London Hospital, and during the First World War served as a
Captain in the R.A.M.C. attached to the Field Artillery. In the Second World War he
was a Lieutenant-Colonel. From 1921 to 1923 he served as Medical Superintendent of
Lenham Sanatorium and the Kettlewell Chest Hospital at Swanley, in Kent, and from
1924 until 1941, Consultant Chest Physician at the East Lancashire Tuberculosis
Colony, Barrowmore Hall. He was a Founder-Member and Vice-President of the S. E.
Metropolitan Tuberculosis Society, and President of the North-Western Tuberculosis
Society (1939).
ESPINE FRANCIS WARD (1882-1946). A.M.S., M.D., B.Ch., B.A.O.
(Belfast), F.R.C.S. (Ire.).
Espine Francis Ward (1882-1946) [Epsom College 1893-1901. Rugby XV.
Harvey Prize. Du Pasquier Scholarship] was the son of Surgeon Major Espine Ward,
and brother of Oswald Campbell Ward [Epsom College 1896-1899], and William
Robert Ward, O.B.E. [Epsom College 1898-1905]. He received his medical education
at Belfast University, and Coombe Hospital, Dublin. During the First World War
served as a surgeon with the rank of Major with the African Medical Service
(Cameroon). He was later appointed Surgeon with the West African Medical Service.
HENRY JOY CLARKE (1882-1915). M.A. (Cantab.), M.B., B.Ch.
(Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Henry Joy Clarke (1882-1915) [Epsom College 1894-1900] was the son of Dr
J. H. Clarke of Doncaster, and brother of the Rev. Alexander Dalton Clarke [Epsom
College 1899-1901], and John Spottiswoode Clarke [Epsom College 1900-1906]. He
received his medical education at Trinity College, Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital,
and was appointed Honorary Consultant Surgeon at Doncaster Royal Infirmary.
COLONEL LESLIE LEWIS CLAYTON REYNOLDS (1882-1974).
D.S.O., T.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.L., J.P.
Leslie Lewis Clayton Reynolds (1882-1974) [Epsom College 1894-1901.
prefect. Brande Prize] was the son of Dr L. W. Reynolds, J.P. [Epsom College 18701872] of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. He received his medical training at
Guy’s Hospital. During the First World War he served as a Brigadier in the Oxford
and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and was awarded the D.S.O. with bar, the Croix
de Guerre avec Palmes, and the Italian Silver Medal for Valour. He was mentioned in
despatches 5 times. From 1916 he was promoted to Colonel, in command of the
Buckinghamshire Batallion of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry in Belgium,
France and Italy. During the Second World War he was placed in command of the
South Buckinghamshire Home Guard. After the War he was appointed Senior
Consultant Surgeon at High Wycombe War Memorial Hospital, Chairman of the
Magistrates, Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Buckinghamshire, and a Freeman of
the Borough of Chepping Wycombe.
MAJOR CLAUDE HAROLD CROSS (1882-1944). I.M.S., M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Claude Harold Cross (1882-1944) [Epsom College 1896-1900. Entrance
Scholarship. prefect. Rugby XV. Cricket XI. Engledue Essay Prize] was the son of Dr
John Cross of Stanhope Terrace, North London. He was awarded an Entrance
Scholarship to St Bartholomew’s Hospital. After medical qualification he joined the
Indian Medical Service with the rank of Major. Further details not known.
ERNEST BERESFORD KEEN (1882-1925). L.M.S.S.A.
Ernest Beresford Keen (1882-1925) [Epsom College 1896-1900] was the son of
Dr William Keen of Chelsea, London. He received his medical training at Charing
Cross Hospital. During the First World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C.
He was Officer in Charge of the X-ray and Electro-Therapy Departments of the
Millbank Military Hospital, the British Expeditionary Force and King George
Hospitals. After the War he was appointed Honorary Radiologist at Chelsea
Infirmary.
JAMES RICHARD HENRY TURTON (1883-1977). M.B., B.S. (Lond.),
F.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.), L.R.C.P. (Eng.), J.P.
James Richard Henry Turton (1883-1977) [Epsom College 1896-1902. prefect.
English Literature and Watts Science Prizes] was the son of James Turton, F.R.C.S. of
Brighton, Sussex. He won an Entrance Scholarship to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and
during the First World War served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy, on
ships attached to the Grand Fleet. After the War he was appointed Senior Consultant
Surgeon at Brighton. He served as a Representative of the Royal Colleges and the
British Medical Association on the Governmental Spens Committee that fixed the
remuneration of consultants in hospital practice (1947). He was also a Member of the
Regional Board of South-East Metropolitan Area, Chairman of the Mid-Sussex
Hospital Management Committee, and President of the Brighton and Sussex MedicoChirurgical Society. He served as J.P. for Brighton.
JOHN WEBSTER BRIDE (1883-1963). M.D. (Manchester), M.D. (London),
M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.B., Ch.B. (Manchester), F.R.C.O.G. (Eng.).
John Webster Bride (1883-1963) [Epsom College 1897-1902. Rugby XV. Jenks
Memorial Scholarship. Dauntsey Medical Scholarship] was the son of Dr John Bride
of Wilmslow, Cheshire. He received his medical training at Manchester and London
Universities. During the First World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C.
(1914-1918) at Gallipoli, Egypt, France, and Salonika. After the War he was
appointed Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Manchester University, and
Honorary Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist to St Mary’s Hospital, and
Manchester North Hospitals. In 1937 he was President of the North of England
Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, and in 1953 he delivered the 7th William
Meredith Fletcher Shaw Lecture at the Royal College of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists.
RUPERT FARRANT (1883-1921). M.C., F.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Rupert Farrant (1883-1921) [Epsom College 1897-1901. Jenks Memorial
Scholarship] was the son of Dr Samuel Farrant of Taunton, Somerset. He was
awarded an Entrance Scholarship to the Westminster Hospital. As a Captain in the
R.A.M.C. (1914-1918) he saw active service at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and France,
where he gained the Military Cross. During the First World War, and while still in
France, he was elected to the honorary consultant staff at the Westminster Hospital as
Assistant Surgeon, and later as Consultant Surgeon. “He was especially interested in
endocrinology and pursued a great deal of research in the laboratories of University
College on thyroid function in health and disease. His assiduity in the collection and
examination of thyroids from cases of disease of all kinds from asylums and hospitals
was remarkable. He formulated a theory of a correlated cycle of changes in the
histological appearance and functional activity of the thyroid gland under the
influence of toxins, and was particularly interested in the relationship between thyroid
deficiency and insanity.” He was a Hunterian Lecturer at the Royal College of
Surgeons. In 1921, he took his own life after suffering shell shock and depression in
World War One. He was 38 years old.
PROFESSOR ALFRED RICHARDSON (1884-1934). M.B., B.S. (Lond.),
F.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Alfred Richardson (1884-1934) [Epsom College 1897-1903. prefect. Captain of
Rugby XV. Cricket XI. MacFarlane Cup. Watts Science Prize. Jenks Memorial
Scholarship] was the son of Dr R. T. Richardson of Leeds. He received his medical
training at Leeds and London Universities, graduating M.B., B.S. (Lond.) with
Distinction in Pharmacology and Honours in Medicine. During the First World War
he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1915-1918) at a hospital in France. After the
War he was appointed Demonstrator in Surgical Pathology and Surgical Tutor at
Leeds University, and Consultant Surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary and the
Northern General Hospital. He was also Surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions Hospital.
In 1933, he was appointed Professor of Clinical Surgery at Leeds University. “In his
operative work he combined a perfect and delicate technique with a rare judgement,
which enabled him to carry through, with safety and success, operations often of great
difficulty”. He won the Bronze Medal at the Public Schools Gymnastics Competions,
Aldershot (1903).
RICHARD STOPFORD TAYLOR [now STOPFORD-TAYLOR]
(1884-1964). D.S.O., M.B., Ch.B. (Liverpool), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).
Richard Stopford Taylor (1884-1964) [Epsom College 1897-1898] was the son
of Dr G. G. S. Taylor of Liverpool, and brother of John Stopford Taylor [Epsom
College 1895-1897]. He received his medical education at Liverpool University. At
the outset of the First World War he served with a field ambulance in Gallipoli, Egypt
and France. He served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C. and was awarded the
D.S.O. and mentioned in dispatches. After the War he was appointed a Lecturer in
Dermatology at Liverpool University, and then Consultant Dermatologist at Liverpool
Royal Infirmary and the Liverpool Children’s Hospital. In 1943, he was President of
the British Association of Dermatology, and in 1944, President of the Liverpool
Medical Institution (1944). He was holder of the Thelwell Thomas Fellowship in
Medicine (1910-1911), and Holt Fellowship in Pathology, Liverpool University
(1911-1912). It was said of him that: “He learnt dermatology when it was mainly an
art…his sympathetic inquiries probably elicited more knowledge of the patient as a
whole than we ordinarily obtain nowadays”. He was a member of the Liverpool
University Rugby XV.
GEORGE ERNEST NELIGAN (1884-1956). M.C., M.A. (Oxon.), B.M.,
Ch.B. (Oxon.), L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
George Ernest Neligan (1884-1956) [Epsom College 1898-1903. Entrance
Scholarship. prefect. Cricket XI. Brande, Engledue Essay and Ann Hood Prizes.
Doncaster Gift Scholarship] was the son of J. W. Neligan, a landowner of Pendarren,
Tavistock, Devon, and brother of Launcelot Victor Neligan [Epsom College 19011904]. He was an Exhibitioner (Natural Sciences) of Exeter College, University of
Oxford, and was then awarded an Entrance Scholarship to the London Hospital.
During the First World War he served as a Major in the R.A.M.C. (1914-1918) in
France, with field ambulances and a clearing station, and received the Military Cross
in 1916. After the War he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the London Hospital
(1921); Consultant Surgeon and Medical Superintendent in 1939, and it was largely
due to George Neligan’s influence that the Department of Urology at the London
Hospital was founded. From 1941-1942 he was President of the Section of Urology of
the Royal Society of Medicine. He was an eminent Freemason and a Senior Grand
Deacon.
SURGEON COMMANDER GERALD ROCHE McCOWEN (born
1885). O.B.E., R.N., M.D., C.M. (McGill U.), L.M.S.S.A.
Gerald Roche McCowen (born 1885) [Epsom College 1901-1903] was the son
of J. R. McCowen, Inspector-General of Police, Newfoundland. He received his
medical education at St Mary’s Hospital and McGill University, Canada. During the
First World War he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C., and after the
War he worked as the Superintendent of the Physiology department at the Chemical
Warfare Experimental Station, Porton Down, in Wiltshire.
MAJOR DOUGLAS GORDON EVANS (born 1885). M.C., M.B., B.S.
(Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Douglas Gordon Evans (born 1885) [Epsom College 1899-1903] was the son of
Dr W. T. Evans of Gloucester Terrace, London. He was awarded an Entrance
scholarship to the London Hospital and McGill University, Canada. During the First
World War he served as a Major in the R.A.M.C. and was awarded the Military
Cross. After the War he was appointed Medical Superintendent of the Children’s
Memorial Hospital, Montreal, Canada.
CLAUDE WOODHAM MORRIS (1885-1968). O.B.E., M.B., B.S.
(Durham), D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S.
Claude Woodham Morris (1885-1968) [Epsom College 1901-1902] was the son
of Dr John Edward Morris of Gosberton, Lincolnshire [Epsom College 1856-1859].
He received his medical education at University College Hospital and Durham
University. In the First World War he served as one of the youngest Surgeon
Commanders at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, and was awarded the O.B.E. for
distinguished service. After the war he was appointed Anaesthetist at the Cancer
Hospital (now the Royal Marsden Hospital), before returning to University College
Hospital as Consultant Anaesthetist. He was one of the two original examiners for the
Diploma in Anaesthesia of the Royal College of Surgeons. His maxim was “When
dealing with an unusual case, use a method with which you are thoroughly familiar”.
Apart from his appointment at University College Hospital, he was Consultant
Anaesthetist at the Royal Free Hospital, and the West Herts Hospital, Hemel
Hempstead. Claude Morris specialised in anaesthetics at a time when the specialty
was virtually unknown as such and practised by only a handful of doctors.
JOHN ATHELSTAN BRAXTON HICKS (1885-1935). M.D., B.S.
(Lond.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.), D.P.H. (Cantab.).
John Athelstan Braxton Hicks (1885-1935) [Epsom College 1895-1902. Rugby
XV] was the son of A. B. Hicks, barrister-at-law, of Lupus Street, Westminster. He
received his medical training at the Westminster Hospital, graduating M.B., B.S. with
Honours in Pathology. During the First World War he served as a Lieutenant in the
R.A.M.C. (1914-1918), and was placed in Charge of the Bacteriology Laboratory at
the royal Herbert Military Hospital, Woolwich. After the War he was appointed
Reader in Pathology and Director of the Pathological Laboratories, at the Westminster
Hospital Medical School, University of London. He was also the Pathologist in charge
of the Group Laboratories of the London County Council, and Pathologist to the
Seamen’s Hospital, Greenwich. It was said of him: “As a teacher he was highly
valued by students. From him they learned far more than mere pathological details.
They learned something of the philosophical basis of medicine and a great deal about
their fellow men and of the world in which they were to practise.”
ARTHUR CECIL BARKER BIGGS (born 1885). M.C., F.R.C.S. (Eng.),
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Cantab.).
Arthur Cecil Barker Biggs (born 1885) [Epsom College 1897-1902] was the son
of Dr J. M. Biggs of Childs Hill, North London, and brother of Air Vice-Marshal
Kenneth Biggs, C.B.E., M.C. [Epsom College 1903-1908], and Maurice Crosier
Biggs, M.C. [Epsom College 1907-1910]. He received his medical training at
University College Hospital. During the First World War he served as a Captain in
the R.A.M.C. (1914-1918) with distinction, and was awarded the Military Cross. His
citation stated that “He supervised the removal of the wounded under very heavy fire
during two days operations. It was due to his extraordinary energy that the battlefield
was always kept clear of the wounded in-spite of very adverse conditions.” After the
War he was appointed Orthopaedic Surgeon, Ministry of Pensions, but later emigrated
to New Zealand. Further details not found.
LEONARD HERBERT TAYLOR (1885-1971). T.D., M.B., B.S. (Lond.),
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Leonard Herbert Taylor (1885-1971) [Epsom College 1897-1904. Rugby XV]
was the son of Dr Herbert Taylor [Epsom College 1862-1867] of Maidstone, Kent,
and father of Kenneth Herbert Taylor, F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 1928-1933], and
David Charlton Taylor, M.C. [Epsom College 1934-1939]. He received his medical
training at Charing Cross Hospital. After medical qualification he started in general
practice at Kennington Park Road, South London, but he then emigrated and was
appointed as Medical Officer for the Kelantan Government, Federated Malay States,
where he was stationed at Khota Bharu. During the First World War (1917-1918), he
served as a Major (Surgical Specialist) in the R.A.M.C. in France and Mesopotamia;
and from 1920-1930 as Brevet Colonel. He was President of the Old Epsomian Club
and a member of the Epsom College Council.
SURGEON REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES FOX OCTAVIUS
SANKEY (1885-1957). C.B.E., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Charles Fox Octavius Sankey (1885-1957) [Epsom College 1896-1903. Modern
History, English Literature, and Brande Essay Prizes. Ann Hood Exhibition. Epsom
College Council Exhibition] was the son of Dr W. A. C. O. Sankey of Baschurch,
Shropshire, and father of Dr Arthur Octavius Sankey [Epsom College 1933-1938]. He
won an Entrance Scholarship to Epsom College, and went on to be awarded an
Entrance Scholarship to St Thomas’s Hospital, where he won the Mead Medal and
Toller Prizes for Medicine and Pathology. During the First World War he served as a
Surgeon Commander in the Royal Navy, in Togoland, Cameroons, and the North Sea.
BERNARD GRELLIER (1886-1957). M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
D.M.R.E. (Cantab.), L.D.S.
Bernard Grellier (1886-1957) [Epsom College 1897-1904. Stone Scholarship]
was the son of H. M. Grellier, a surveyor of Epsom, Surrey, brother of Gordon Harley
Grellier [Epsom College 1897-1902], and the twin brother of Norman Grellier, M.C.
[Epsom College 1897-1904]. He was awarded an Entrance Scholarship to Charing
Cross and the Royal Dental Hospitals. During the First World War he served as a
Captain in the R.A.M.C., on the Western Front and later in Afghanistan, attached to
the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He was appointed Director of the French Protestant
Hospital and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry at Ypres. He again served
in the R.A.M.C. with the rank of Major during the Second World War (1941-1945).
After the War he was appointed Consultant Radiologist at the Royal East Sussex
Hospital. He was Chairman of the Hastings Division of the British Medical
Association (1951-1952). Together with his twin brother, Norman, Bernard Grellier
had a mutual interest in flying. Both brothers obtained their ‘A’ licences in 1933 and
regarded flying as a week-end pastime that included aerobatics and stunt flying. In
1936, Norman was piloting their Gypsy Moth with Bernard as passenger. The aircraft
stalled at 100 feet and crashed in a field at the top of Hythe Hill, Kent. Both brothers
were seriously injured, Norman sustaining a fractured skull, but on recovery they
immediately resumed their flying.
NORMAN GRELLIER (1886-1949). M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
L.D.S., D.M.R.E. (Cantab.).
Norman Grellier (1886-1949) [Epsom College 1897-1904] was the son of H. M.
Grellier, a surveyor of Epsom, Surrey, brother of Gordon Harley Grellier [Epsom
College 1897-1902], and the identical twin brother of Bernard Grellier, M.C. [Epsom
College 1897-1904]. He received his medical education at Charing Cross and Royal
Dental Hospitals. During the First World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C.
(1914-1918), and during the Second World War as a Major in the R.A.M.C. (19411945) attached to a Grenadier Guards Battalion. He was awarded the Military Cross
for gallantry at Passchendaele, and was mentioned in dispatches. After the War he
was appointed Consultant Radiologist at the Royal East Sussex Hospital and the
Municipal Hospital at Hastings.
GEORGE HERBERT GARLICK (1886-1958). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), D.M.R.E. (Cantab.).
George Herbert Garlick (1886-1958) [Epsom College 1898-1905] was the son
of Dr George Garlick of Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, brother of William
Gilbert Peterkin Garlick [Epsom College 1904-1908], and father of Dr George
Granby Garlick [Epsom College 1934-1938]. He was awarded an Entrance
Scholarship to St Mary’s Hospital. In 1917, George Garlick was appointed Assistant
Principal Medical Officer to the Johore Government in Malaya, at a time when he was
one of the only three medical officers in Johore State. In 1930, he was appointed
Principal Medical Officer, a position which he held until 1942. During his service in
Johore he was responsible for developing a modern nurses’ training school and the
building of a first-class modern hospital. In recognition of his valuable services he
was accorded the title of Dato – an honour given him by the Sultan of Johore.
Radiology became one of his special interests and he took the Cambridge D.M.R.E. in
1927. During the Second World War he served as a radiologist in the British Army
and was interned as a prisoner of war in Changi Gaol. Serving with the British
Military Administration after the war, he re-established civil radiology at the Kandang
Kerbau Hospital, and in 1948, after a period as medical officer in charge, he was
appointed Consultant Radiologist to the General Hospital, Singapore. He was also
Medical Director of the Singapore Anti-tuberculosis Association.
COLONEL HUBERT HORAN BROWN (born 1886). I.M.S., B.A., M.B.,
B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.T.M. & H. (Eng.).
Hubert Horan Brown (born 1886) [Epsom College 1899-1904] was the son of
Dr J. W. H. Brown of Roundhay, Leeds. He left Epsom College for Gonville and
Caius College, Cambridge, and then moved to Leeds University for his clinical
training. He graduated with Honours in the B.A. Examination (Leeds). During the
First World War he served as a Major in the R.A.M.C., as D.A.D.M.S. in France,
Mesopotamia, Palestine and Egypt. He then joined the Indian Medical Service and
was mentioned in despatches three times. He was awarded the Order of the Nile.
JOHN HOWARD OWEN (born 1886). M.D., B.S. (Durham).
John Howard Owen (born 1886) [Epsom College 1902-1903] was the son of Dr
J. M. Owen of Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, and father of Dr David Norman Howell
Owen [Epsom College 1939-1943]. He received his medical training at Guy’s
Hospital and Durham University. During the First World War he served as a Captain
in the R.A.M.C. (1914-1919), in Belgium and France. After the War he was appointed
Medical Officer of Health for Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire R.D., Honorary
Radiologist for the County Hospital at Haverfordwest, and Public Vaccinator and
Poor Law Medical Officer for Haverfordwest.
ALFRED ARTHUR EDMUND NEWTH (1887-1958). O.B.E., M.B., B.S.
(Lond.), L.M.S.S.A., D.P.H. (Oxon.).
Alfred Arthur Edmund Newth (1887-1958) [Epsom College 1903-1906] was the
son of Dr A. H. Newth of Hayward’s Heath, Sussex. He was awarded an Entrance
Scholarship to the Westminster Hospital, where he won the Sturges Prize. During the
First World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1914-1918) in France, and
after the War was appointed Assistant School Medical Officer for the City of
Nottingham (1914-1954), and Senior School Medical Officer for the City of
Nottingham (from 1923-1954). He was an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Medical
Officers of Health, President of the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society, and
Vice-President of the Section of Child Health at the British Medical Association
Annual Meeting in Harrogate (1949). His especial interest was in ‘handicapped
pupils,’ and in 1945 he was appointed by the Minister of Education to serve on the
Advisory Committee on Handicapped Pupils. His pioneering work led to the
establishment of Child Guidance Clinics throughout the country. In 1952 he was
awarded the O.B.E., an honour “he well deserved, for he had made himself one of the
experts in the work of the school health service”.
ARCHIBALD FERGUSON (1887-1936). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Eng.).
Archibald Ferguson (1887-1936) [Epsom College 1901-1905. prefect. Captain
of the Rugby XV. Captain of the Hockey XI. MacFarlane Cup – twice. Watts Science
and Hodgkin Prizes] was the son of Dr J. M. Ferguson of Burnley, Lancashire, and
father of Squadron Leader John Murray Ferguson, R.A.F. [Epsom College 19291934]. He was awarded an Entrance Scholarship to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and
during the First World War served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C., in India and Italy.
After the War, he was appointed Medical Officer of Health for the metropolitan
borough of Stepney, as well as Tuberculosis Consultant to St Peter’s Hospital,
Stepney.
AIR COMMODORE HUGH LEONARD BURTON (born 1887).
K.H.P., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), D.P.H. (Eng.).
Hugh Leonard Burton (born 1887) [Epsom College 1899-1905. Sterry and Carr
Prizes. Du Pasquier Scholarship] was the son of Dr L. W. Burton Burton-on-Trent,
Staffordshire. At Epsom College he was awarded an Entrance Scholarship to King’s
College Hospital, where he won the Class Prizes for Surgery and Medicine. During
the First World War he served with the R.A.M.C. in Belgium and France. He later
joined the R.A.F. Medical Service and was promoted to the rank of Air Commodore.
He was an Honorary Physician to H.M. the King. No further details found.
FFRANGCON ROBERTS (1888-1974). M.A., M.D. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.F.R., D.M.R.E.
Frangcon Roberts (1888-1974) [Epsom College 1902-1907. prefect. Epsom
College Council Exhibition. De Havilland Exhibition] was the son of Dr R. P. Roberts
of Bethesda, Caernarvonshire. He won an Open Scholarship to Clare College,
Cambridge, where he took First Class Honours in both parts of the Natural Science
Tripos, and was co-author of two papers on the dissociation of haemoglobin. He then
won an Entrance Scholarship to St Thomas’s Hospital. While he was at St Thomas’s
he was elected to a fellowship at Clare College, Cambridge, and in 1913 returned
there as supervisor of medical students and University Demonstrator in physiology.
For his M.D. thesis on the reaction of degeneration in muscle he won the HortonSmith prize. He was an Examiner in Physiology for the Royal College of Surgeons
and Cambridge University, a Founder Fellow of the Faculty of Radiologists, and a
Member of the Science Committee of the British Medical Association. During the
First World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. with a field ambulance at
Salonika, and then at the 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge, in charge of nerve
injuries. At Salonika there was so little work to do that he produced The Mikado with
an all-male cast for performance at neighbouring camps. Returning to Cambridge in
1918, he wrote papers on the cerebral circulation and his first book, A Synopsis of
Physiology. Later on he was a member of the Royal Society Expedition to Mount
Rosa to study mountain sickness. In 1925 he returned to radiology and was appointed
to the staff of Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, eventually becoming an examiner
for the D.M.R.E. In 1939 he rejoined the R.A.M.C. with the rank of major. In 1944 he
resigned from Addenbrooke’s Hospital to return to the subject of medical education
and medicopolitics. He wrote a series of articles on the N.H.S. that attracted much
attention. He assembled his views in The Cost of Health, published in 1952. He also
wrote Medical Terms, Their Origin and Construction, which reached five editions,
and Good English for Medical Writers, published in 1960, which has been translated
into Japanese. A member of the British Medical Association since 1923, he served on
its Journal Committee.
EVELYN DENNIS SCOTT (1888-1978). O.B.E., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.D.
(Lond), M.R.C.P. (Lond.).
Evelyn Dennis Scott (1888-1978) [Epsom College 1903-1906] was the son of
Dr A. S. Scott of Brighton, Sussex, and brother of Dr Philip Dennis Scott [Epsom
College 1905-1909]. He received his medical training at Guy’s Hospital, and was
appointed Consultant Physician to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, the Sussex
Throat and Ear Hospital, and the King Edward VII Hospital, Haywards Heath. He was
also Consultant Paediatrician to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children,
Brighton. As a boy, he lost an eye as the result of injury, and his attempts at joining
one of the services in the First World War were thwarted. However, he was eventually
accepted by the Royal Navy and he served first in a hospital at Dunkirk, and then in
charge of Queen Mary’s Royal Naval Hospital, Southend.
ARTHUR BARRETT CARDEW (born 1888). O.B.E., M.C., Kt.O.St.J.,
M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).
Arthur Barrett Cardew (born 1888) [Epsom College 1901-1906. Senior Entrance
Scholarship. Latin Prose Prize] was the son of Dr G. A. Cardew of Cheltenham. He
received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital, and during the First World
War served as a Major in the R.A.M.C. (1914-1918), as a Surgical Specialist at 73
General Hospital, British Expeditionary Force in France. After the War he was
appointed Medical Officer of Health for Charlton Kings U.D., Gloucestershire, and
Medical Officer for Charlton Kings Infant Welfare Clinic. He was an Honorary Life
Member of the St John Ambulance Association, and a Knight of grace of the Order of
St John.
GEORGE EDGAR SEPTIMUS WARD (1888-1969). M.D. (Lond.), B.S.,
F.R.C.P. (Lond.), Hon.F.F.R.
George Edgar Septimus Ward (1888-1969) [Epsom College 1901-1906. Watts
Science Prize] was the son of Dr W. J. C. Ward of Harrogate, Yorkshire, and brother
of Dr Ronald Francis Campbell Ward, M.D. [Epsom College 1889-1894], Oswald
Campbell Ward [Epsom College 1896-1899], and Alexander Ivan Ward, M.B.E.
[Epsom College 1899-1902]. He was awarded the Freer Lucas Entrance Scholarship
to the Middlesex Hospital. In 1913, while a registrar at the Middlesex Hospital he was
put in charge of the first electrocardiograph to be installed at the hospital. During the
First World War he served as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the Royal Navy (1916-1919) at
Haslar Hospital, and after the war was appointed Assistant Physician and Physician in
charge of the Cardiographic Department at the Middlesex Hospital, and later,
Consultant Physician at the Middlesex Hospital. He was an Examiner for the
University of London and the Royal College of Physicians, and later a Censor of the
Royal College of Physicians. George Ward was a dynamic teacher of medicine and
was remembered as “a tall, lean figure, impeccably dressed and always with a wing
collar. Although he was in charge of the Cardiology Department he had a wide
interest and students on his firm were not restricted to cardiac problems. They all had
impressed on them how to elicit physical signs and he frequently used anecdotes to
illustrate his teachings. His knowledge of rare diseases was encyclopaedic”. He made
some original observations on the heart in anaesthesia and on penicillin in bacterial
endocarditis.
BERNARD CONSTABLE MAYBURY (1888-1953). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), M.B., B.S. (Lond), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Bernard Constable Maybury (1888-1953) [Epsom College 1901-1905] was the
son of Dr A. V. Maybury of Portsmouth. He won an Entrance Scholarship to St
Thomas’s Hospital, where he graduated M.B., B.S. with honours in surgery. He also
won the Musgrove Scholarship and Gold Medal, the Treasurer’s Gold Medal, the
Cheselden medal for surgery and anatomy, and a Scholarship for Anatomy. From
1913 to 1915 he was Resident Assistant Surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital, but he then
entered the R.A.M.C. as a Captain (Surgeon Specialist), serving in France and Italy
with No 9 Casualty Clearing Station. After the War he was appointed Consultant
Surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital, Purley Hospital and Queen Alexandra’s Hospital,
Worthing, holding these appointments until 1948. Together with Sir Cuthbert
Wallace, he founded the Professorial Surgical Unit at St Thomas’s Hospital. “His skill
as an operator was quite remarkable – he never made an unnecessary movement and
appeared unhurried and deliberate; in fact he was a very rapid operator. A profound
and critical thinker, he was scrupulous in his attention to detail. When faced with an
unusual or difficult clinical problem he was at his best.” During the Second World
War he served as a Surgeon at St Thomas’s and Park Prewett Hospitals.
BRIGADIER ROY KYFFIN MALLAM (1888-1969). O.B.E., M.C.,
R.A.M.C., M.B., B.S. (Lond.).
Roy Kyffin Mallam (1888-1969) [Epsom College 1901-1905. Entrance
Scholarship. Ann Hood Exhibition] was the son of Dr G. B. Mallam of Sparsholt,
Wantage, Oxfordshire, and brother of Clifford Angus Mallam, M.C. [Epsom College
1901-1909]. He was awarded an Entrance Scholarship to the London Hospital. During
the Second World War he served as a Brigadier in the R.A.M.C. (1941-1945) in
Mesopotamia and East Persia (Iran), was awarded the M.C., and was mentioned in
dispatches. Further details not known.
ARTHUR MADDOCK JONES (1889-1961). T.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.).
Arthur Maddock Jones (1889-1961) [Epsom College 1902-1908. prefect. Rugby
XV. Watts Science Prize] was the son of Dr Richard Jones of Blaenau Festiniog,
North Wales. He was awarded an Entrance Scholarship to Charing Cross Hospital.
During the First World War he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Welch
Fusiliers and then the R.A.M.C. (1914-1915) in Egypt, Gallipoli, Salonika and the
Caucasus. He was awarded the Star, and was twice mentioned in dispatches. After the
War he went into general practice at Bala, Merioneth, and later at Llandudno, North
Wales. He was also Medical Officer of Health for Bala Union and Penllyn Rural
District Council, Medical Referee for the Directors of Migration in the British
Empire, and Medical Referee for the Ministry of Pensions.
DANIEL DAVIES GORDON EVANS (born 1889). M.C., M.A., M.D.,
B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.O.M.S.
Daniel Davies Gordon Evans (born 1889) [Epsom College 1904-1908. Captain
of the Rugby XV. Cricket XI] was the son of Dr Evan Evans of Llanelly, South
Wales. He received his medical education at King’s College, Cambridge, and St
Bartholomew’s Hospital. During the First World War he served as a Captain in the
R.A.M.C. He specialised in ophthalmology and was initially appointed Clinical
Assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and the Central London
Ophthalmic Hospital, before an appointment as Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Waterloo
Hospital for Women and Children. He was then appointed Honorary Ophthalmic
Surgeon at the Victoria Hospital, Southend, and Ophthalmic Surgeon for the County
Borough of Southend Education Authority.
MAURICE HOLDSWORTH BARTON (1889-1973). M.C., L.R.C.P.
(Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).
Maurice Holdsworth Barton (1889-1973) [Epsom College 1902-1908. prefect.
Rugby XV] was the son of Dr G. H. Barton of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, and
brother of Henry Reyner Barton [Epsom College 1906-1910]. He received his medical
training at University College Hospital. During the First World War he served as a
Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1914-1918) in France and Belgium, as battalion medical
officer with the 2/5 Leicesters, and was awarded the Military Cross. After the War he
was appointed Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist, Leicester Royal Infirmary (19231954). He was a Member of the Ophthalmic Society of the U.K.
GERALD KESSICK BOWES (1890-1955). M.A., M.D. (Oxon.), M.R.C.S.
(Eng.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.), D.M., D.P.H. (Eng.).
Gerald Kessick Bowes (1890-1955) [Epsom College 1901-1909. prefect. Epsom
Scholarship. Da Silva Exhibition. Hodgkin, Brande and Watts Science Prizes] was the
son of Dr Charles Kessick Bowes, M.D. of Herne Bay, Kent [Epsom College 18731881]. He won an Open Scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated B.A.
with First Class Honours in physiology. He completed his medical training at St
Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he was awarded the Theodore Williams Scholarship
in Physiology, and the Senior Scholarship in Anatomy and Physiology. During the
First World War he served as medical officer at the 1st London General Hospital.
After the War he was appointed Assistant County Medical Officer of Health for
Wiltshire (1921-1924), then Assistant Medical Officer of Health for City of
Birmingham (1924-1928), and finally, Medical Officer of Health for Bedford (19281954).
McCORMACK CHARLES FARRELL EASMON (1890-1972). O.B.E.,
M.B., M.D. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.T.M. & H. (Eng.).
McCormack Charles Farrell Easmon (1890-1972) [Epsom College 1903-1907.
Rugby XV. Epsom College Council Exhibition] was the son of Dr J. F. Easmon of
Accra, Gold Coast Colony (Ghana). He won an Entrance Scholarship to St Mary’s
Hospital. Charles Easmon fought against racial discrimination in the Sierra Leone
medical service for many years. When he first returned to his native Sierra Leone in
1913, he was refused a post in the West African Medical Service because of his
colour. At that time there were two categories of doctors – Europeans in the “Colonial
Service” and Africans in the “Local Service”. Dr Easmon was forced into the separate
and lower category as a Country Hospital Native Medical Officer. His campaign
against racial discrimination earned the antipathy of the British authorities who called
him the “Yellow Peril.” During World War One he served in the army as a medical
officer in the Cameroon Campaign. After the war he served in a variety of medical
posts and became profoundly interested in the customs and traditions of the native
people. He founded the Sierra Leone Museum in 1958, becoming its first curator. He
was a director of the Bank of Sierra Leone, Chairman of the Monuments and Relics
Committee, and he presided over the declaration of twenty national historic sites. In
1954 he was awarded the O.B.E.
AIR VICE-MARSHAL KENNETH BIGGS (born 1890). C.B.E., M.C.,
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Cantab.), K.H.P.
Kenneth Biggs (born 1890) [Epsom College 1903-1908] was the son of Dr J. M.
Biggs of Child’s Hill, North London, and brother of Arthur Cecil Barker Biggs, M.C.
[Epsom College 1897-1902], and Maurice Crosier Biggs, M.C. [Epsom College 19071910]. He received his medical education at the London Hospital. After medical
qualification, he joined the R.A.M.C. with the rank of Captain, but later left that
service to join the R.A.F. Medical Service. He was appointed Principal Medical
Officer, Headquarters Air Command, South East Asia, and before that Deputy
Principal Medical Officer (Hygiene), Coastal Area, R.A.F. Medical Service. He was
an Honorary Physician to King George V.
JAMES HALES PARRY (1890-1947). B.A. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.).
James Hales Parry (1890-1947) [Epsom College 1903-1907] was the son of Dr
George Hales Parry of Docking, Norfolk. He received his medical education at St
John’s College Cambridge, and Guy’s Hospital. During the First World War he
served as a Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service, and after the War he took the
Certificate of Tropical Medicine (London) (1920), and was appointed Senior Medical
Officer for Tanganyika. He was the winner of the Tanganyika Open Golf
Championship on four occasions.
JOHN STURGES RANSON (born 1890). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H.
(Eng.).
John Sturges Ranson (born 1890) [Epsom College 1904-1909. prefect. Rugby
XV] was the son of Dr W. E Ranson of Needham Market, Norfolk, and brother of
Jenner Ranson [Epsom College 1908-1914], and Dr William Russell Ranson [Epsom
College 1909-1914]. He was awarded an Entrance Scholarship to the Westminster
Hospital. During the First World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (19151918) in Mesopotamia, and after the War was appointed Assistant County Medical
Officer for Essex. He was previously Medical Officer of Health for Halstead, Essex,
Combined Area; Assistant Medical Officer of Health; School Medical Officer for
Ipswich, and Assistant School Medical Officer for the North Riding of Yorkshire. He
was a Member of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.
NICHOLAS EDWARD KENDALL (1890-1969). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).
Nicholas Edward Kendall (1890-1969) [Epsom College 1905-1909. Rugby XV]
was the son of Edward Kendall, a land agent, of Athenry, Co. Galway, Ireland, and
brother of Dr Guy Melville Kendall [Epsom College 1906-1911). He received his
medical training at Guy’s Hospital, and during the First World War served as a Major
(Surgical Specialist) in the R.A.M.C. He was later appointed Honorary Surgeon to the
Ear, Nose and Throat Department of Leicester Royal Infirmary, and before that a
Clinical Assistant in the ENT Department of Guy’s Hospital. He was killed in a car
accident in 1969.
JOHN ARCHER COWAN (1890-1937). M.B., B.S. (Lond), D.T.M.
(Liverpool).
John Archer Cowan (1890-1937) [Epsom College 1902-1908. Carr Exhibition]
was the son of Dr R. H. Cowan of Wigan, Lancashire. He received his medical
education at University College Hospital. During the First World War he served as a
Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1914 to 1916) in France and Belgium, and after the War
was appointed Government Pathologist in Singapore, before his appointment as
Government Pathologist at Penang, Malaya. While in Penang, he was elected
Chairman of the Penang Division of the British Medical Association, and later
President of the Malaya Branch of the British Medical Association (1935). He was a
Corresponding Member of the Association of Clinical Pathologists.
SURGEON REAR-ADMIRAL OWEN DEANE BROWNFIELD
(1891-1955). C.B., O.B.E., K.H.P., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Owen Deane Brownfield (1891-1955) [Epsom College 1904-1909. prefect.
Cricket XI] was the son of Dr H. M. Brownfield of Petersfield, Hampshire. He
received his medical training at St Thomas’s Hospital. During the First World War he
served at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, on H.M.S. Chester, H.M.S. Excellent, and
at the Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth. He took part in the Battle of Jutland, and in
1919 was awarded the O.B.E. for valuable services given while serving in these
appointments. From 1931 to 1935 he was appointed Medical Specialist at the Royal
Naval Hospital, Malta, holding the rank of Surgeon Commander. In 1937, he was
Medical Officer in Charge of Medical Quarters, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and
then Medical Officer in charge of the Royal Naval Hospital at Trincomalee, Ceylon.
From 1945 to 1947, he served as Principal Medical Officer at H.M.S. Collingwood,
and in 1947, was promoted Surgeon Rear Admiral. He then returned to Malta where
he was placed in command of the Royal Naval Hospital (1947-1951). He was an
Honorary Physician to H. M. King George VI, a Member of the Council of the British
Medical Association (1951), and a Member of the Armed Forces Committee and the
Waverley Evidence Committee.
REGINALD HUGH SIMPSON (1891-1964). M.D., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.P.
(Lond.), D.T.M & H. (Eng.), D.P.H. (Oxon.).
Reginald Hugh Simpson (1891-1964) [Epsom College 1902-1909. prefect.
Watts Science, Latin Prose, and Gardiner Prizes] was the son of F. M. Simpson, a
wine merchant of Lewisham, South London. He was awarded an Entrance
Scholarship to St Bartholomew’s Hospital. During the First World War he served as a
Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1915-1919) in France, mainly as battalion and field
ambulance medical officer. In the Second World War he worked with the Medical
Officer of Health for Cornwall in organizing and maintaining an effective medical
service for the resident and evacuated children in that county. He was appointed
Consultant Physician to the East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell, after
working as Chief Assistant to the Medical Unit at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. After
working with Dr R. G. Canti on tissue culture and cellular biology, he entered the
School Medical Service of the London County Council, and was seconded for a time
to the Ministry of Health for an investigation into the nutritional state of children in
areas of severe unemployment.
BRIGADIER FRANCIS GERALD AUGUSTUS SMYTH (1891-1942).
C.B.E., R.A.M.C., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Francis Gerald Augustus Smyth (1891-1942) [Epsom College 1903-1908. head
prefect. Entrance Scholarship. Rugby XV. English Literature and Watts Science
Prizes] was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel F. A. Smyth, R.A.M.C., of Weymouth,
Dorset. He won an Entrance Scholarship to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he had
a distinguished career, winning the Kirke’s Gold Medal, Brackenbury Scholarship in
Medicine, and the Burrows Prize in Pathology. During the First World War he served
in the R.A.M.C. in France and Waziristan, India (1914-1918). After the war he took a
permanent commission and served in Egypt, India and Palestine before the outbreak
of the Second World War, and in 1941 was appointed O.B.E. for distinguished service
in the Middle East, was promoted C.B.E. later that year, and mentioned in dispatches
in December, 1941. He was a member of the Council of the Egyptian Branch of the
British Medical Association.
HERBERT ELLIS MARSDEN (1891-1946). M.B., Ch.B. (Liverpool),
D.P.H. (Eng.), J.P.
Herbert Ellis Marsden (1891-1946) [Epsom College 1905-1907] was the son of
Dr H. H. Marsden of Ormskirk, West Lancashire, He received his medical education
at Liverpool University. During the First World War he served as a Captain in the
R.A.M.C. (1915-1918) in France, Egypt and Palestine, and after the War was
appointed Assistant School Medical Officer for the Liverpool Education Committee,
and then Medical Officer of Health for West Lancashire R.D.C. and Skelmersdale
U.D.C. He was Honorary Secretary, Ormskirk General Hospital and Dispensary, and
a Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. He served as a J.P. for the
County of Lancashire.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL HARRY MAINWARING HOLT (18911962). T.D., R.A.M.C., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.B., Ch.B (Leeds), D.P.H. (Eng.).
Harry Mainwaring Holt (1891-1962) [Epsom College 1905-1907] was the son
of Dr H. M. Holt of Malton, Yorkshire. He won the Senior Scholarship to study
medicine at Leeds University, where he won the Anatomy Prize and the Scattergood
Prize in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. During the First World War he served as a
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C., serving in France and Mesopotamia.
After the First World War, Harry Holt was appointed Demonstrator in Anatomy at
Sheffield University before being appointed Professor of Anatomy and Lecturer in
Biology at the government medical school in Singapore. He then returned to England
and was appointed Medical Officer of Health for Keighley, an appointment that he
held for 27 years (1929-1957). In 1936 he received the Territorial Decoration for 20
years commissioned service in the Territorial Army, and subsequently the Jubilee
Medal. He commanded the 6th Northern Hygiene Company with the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel.
DOUGLAS REID ALEXANDER (1891-1951). M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Lond.), D.P.M.
Douglas Reid Alexander (1891-1951) [Epsom College 1902-1909. prefect.
Rugby XV] was the son of Dr R. R. Alexander, Superintendent of Hanwell Asylum,
Greater London. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital. During the
First World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. and was awarded the
Military Cross (M.C.). After the war he was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist to
Bexley, Horton, Banstead and Friern Hospitals.
NICHOLAS MARSHALL CUMMINS (1892-1963). M.C., M.D., B.Ch.
(Cork), M.Sc. (Cork), F.R.C.P. (Ireland).
Nicholas Marshall Cummins (1892-1963) [Epsom College 1906-1909] was the
son of Dr W. A. Cummins of Cork, Ireland. He received his medical education at
University College, Cork, graduating M.B., B.Ch in 1915. During the First World
War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C., and was awarded the Military Cross
(M.C.) (1917). He was appointed Honorary Secretary of the Blood Transfusion
Service, Cork.
RANALD MONTAGU HANDFIELD-JONES (1892-1978). M.C., M.B.,
B.S. (Lond.), M.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Ranald Montague Handfield-Jones (1892-1978) [Epsom College 1907-1910.
prefect. Cricket XI. Hockey XI. MacFarlane Cup] was the son of Dr C. R. HandfieldJones of Leamington Spa. He was awarded an Entrance Scholarship to St Mary’s
Hospital. During the First World War he served as a Major in the R.A.M.C., in
France, and was awarded the Military Cross (M.C.), before spending the last six
months of the war as a prisoner. On his return to St Mary’s Hospital he achieved the
remarkable feat of passing the Conjoint Examination, acquiring the F.R.C.S., and
becoming University Gold Medallist in the M.B., B.S. examination – all in the same
year. After the War he was appointed Consultant Surgeon and Director of the Surgical
Unit at St Mary’s Hospital. He was also Consultant Surgeon to the Hospital for
Women, Soho Square, London. During the Second World War he was appointed
Medical Officer in charge of emergency medical services at St Mary’s Hospital,
where he lived throughout the bombing period. He was a Hunterian Professor of the
Royal College of Surgeons, and Chairman of the Court of Examiners, Royal College
of Surgeons. In 1951 he was co-author of The Essentials of Modern Surgery (1951),
which ran to five editions.
WILLIAM HUBERT MILLIGAN (1892-1970). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
D.M.R.E. (Cantab.).
William Hubert Milligan (1892-1970) [Epsom College 1904-1909] was the son
of Dr William Milligan of Lytham, Lancashire, and brother of Dr Wilfred Egerton
Milligan [Epsom College 1904-1908], and Dr Donald Samuel Eccles Milligan
[Epsom College 1904-1909]. He received his medical education at St Thomas’s
Hospital and Liverpool University. During the First World War he served as a Major
in the R.A.M.C. with the Highland Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance, in Gallipoli,
Egypt, Palestine and the Senussi Campaign. He was mentioned in dispatches, and for
his work in the typhus epidemic at the Dakhla oasis he was decorated with the Order
of the Nile. During the Second World War he served as Radiologist to the 15th
Scottish General Hospital, mainly in the Middle East. He was the Senior Consultant
Radiologist at the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.
JOHN NISSEN DEACON (1892-1959). M.C., M.B., B.S. (Lond.).
John Nissen Deacon (1892-1959) [Epsom College 1905-1910. Epsom College
Council Exhibition. Prefect. Watts Science Prize] was the son of Dr J. G. Deacon of
West Croydon, Surrey, and brother of William Oliver Deacon [Epsom College 19051910]. At Epsom College he was awarded a Council Exhibition and was then awarded
an Entrance Scholarship to the London Hospital. In 1915, he joined the R.A.M.C. for
service in France and Italy, and from 1919-1920 was Staff Surgeon to the General
Headquarters in Egypt. In 1917, he was awarded the Military Cross (M.C.) for
“exceptional bravery and resource on several occasions in attending to the wounded
under very heavy shell fire, with complete disregard for his own personal safety.”
After the War, John Deacon spent two years as Aural Surgeon at the Benchimol
Hospital, Tangier, but in 1927 was appointed Medical Superintendent and Consultant
Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon at Redhill Hospital Edgware (now Edgware General
Hospital). “His ideas and methods attracted visitors from all parts of the world. He
was a careful and deft surgeon. His inventive brain devised many items of hospital
equipment.”
GERALD FRANCIS PETVIN GIBBONS (1892-1975). O.B.E., M.B., B.S.
(Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
Gerald Francis Petvin Gibbons (1892-1975) [Epsom College 1906-1910. Jenks
Memorial Scholarship] was the son of Dr Henry Gibbons of Desborough,
Northamptonshire, and father of Henry Sinclair Gibbons [Epsom College 1934-1937].
He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, graduating M.B.,
B.S. with Honours and Distinction in midwifery, and winning the Matthews Duncan
Prize. Gerald Gibbons initially went into general practice at Kettering, and during the
First World War served in the R.A.M.C. in France. In 1917, after the battle of
Messines, he was posted to the 37th Division as D.A.D.M.S. with the rank of Major.
He was twice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the O.B.E. From 1928 to
1935 he was Medical Officer of Health for Rothwell U.D.C. and served on the
Northamptonshire Executive Council. From 1939 to 1947, he was President of the
Northamptonshire Branch of the British Medical Association. At the introduction of
the National Health Service in 1948, he was appointed Senior Hospital Medical
Officer (surgical) and Vice-Chairman of the Group Management Committee. On
retirement he was elected Surgeon Emeritus, at Kettering General Hospital.
SAMUEL DURHAM LODGE (1893-1934). O.B.E., T.D., M.B., B.S.
(Durham), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), M.D. (Leeds), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Samuel Durham Lodge (1893-1934) [Epsom College 1905-1910] was the son of
Dr Samuel Lodge, M.D., of Bradford, Yorkshire. He received his medical education
at Durham and Leeds Universities, and St Thomas’s Hospital. Although he started in
general practice at Bradford, he then decided to specialise and spent some time
working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. During the First World War he held a
commission in the R.A.M.C. (Special Reserve) with the rank of Major. He served
overseas until 1919, in Mesopotamia, the Caucasus and Persia (Iran). He then joined
the Leeds University Medical School as Demonstrator in Anatomy, and a short while
later was appointed Senior Assistant Surgeon, the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital,
Bradford, and later as Consultant Ophthalmic and Aural Surgeon at the Royal Halifax
Infirmary (1920). He was later placed in charge of medical boards at Leeds and
Bradford and was awarded the O.B.E.
SURGEON REAR-ADMIRAL WILLIAM JOHN COLBORNE
(1894-1971). C.B., K.H.S, R.N., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
William John Colborne (1894-1971) [Epsom College 1909-1912] was the son of
Surgeon Rear-Admiral W. J. Colborne, C.B. and brother of Leslie Compton Colborne
[Epsom College 1915-1919]. He received his medical education at Charing Cross
Hospital, and during the First World War served as a Surgeon Lieutenant on the
battleship H.M.S. Barham at the Battle of Jutland (1916). After the War he was
posted to the battleship H.M.S. Resolution (1919-1920) before being appointed to the
Royal Marine Infirmary at Deal. In 1928, he was posted to the Royal Naval Hospital
at Plymouth as Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist. After this, he served as Surgeon
Specialist in the Flagship of the Home Fleet, H.M.S. Rodney until 1942 when he was
given command of the Royal Naval Auxiliary Hospital, Sherborne, with the rank of
Surgeon Captain. In 1947, he was appointed Senior Medical Officer (Surgery) at the
Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, but one year later was promoted Surgeon RearAdmiral, and appointed Medical Officer in charge of the Royal Naval Hospital,
Plymouth. He was appointed Deputy Surgeon General of the Royal Navy, and
Inspector General of Royal Naval Hospitals. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1951
and was appointed Administrative Medical Officer to the Regional Hospital Board for
Wales. He was created C.B. in 1950 and made an Honorary Surgeon to H.M. King
George VI.
WILLIAM ADLINGTON DATE (1894-1983). M.B., B.S. (Lond.),
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.).
William Adlington Date (1894-1983) [Epsom College 1907-1912. Epsom
College Council Exhibition. Cricket XI] was the son of Dr W. H. Date of Culmstock,
Devon, and brother of Alfred Horton Date [Epsom College 1910-1913]. He received
his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital. During the First World War he served
with the Devon Regiment in India and Palestine from 1914 to 1918, during which
time he was aide-de-camp to Lord Willingdon in Bombay. After the war he spent time
in private practice at Exeter, and was on the staff of the Royal Devon and Exeter
Hospital and the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital, as an Honorary
Anaesthetist. He was later appointed Senior Medical Officer with the Ministry of
Pensions and National Insurance.
HENRY ERNEST KARSLAKE ECCLES (1894-1962). M.C., M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.F.A.R.C.S.
Henry Ernest Karslake Eccles (1894-1962) [Epsom College 1910-1912)] was
the son of Dr G. T. Eccles of Hove, Sussex. He received his medical training at St
Bartholomew’s Hospital. During the First World War he served as a Major with the
R.F.C. and R.A.F. (1915-1919). He was awarded the Military Cross (M.C.) before
being invalided out with a serious leg wound. This wound precluded him from service
during the Second World War, when his hospital work increased even more because
of the absence of his colleagues with the Services. In fact, he was left to work as one
of the only non-military anaesthetists in Sussex and along the south coast. In 1926 he
was elected to the staff of the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, as a
Consultant Anaesthetist. In 1956, he was elected President of the Section of
Anaesthetics of the British Medical Association.
JOHN MERVYN SEMPLE (born 1894). B.A., M.B., B.Ch. (Dublin), B.A.O.,
L.M. (Rotunda Hosp., Dublin).
John Mervyn Semple (born 1894) [Epsom College 1910-1912] was the son of
Major John Semple, R.A.M.C. He received his medical education at Trinity College,
Dublin and Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital, Dublin. He then entered the Colonial Medical
Service in Gilgil, Kenya, and where after a short while he was appointed Senior
Medical Officer of the Uganda Medical Services, based first in Entebbe and later,
when he became Assistant Director of Medical Services, in Uganda. After working in
Uganda for some years, he moved first to the General Hospital, Penang and later, to
Tanglion Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. During the First World War he served as
a Lieutenant with the Royal Irish Rifles (1914-1918) at Salonika and in Palestine.
HAROLD GEORGE KIRWAN-TAYLOR (1895-1981). M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), M.B., B.Ch. (Cantab.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Harold George Kirwan-Taylor (1895-1981) [Epsom College 1909-1913. prefect.
Captain of the Cricket XI.] was the son of A. G. Taylor, company director of Sutton,
Surrey, and brother of Sir Alfred Jesse Taylor [Lord Grantchester] [Epsom College
1907-1912], Ernest Edward Taylor [Epsom College 1910-1912], Dr Gordon Kirwan
Taylor, M.D. [Epsom College 1915-1920], and William John Taylor [Epsom College
1919-1923]. He received his medical education at Trinity College, Cambridge and St
George’s Hospital. During the First World War he served as a Surgeon Lieutenant in
the Royal Navy (1917-1918) in the Mediterranean and the North Sea, and in the
Second World War as a Colonel in the R.A.M.C. (1940-1945). He was appointed
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at St George’s Hospital, the War
Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Other
appointments included Consultant Gynaecologist to the Ministry of Pensions,
Examiner for the Universities of Cambridge and Durham, and Examiner for the Royal
College of Surgeons and the Society of Apothecaries. He was the Prospective
Conservative candidate for East Woolwich at the General Election in 1945.
CLARENCE FRANKLIN EMINSON (1895-1979). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), D.O.M.S.
Clarence Franklin Eminson (1895-1979) [Epsom College 1909-1912. Jenks
Memorial Scholarship. Sterry Prize] was the son of Dr T. B. F. Eminson of Scotter,
Lincolnshire, and father of Dr Paul Franklin Eminson [Epsom College 1937-1942],
and Anthony Franklin Eminson [Epsom College 1939-1942]. He received his medical
education at Charing Cross Hospital, where he won the Gold Medal for Clinical
Medicine. During the First World War he saw service with the Royal Naval
Armoured Corps at Gallipoli in 1915, and for a short period after the war he was a
medical officer in the Royal Flying Corps (1916). He was appointed Consultant
Ophthalmic Surgeon at Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Scunthorpe War Memorial
Hospital, as well as Visiting Ophthalmologist to the Yorkshire School for the Blind.
In 1979, he died as the result of a car accident.
LESLIE WILLIAM HEFFERMAN (1895-1957). M.B., B.S., M.D. (Lond.),
F.R.C.S. (Eng), F.R.C.S. (Edin.), D.Obst.R.C.O.G.
Leslie William Hefferman (1895-1957) [Epsom College 1911-1913. prefect.
Modern History Prize] was the son of Major W. St M. Hefferman of the Burma
Medical Service, and father of David Michael Hefferman [Epsom College 19521956]. He won the Freer Lucas Entrance Scholar to the Middlesex Hospital, where he
won the Lyell Scholarship and Gold Medal. He graduated M.B., B.S. (Lond.) with a
Distinction in Anatomy, and was then appointed Assistant Demonstrator in Anatomy
at the Middlesex Hospital, and Prosector to the examiners for London University and
the Conjoint Board of the Royal College of Surgeons. During the First World War he
served as a Captain with the Border Regiment. From 1920 to 1924 he was Chief
Medical Officer to the Burma Corporation and Surgeon to the General Hospital at
Namtu. When he returned from Burma, he went into general practice at Swansea and
was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Swansea General Hospital. From 1938 to 1948 he
was President of the Medical Practitioners’ Union. He was also a Commissioner of
the St John Ambulance Association, a Commander of the Venerable Order of St John
of Jerusalem, and a Member of the Swansea Borough Council.
FRANK NEON REYNOLDS (1895-1953). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
F.R.C.S. (Edin.), F.R.C.O.G.
Frank Neon Reynolds (1895-1953) [Epsom College 1909-1911] was the son of
R. M. Reynolds, R.D., master mariner, of Surbiton, Surrey. He received his medical
education at St Thomas’s Hospital. During the First World War he served as a
Surgeon Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and was present at the Battle of Jutland and the
blockading of Ostend. He was appointed Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
to St Thomas’s Hospital, the Hospital for Women, Soho Square, and Southend
General Hospital. During the Second World War he was appointed Consulting
Gynaecologist to the County of Hertfordshire, with responsibility for 12 emergency
maternity homes under the evacuation scheme of the Ministry of Health. He was well
known for his advocacy of improved methods of relieving pain in childbirth and in
this capacity he was able to put into action plans which he had devised for improving
the work of midwives, particularly in connection with analgesia in childbirth. This
was a subject close to his heart and in 1934 his book Relief of Pain in Childbirth was
published. In 1952 he was Vice-President of the Section of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, in Dublin.
BENJAMIN THOMAS (born 1895). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
(Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).
Benjamin Thomas (born 1895) [Epsom College 1910-1913] was the son of Dr I.
G. Thomas of Hirwain, Glamorgan, and brother of Ieuan Glyndwr Thomas [Epsom
College 1912-1915]. He was awarded an Entrance Scholarship to St Mary’s Hospital.
During the First World War he served as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the Royal Navy on
minesweepers. He was appointed Consultant Surgeon to Aberdare General Hospital,
South Wales. He was Deputy Coroner for South Brecknockshire.
ERIC MILES ATKINSON (1895-1978). M.B., B.S., (Lond.), L.R.C.P.
(Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.)
Eric Miles Atkinson (1895-1978) [Epsom College 1908-1912. prefect. Entrance
Scholarship. Rosebery English Literature, Gardiner and Elocution Prizes] was the son
of Arthur Miles Atkinson, surgeon of Newton Abbot, Devon. He was awarded an
Entrance Scholarship to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and as a Demonstrator in
Anatomy at St Bartholomew’s Hospital won the Jacksonian Prize of the Royal
College of Surgeons (1926) for his essay on brain abscess. During the First World
War he served with the British Expeditionary Force in France (1914-1915) as a
motor-cycle dispatch rider, but then joined the Royal Navy as a Surgeon Lieutenant in
1917 until the end of the War. From 1925-1935 he worked in Bath as Surgeon in
Charge of the ENT Department of the Royal United Hospital, and in 1928 he was
appointed Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. Eric Atkinson then
travelled to Canada where he worked for one year with Dr Wilder Penfield, the
internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon, at the Neurological Institute in Montreal. In
1936, he moved to the USA and joined the staff of the Neurological Institute in New
York, and, later, the Bellevue Hospital. In 1937 he became a Diplomate of the
American Board of Otolaryngology, and in 1938 he became a Member of the
American Academy of Otolaryngology. He later engaged in private practice in New
York until 1964.
GEORGE VINCENT DAVIES (1895-1972). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
F.R.C.S. (Edin.).
George Vincent Davies (1895-1972) [Epsom College 1909-1913. prefect.
Rugby XV. Sterry Prize] was the son of Dr J. L. Davies of Llanelly, South Wales, and
father of Dr Vincent John Elliot Davies [Epsom College 1936-1941]. He won an
Open Scholarship to St Mary’s Hospital, where he won the Anatomy Prize. During
the First World War George Davies joined the R.A.M.C. and was posted to India
where he served in the North West Frontier Province. After the war he went into
general practice in Llanelli and was surgeon to Llanelli Hospital. In 1930 he was
appointed Regional Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, working in
Birmingham and London, and at the start of the Second World War he rejoined the
R.A.M.C. as a Lieutenant-Colonel and resumed his surgical career. He was posted to
France with a field hospital and then to Gibraltar, where he was in charge of the
surgical unit at the Gort Hospital. He was mentioned in dispatches. After the war he
returned to the Ministry of Health and was appointed Regional Medical Officer at
Leeds, later becoming Divisional Medical Officer at Nottingham of the East Midlands
Division.
HENRY ERIC BEASLEY (born 1896). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.M. (Eng.).
Henry Eric Beasley (born 1896) [Epsom College 1907-1914. Junior Scholarship.
Carr Exhibition] was the son of Dr H. C. Beasley of Malvern, Worcestershire, and
brother of Patrick Bernard Charles Beasley [Epsom College 1910-1918]. He was
awarded an Entrance Scholarship to University College Hospital, and was appointed
Medical Superintendent of the Middlesex Colony, Harper Lane, St Albans (afterwards
Harperbury Hospital). He was a Member of the Royal Medical Psychiatric
Association. During the First World War he served as a Lieutenant at Gallipoli (Cape
Helles) and in France.
ROGER LESTER WILLIAMS (born 1896). M.A., M.B., B.Ch. (Cantab.),
L.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Roger Lester Williams (born 1896) [Epsom College 1908-1914] was the son of
Dr E. R. Williams of Carmarthen, Wales. He received his medical education at St
John’s College, Cambridge, St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Vienna University. After
an appointment as Clinical Assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond
Street, he was appointed Surgeon to the Seamen’s Hospital, Greenwich, and an
Honorary Surgeon to the Passmore Edwards Hospital, Wood Green, and the Lock
Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, London.
JOHN DOUGLAS MAGOR CARDELL (1896-1966). M.B., B.S. (Lond.),
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
John Douglas Magor Cardell (1896-1966) [Epsom College 1909-1914. Jenks
Memorial Scholarship] was the son of A. J. Cardell, dentist of Victoria Street, South
London. He received his medical education at St Thomas’s Hospital, where he won
the William Tite Scholarship (1914) and the Peacock Scholarship (1915-1916, with a
second tenure for 1916-1917). He was then appointed Senior Consultant Ophthalmic
Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital; the Royal Masonic Hospital, and Consultant
Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital (1927) and
Hounslow Hospital. He was Chairman of the Moorfields Eye Hospital Medical
Committee (1959-1961), and Vice-President of the Section of Ophthalmology of the
British Medical Association (1937). In the First World War he served as a Surgeon
Lieutenant with the Royal Navy, in the Mediterranean. During the Second World War
he was attached to the Emergency Medical Service at Park Prewett and Leatherhead
Hospitals (1939-1945). He was a Member of the Ophthalmic Group Committee of the
British Medical Association (1932-1952), and President of the Section of
Ophthalmology at the Annual Meeting of the B.M.A, in 1937. “As Senior Surgeon to
the Central London Hospital he was of immense aid in the delicate negotiations
undertaken to amalgamate it with Moorfields Hospital (1958-1961) and transform it
into the Institute of Ophthalmology.”
BRYAN BUCKLEY SHARP (1896-1975). M.R.C.S., M.D. (Lond.),
M.R.C.P. (Lond.), D.P.M. (Eng.).
Bryan Buckley Sharp (1896-1975) [Epsom College 1909-1914. Rugby XV.
Cricket XI. Watts Science Prize] was the son of Dr Percy Sharp of Swallowbeck,
Lincolnshire, and brother of Percy Buckley Sharp [Epsom College 1907-1912], Roger
Buckley Sharp [Epsom College 1921-1924], and David Buckley Sharp [Epsom
College 1926-1930]. He was awarded an Entrance Scholarship to St Bartholomew’s
Hospital, where he won the Treasurer’s Prize, and in the First World War served as a
Captain in the R.A.M.C. in France. After the War he was appointed Consultant
Physician to the Princess Beatrice Hospital, the Evelina Hospital for Children, and
Acton Hospital. He was also Consultant Psychiatrist at the Royal Northern Hospital,
and Consultant Neurologist at Hornsey Central Hospital.
ARTHUR HEDLEY CLARENCE VISICK (1897-1949). M.B., B.S.
(Lond.), L.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Arthur Hedley Clarence Visick (1897-1949) [Epsom College 1909-1915.
prefect. Engledue Essay and Watts Science Prizes] was the son of Dr H. C. Visick of
Hornsey, Middlesex, and father of Dr James Hedley Visick [Epsom College 19501954]. He was awarded an Entrance Scholarship to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where
he won the Treasurer’s Prize and the Foster Prize for anatomy. In his final year he had
the unusual distinction of being awarded the Walsham Prize, the Brackenbury
Surgical Scholarship, and the Willett Prize for operative surgery. In 1926, he was
appointed Instructor in Surgery at Michigan University, U.S.A. When he returned to
Britain he was appointed Consultant Surgeon at York District Hospital. He was also
Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, and Chairman of the York
Division of the British Medical Association. “The name Visick, is known to all
surgeons because of an eponymous classification. Visick’s grading of the results of
gastro-duodenal surgery started over 40 years ago. It was the first attempt to assess
the results of gastrectomy for peptic ulcer…His superb mastery of anatomy, wellmarried to a first principal’s approach often resulted in practical solutions to
unexpected problems.”
DARRYL CEDRIC CORRY (1898-1984). M.A. (Oxon), M.B., M.D.
(Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Darryl Cedric Corry (1898-1984) [Epsom College 1909-1915. prefect. French
Prize and Carr Exhibition] was the son of Dr William Corry of South Lambeth Road,
London, and brother of Ernest William Clarence Corry [Epsom College 1901-1906].
He received his medical training at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he won the
Robert Bruce Medal, and Ackerson Scholarship; and he was then awarded an
Entrance Scholarship to University College Hospital, where he won the Lister Gold
Medal for Surgery. During the First World War, he served as a Lieutenant in the
Royal Artillery, in Mesopotamia. After the War he was appointed Senior Consultant
Surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and Horton General Hospital, Banbury.
Although surgery was his abiding interest, “Sam Corry was an experienced sailor with
his own ocean going yacht”.
RICHARD FREDERICK LISTER HEWLETT (1898-1990). M.R.C.S.,
L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.Path.
Richard Frederick Lister Hewlett (1898-1990) [Epsom College 1909-1915.
prefect] was the son of Professor R. T. Hewlett, M.D., F.R.C.P. of Southfields, South
London, and brother of Dr Allan Beale Hewlett [Epsom College 1915-1918], Rex
George Francis Hewlett [Epsom College 1917-1920], and Paul Soames Hewlett
[Epsom College 1935-1938]. He received his medical education at King’s College,
London, and King’s College Hospital. During the First World War he joined the
London Rifle Brigade (1917-1918) and was sent to the Western Front. However, he
was captured and began his medical training while he was in a French prisoner of war
camp. After the War he was appointed Assistant Biochemist at King’s College
Hospital, and then Director of Pathology at the Lambeth Hospital, and Consultant
Pathologist at St Thomas’s Hospital and the London Jewish Hospital. Lister Hewlett
was named after Lord Lister, pioneer of antisepsis, and a Vice-President of Epsom
College, as well as a friend and colleague of his father. “A brilliant scholar, Dr
Hewlett studied Greek and mathematics in his spare time. He could converse on
almost any subject and took a lively interest in all topical affairs.”
EDWARD TOWNLEY BAILEY (born 1898). M.B., B.S. (Lond.),
L.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. (Eng.).
Edward Townley Bailey (born 1898) [Epsom College 1913-1916. prefect. Watts
Science Prize] was the son of Arthur Bailey, mineral agent of Scarborough,
Yorkshire, and brother of Dr Robert Townley Bailey, M.B.E. [Epsom College 19061911]. He was awarded the Freer Lucas Scholarship to the Middlesex Hospital, and
during the First World War served as a Second Lieutenant in the West Yorkshire
Regiment (1916-1918) at Ypres. He was later appointed Senior Assistant Medical
Officer, St Leonard’s Hospital, Hoxton, City of London, having previously been a
Surgical Registrar at the Middlesex Hospital.
RICHARD ANTHONY HIGHMOOR (1899-1964). T.D., M.A. (Cantab.),
M.B., B.Ch. (Cantab.), D.L.O., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Edin.).
Richard Anthony Highmoor (1899-1964) [Epsom College 1913-1917. prefect.
Rugby XV] was the son of Dr R. N. Highmoor of Litcham, Norfolk. He received his
medical education at Clare College, Cambridge and the Middlesex Hospital. He was
appointed Senior Consultant Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon at the Norfolk and
Norwich Hospital. During the Second World War he served as a Major in the
R.A.M.C., in France and the Middle East. After the War he was elected Chairman of
the Norwich Division of the British Medical Association; Honorary Secretary of the
Norfolk Branch of the British Medical Association (1953-1954), and Chairman of the
Norwich Division in 1953-1954. He was President of the Norwich MedicoChirurgical Society (1955-1956). An obituary in the British Medical Journal stated
that he was “always alive to genuine developments and advances in the specialty. As
a consequence the department which has evolved under his leadership is of a very
high order. His first-class judgement and sound technique enabled him to introduce a
number of new methods, new at the time, which added greatly to the relief he was
able to give his patients. He was a really good man, kind, loyal, and unselfish to a
degree, which endeared him to the hearts of all who had occasion to come into contact
with him.” He was a member of the Cambridge University Rugby XV.
CYRUS IVE (born 1899). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.),
D.P.H. (Eng.).
Cyrus Ive (born 1899) [Epsom College 1913-1917. prefect. Rugby XV] was the
son of Ernest Ive, civil engineer of Redhill, Surrey, brother of Dr Oliver Ive [Epsom
College 1920-1924], and father of David Ive [Epsom College 1940-1945]. He
received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital, and during the First World War
served as a Flying Officer in the R.F.C., and later, as a Flight Lieutenant in the R.A.F.
(1917-1918) in the Middle East. After the War he was appointed Assistant County
Medical Officer for Essex County Council, then Assistant Medical Officer, London
County Council, before his definitive appointment as Medical Officer of Health for
Epsom, Dorking and Leatherhead. He was a Fellow of the Society of Medical
Officers of Health.