Born in Norwich. Son of Harriet Futter and Philip Barnes, architect and founder of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park. Educated at home in Norwich and at Bruges, Belgium. Apprenticed to a local surgeon aged 15.

Studied medicine at University College London and St George's Hospital; qualified in 1842. Stayed in Paris for a year teaching English following his qualification before entering general practice at Notting Hill. Assistant obstetric physician at the London Hospital 1859, obstetric physician 1863. Obstetric physician at St Thomas's 1865; lecturer on midwifery. Also worked at the Seamen's Hospital, the East London Hospital for Children and the Royal Maternity Hospital.

Obstetric physician-surgeon 1875-1885 at St George's Hospital, consulting obstetric physician 1885-1907.

Published widely on obstetrics and gynecology. Lettsomian lecturer at the Medical Society of London, Lumleian lecturer and censor at the Royal College of Physicians.

Married twice, first Eliza Fawkener; they had two daughters and a son. Married Alice Maria Hughes in 1880; they had one daughter and one son. Retired to Eastbourne. Died in 1907 aged 90.

Born at Lee, Kent, the son of Henry Bellingham-Smith, a broker, and Frances Machin. He received his medical education at Guy's Hospital where his elder brother was on the honorary staff as obstetrician and gynaecologist. He graduated MB BS in 1905. His first interest was gynaecology and he proceeded MD in 1907, but then turned to general practice and paediatrics. About this time he began his long association with the Queen's Hospital for Children (later Queen Elizabeth Hospital), serving as RMO there. He was chairman of the medical committee and a member of the management committee of the hospital for many years.

At the beginning of the first world war he went out to work in Serbia with a privately organised ambulance service and he later joined the RAMC, serving in Egypt and obtaining the rank of major. After demobilisation he became assistant physician to St George's Hospital in 1920, later consultant physician, and served there for twenty-five years.

He undertook research on many aspects of disease in children and his papers covered subjects such as enureris, mongolism, typhoid fever, meningitis and speech defects. He was also deeply interested in diseases of the heart and lungs. He became a Fellow of the College in 1924, serving as examiner for the Conjoint Board, and was a councillor and censor in 1946 and 1947.

While serving in Egypt and Palastine he met his first wife, Barbara Mary Kenny, daughter of a director of the Royal Mail Steamship Company. They married in 1918 and had two sons. Barbara developed tuberculosis and died in 1934. He later obtained a special dispensation from the Catholic Church to marry her sister, Dorothy.

Born on 14th May 1908, the second son of H.P. Charles. Educated at Dulwich College after which he went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1927 to 1930. After leaving Cambridge he went to St George's Hospital for is clinical studies, qualifying in 1933.

His early appointments were as house surgeon at St George's Hospital and later at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. In 1953 he was awarded the Allingham Scholarship in surgery by St George's Hospital Medical School and he returned to work at the Hospital. He passed the FRCS in 1937 and the MRCOG two years later and held the posts of resident assistant surgeon and gynaecology registrar at the hospital.

In 1939 he joined the Territorial Army as a surgical specialist, serving overseas in Malta, Jerusalem and Cairo, where he was officer commanding the surgical division of 15th Scottish General Hospital and gynaecological adviser to Middle East Forces. He remained in the Territorial Army after the war, serving as Officer Commanding and later Honorary Colonel of No. 308 (County of London) General Hospital TA and VR.

After the war he was appointed consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St George's Hospital, consultant surgeon to the Samaritan Hospital for Women, consultant gynaecologist to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and to Caterham and District Hospital. He was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1951 and appointed honorary surgeon to Her Majesty the Queen from 1957 to 1959. He was vice-dean at St George's Hospital Medical School and examiner in midwifery and gynaecology to the Universities of Cambridge and London, the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Later in life he examined for the professional and linguistic board.

In addition he had a large private practice which included many visitors from overseas and in 1950 he went to Baghdad to treat the Queen Mother of Iraq. He was honorary gynaecological surgeon at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, President of the Chelsea Clinical Society and President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He joined the Livery of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1961 and was a Freeman of the City of London. He was also president of the Alleyn Club, incorporating old boys of Dulwich School and president of the Rosslyn Park Football Club, having played rugby for the club before the war. He published many articles in professional journals and was the author of the chapter Women in sport in Armstrong and Tucker's Injuries in sport, 1964.

In 1962 he married Rosemary Hubert who had been his theatre sister and in the following year he took up farming at West Chiltington, near Pulborough. He retired from the health service in 1973 but continued with his private practice for many years, spending week-day evenings at his club in St James's Square. He was greatly in demand as an expert witness and spent much time at the Law Courts in Edinburgh and London, defending colleagues accused of professional negligence. He died on 25 November 1990 aged 82 and was survived by his wife and three daughters, Alyson, Kate and Harriet

Studied at St George's Hospital 1842; qualified in 1848. He practiced in London and was obstetric physician at St George's 1866-1875 and lecturer on midwifery.

Physician at the General Lying-In Hospital. His name appears the for last time in the College List of 1906.

Born in 1860, the son of John Dakin, JP. Educated at Owens College Manchester and later Guy's Hospital where he graduated as MB, BS in 1882.

After holding house appointments at Guy's Hospital and the General Lying-In Hospital, he was elected physician to the Royal Hospital for Women and Children in 1885 and obstetric physician to the Great Northern Hospital in 1887. In 1891 he was made obstetric physician and lecturer on midwifery at St George's Hospital, before later returning to the General Lying-In Hospital as physician.

He examined in midwifery for Oxford University and the Conjoint Board and in 1897 produced a Handbook of Midwifery. He was president of the Obstetrical Society of London in 1905-06. He emerged from retirement to serve as a surgeon with the French Army in the First World War, receiving the Legion of Honour an the Croix de Guerre.

In 1892 he married Sylvia, daughter of F.T. Lewis, but had no children. He died in a London nursing home in 1935.

Lecturer in chemistry at St George's Hospital Medical School. Physician to Westminster General Dispensary. Editor of The Medical Intelligencer, and The London Medical and Physical Journal, Fellow of the Royal Society of Physicians. Founding member of the Athanaeum. President of the Westminster Medical Society, Vice President of the British Medical Society,

Born in Milan, Italy. Educated in Pavia. Left Italy for political reasons, and travelled to Constantinople [Istanbul, Turkey] with Lord Elgin, a British diplomat, as a physician to the British Embassy. Joined the Turkish Fleet as a physician, travelling throughout the Mediterranean and practicing in Spain before joining the British Navy as a surgeon. After marrying an English woman, moved to London to practice as a physician and to lecture at St George's.

Married Ms Kerr in 1809. Campaigned for Italian independence.

"Born on 26 October 1899 in Ceylon. He was educated first at Swansea and later at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1921.

He first became a house surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary where he gained considerable experience in general surgery. In 1923 he took his DPH and following year proceeded to take his MD in obstetrics, gynaecology and medicine. After his house appointments he became gynaecological tutor at St George's Hospital and also assistant medical registrar. In 1936 he was appointed to the staff of St George's and worked at that hospital until his retirement in 1965. In addition to his appointment at St George's he became obstetric physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and Gynaecological surgeon to the Weir Hospital and at Maidenhead and Bushey Hospitals. During the war he was in the EMS and worked at St Stephen's Hospital in Fulham Road, but later returned to St George's to act first as a casualty surgeon and later as a gynaecologist.

He was an examiner for the University of Cambridge and as associate editor of Operative Surgery, in which he wrote chapters on vaginal hysterectomy and uterine prolapse.

He married twice and was survived by his son David. Gwillim died at Reading on 2 September 1972. "

Student at St George's in the 1940s. Developed the Ghana-Carnegie postgraduate program in obstetrics and gynecology in Accra, Ghana in 1989 to provide specialist training in West Africa