Charles Garrett Phillips was born in London on 13 October 1916, the eldest of four children,
having one brother and twin sisters. His own comment on his categorically medical ancestry …

David Phillips was born on 7 March 1924 in Ellesmere, Shropshire, a small country town
with a population then of 2000, on the border between England and Wales. His father …

George Clarke Simpson was born at Derby on 2 September 1878, the second son and third
of the seven children, three sons and four daughters, of Arthur and Alice Lambton Simpson …

Ralph Alexander Raphael was born in Croydon on 1 January 1921, the eldest child of Jack
Raphael and his wife Lily (née Woolf); there were also three daughters. The paternal family …

Francis Charles Fraser, internationally respected as a leading authority on whales, dolphins
and porpoises, spent most of his career (1933-69) in the British Museum (Natural History) …

Sir Otto Frankel-whom I shall refer to as Otto because that is how we all addressed him-was
a geneticist by training, a plant breeder by occupation, a cytologist by inclination and a …

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher had a varied and most distinguished life. His parents were
both people of rare culture. His mother, daughter of one of the beautiful 'Pattle sisters', had …

Lewis Fry Richardson, D. Sc., FRS, who died quietly in his sleep, at Kilmun, Argyll, on 30
September 1953, had been a Fellow of the Society for 27 years and had contributed many …

Philip Montagu D'Arcy Hart, born 25 June 1900, died 30 July 2006. He is survived by his
wife Ruth and their son Oliver. Additional material for this article is available from the James …

Leslie Crombie was born in York on 10 June 1923, the second eldest, and only boy, of
Walter Crombie and Gladys (nee Clarkson). On his father's side his great-grandfather had …