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Born in Lancashire, 23 March 1905; educated at grammar school in Ashton-in-Makerfield and at the University of Manchester; First class honours degree in physics, 1925; MSc, 1926; employed on research by the General Electric Company, 1926-1937; awarded Royal Society fellowship to study electron processes in luminescent solids in the Physics Department at Birmingham University, 1937-1943; associated with Dr Henry Albert Howard Boot and Professor James Sayers at Birmingham University in the invention of the cavity magnetron, an essential element of radar; DSc, 1938; temporary lecturer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 1943-1944; appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, 1944; Wheatstone Chair of Physics at King's College London, 1946; set up a group to study the structure and growth of the connective tissue protein collagen, 1951; Edinburgh University, 1970; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1946; knighted in 1962; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1972; died 16 June 1984 at Edinburgh.

Publications: The Diffraction of X-Rays and Electrons by Amorphous Solids, Liquids, and Gases (Chapman & Hall, London, 1934); editor of Progress in biophysics and biophysical chemistry (molecular biology) with J A V Butler, (Butterworth-Springer, London, 1950); editor of Nature and Structure of Collagen. Papers presented for a discussion convened by the Colloid and Biophysics Committee of the Faraday Society at King's College, London, on 26 and 27 March, 1953 (Butterworths Scientific Publications, London, 1953).

John Randall entered Guy's Hospital as a student, Oct 1776.

Born, 1934; educated, Haileybury College; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (BA 1957, MA, 1973); National Service, 1952-1954; Rifle Bde, UK and British Army on the Rhine (BAOR), 1958-1962; seconded to King's African Rifles, 1962-1963; Staff College, 1964; Rifle Bde, Far East, 1965; Staff, 7 Armoured Bde, 1966-1968; 3 and 2 Green Jackets, BAOR, 1968-1971; Military Assistant to Chief of General Staff, 1971-1973; commanding officer, 2 Royal Green Jackets, 1974-1976; Staff, 4 Armoured Division, BAOR, 1976-1978; Commander, 39 Infantry Bde, 1978-1980; Royal College of Defence Studies, 1981; Director of Public Relations, British Army, 1982-1984; Commander, 3 Armoured Div, 1984-1987; Commander, UK Field Army and Inspector General, Territorial Army, 1987-1990; Adjutant General, 1990-1993; Aide-de-camp General to the Queen, 1990-1993; HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales, 1995-2001.

Born 1887; educated at Uppingham School and University College Oxford; called to the Bar in 1911; served in the World War One where he was awarded the Military Cross, 1914-1918; Conservative MP for Lancaster Division, 1929-1941; Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Education, 1931-1935; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1935-1936; Minister of Pensions, 1936-1939; First Commissioner of Works, 1939-1940; President of the Board of Education, 1940-1941; Chairman of the Assistance Board, 1941-1948; Chairman of the Burnham Committees, 1942-1949; Governor General of Ceylon, 1949-1954; created Viscount Soulbury, 1954; died, 1971.

Rampton entered King's College Hospital. London, for nurse training, Aug 1939, having some previous experience as a probationer nurse at Paddington Green Convalescent Home.

Alfred Theodore Rake entered Guy's Hospital as a student, Oct 1866.