Kennaway, Sir Ernest Laurence (1881–1958), pathologist, was born at 16 Velwell Villas, Exeter, on 23 May 1881, the youngest of five children of Laurence James Kennaway, a colonial farmer, and his wife, Mary Louisa Galton. His grandfather, who was twice mayor of Exeter...
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Sir Ernest Laurence Kennaway (1881–1958) by Walter Stoneman, 1947 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sheehan, Harold Leeming (1900–1988), pathologist, was born on 4 August 1900 in Carlisle, Cumberland, the second of six sons and second of thirteen children of Patrick Sheehan, general medical practitioner, and his wife, Eliza, daughter of Francis Leeming, a businessman in the cotton trade. He was educated at ...