Margaret Dix was born in 1902, the daughter of a Shropshire rector. She was educated at Sherborne and the Royal Free School of Medicine, where she qualified in 1937. She was appointed house surgeon to Douglas McLaggan and seemed set for a distinguished future in the profession. She was an outstandin

David Moffat was a consultant neuro-otologist/skull base surgeon of international acclaim. He ran an outstanding department at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge from 1981 until he retired in 2012. He was born on 27 June 1947 in Cardiff, Wales of Celtic stock; his father, Graham Moffat, was Scotti