Born on 28 March 1879 son of Thomas Fairbank MD, MRCS a practitioner at Windsor, he was educated at Epsom College from which he gained an open scholarship to Charing Cross Hospital. He qualified in 1898 as a doctor and in 1899 as a dentist but, after a house surgeon's appointment at Charing Cross, h

Bintcliffe was the son of Dr John William Bintcliffe of London, and was educated at Berkhamstead School and afterwards trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1934. After a short spell in general practice he returned to Bart's to work for his Fellowship which he obtained in 1936. He t

Shwing Chen was born in Colombo on 1 September 1934, the fourth child and first son of a dentist. He was educated at Wesley College, Colombo, where he won the medal for Best Scholar, 1954, and the Gooch Prize at Colombo Medical Faculty. He came to England and held posts at Wexham Park Hospital, Slou

John Adye Cholmeley was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, on 31 October 1902, the son of Doctor Mountague Adye Cholmeley and his wife Mary Bertha Gordon, née Cumming. His uncle, William Frederick Cholmeley FRCS, was surgeon to the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton. He was educated at the Abbey School, Bec

John Cloke was born in Melbourne, Australia on 16 November 1919, the son of Percy Cloke MC, who had served in the Royal Artillery as a captain in the first world war, and Agnes, née Longden. His early life was spent in the country near Cosgrove in Victoria, where he attended primary school. In 19

Robert Harris was born in Toronto on 1 July 1889, and was educated at the High School, North Bay, and the University of Toronto, where he graduated MB in 1915 and immediately joined the Army. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1915 and a bar to the Military Cross a year later. In August 1917 he wa

Born on 8 March 1906 in Bristol, where he spent practically the whole of his life, he was educated, and received his medical training. After qualifying in 1929 with the degrees of London University he left Bristol for a period of postgraduate training in Liverpool and Oxford, but, having been admitt

Educated at Cambridge and St George's Hospital he qualified in 1938; intending to specialise as an orthopaedic surgeon, he served as house surgeon at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. During the war he served in the RAF medical service as an orthopaedic specialist with

Thomas Fisher was born in Atherstone, Warwickshire on 8 July 1937, the first son of Dr Thomas Richmond Fisher, a general practitioner, and Margaret, née Owen. He came from a medical family, his grandfather, father, two uncles, an aunt and three cousins all being doctors. He was educated at Sherbo

Alan Bell Tawse was born on 18 March 1915 in Nottingham, the only child of Herbert Bell Tawse FRCS, a consultant otolaryngologist, and Gertrude Mary, née Goodall, daughter of a hosiery manufacturer. He was educated at Neville Holt Preparatory School, Uppingham School and Trinity College Cambridge, a

John Fitton was born in Darlington on 6 August 1915. His father, John Hall Fitton, was a bank manager in the West Riding of Yorkshire and his mother Joanna, née Fowler, was of Scottish descent. He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and studied medicine at the University of Leeds Medical

Anthony Hugh Cyril Ratliff (known as 'Tony' or 'Ratty') was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary. He was born in London on 18 August 1921, the first child of Sidney Ratliff, a leather manufacturer, and Mary Ratliff née Plaskett. He was educated at William Hulme's Grammar Schoo