Thomas Stoyle ('Tom') was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Glenfield General Hospital, Leicester. He was born on 21 April 1926 in Glasgow. His father was a regular soldier; his mother was German and the family regularly visited Germany for holidays. He was educated a

Martin Lowy was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Whittington Hospital, London. He was born in Aussig, Czechoslovakia, on 12 December 1933, the son of Julius Lowy, a general practitioner, and Helen Lowy née Wagner. He survived three years in a concentration camp and went to the UK at the age of 11 with

Frantz Langlais was chairman of the orthopaedic department at University Hospital Sud, Rennes, France. He was born in 1942 in Plouër-sur-Rance, Brittany, the son of a general practitioner. He trained in orthopaedic surgery in Paris under Robert Merle d'Aubigné, Jean Gossett and Michel Postel, and th

Born on 26 September 1879, the youngest (fifth) child and only son of James Bankart, FRCS (1862) of Southernhay, Exeter, and Gertrude Moss, his wife. Hew as educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos 1901. He took his cl

Carl John Williams was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. He studied medicine at University College London, gaining a BSc in medical microbiology in 1989 and qualifying MB BS in 1992. He was a senior house officer in general surgery at Blackpool, and then a clinica

Geoffrey Wetherell was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Clatterbridge Hospital, Wirral, Merseyside. He was born on 6 June 1918, the son of Gertrude Blanche Wetherell née Hapgood and Alfred Wetherell. He studied medicine in Liverpool and, after qualifying in 1943, did his house jobs there. He carr

Philip John Pownall was an orthopaedic surgeon in Bolton. He was born on 22 February 1937 and studied medicine at Manchester University, qualifying MB ChB in 1961. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England in 1971 and 1972 respectively. Prior to his consu

Eric Hugo Strach was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon on Merseyside. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, into a Jewish family. His father, Cornelius Strach, was a businessman; his mother was Helene Strach née Bachrich. He studied medicine at Prague University and graduated in 1938. After qualify

Born on 1 July 1892, son of John Henry Lloyd, and of Quaker stock, he was educated at Leighton Park School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a half-blue for running in 1914. For his clinical studies he went to St Bartholomew's Hospital and, on qualifying, he joined the Friends' Am

Born in 1905 he was educated in Melbourne and matriculated in 1921 with four first-class honours. He graduated in Melbourne with honours in all subjects. At the time of his death he was chief orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal Melb

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

Satish Chandra Bansal was an orthopaedic surgeon who worked in Kansas, USA. He gained his FRCS in 1971.