He was born in London in 1912, and received his early education at Doon House Preparatory School, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. He then went to Uppingham and was promoted to the scientific sixth form in his fourth year. In 1930 he was enrolled as a medical student at the London Hospital Medical College.

Steven Robert Huddart was born in Cumbria on 18 September 1949. His father, Johnathan William Huddart was a schoolmaster and his mother, Dorothy, a nursing sister. He was educated at Wellingborough Grammar School and subsequently qualified from Westminster Hospital Medical School. His resident hospi

Cicely Pepler studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital and qualified MB, BS in 1944. She was Nuffield Scholar in orthopaedic surgery at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. Other posts she held were as assistant lecturer in anatomy at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine; research fel

George Perkins was born in Staines, Middlesex, on 22 September 1892, the second child and elder son of George James Perkins, a butcher, and Lilian Straker, a retired stationer. Perkins was deeply indebted to his father whom he described as a 'marvellous man' who left school at the age of 12 and late

Derek Willey Purser was born near Heywood, Lancashire, on 14 June 1922, and was educated at Heywood Grammar School and Manchester University where he graduated MB ChB in 1946. After house appointments he took the FRCS in 1951 and served for two years as an orthopaedic surgeon in the Army in Germany.

John Harrington Pusey was born on 19 January 1940 and was educated at Chesham Boy's Preparatory School, Bucks, and at Wycliffe College, Stone-house, Gloucestershire. For his medical education he came to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the MB

Geoffrey Hyman was born in Leeds on 16 August 1908 and educated at Leeds Central High School and Leeds University, where he graduated in 1931. After house appointments at Leeds General Infirmary and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, he took the FRCS in 1937. During the second world

John Francis Stone was born on 4 October 1926 in Edinburgh. His father, Thomas Willam Stone, was the headmaster of the only school on Barra and his mother, Evelyn Agnes, née McFarlane, was the daughter of a journalist. He was educated first at the Castlebay School on the Isle of Barra before attendi

Frank Stinchfield, a leading American orthopaedic surgeon, was awarded the honorary FRCS in 1978 when he was President of the American College of Surgeons; he was welcomed on that occasion not only by the orthopaedic fraternity in Britain but by the many surgeons who had encountered his benevolent f

Pierre Stagnara was one of the most outstanding French orthopaedic surgeons of his day, and was awarded the honorary FRCS in 1985. He was born in Loriol, France, on 16 January 1917, the son of a civil servant. He studied medicine in Lyon, qualifying in 1938. Soon afterwards he was inevitably called

Edgar Somerville was born in Leek, Staffordshire, on 4 November 1913, the son of Edgar Watson Somerville, a general practitioner who had the FRCS Edinburgh, and his wife Muriel Helen, née Watson. His grandfather too had been awarded the Scottish diploma and his brother, Philip Graham Somerville, is

Michael Kevin Murphy was educated at Christian Brothers' College, Cork; Downside School; and the London Hospital Medical College. He graduated in medicine in 1960. After internship and surgical house posts he obtained the Diploma in Anaesthetics and went briefly into anaesthetics, but soon returned