Desmond Rosborough was born on 31 May 1932 and educated at Epsom College and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After graduating MB BS MRCS LRCP in 1956 he became a house surgeon in his teaching hospital. He then gained experience in general surgery and was registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospit

Born at Portland, Maine, USA on 24 October 1857. He graduated in medicine from Harvard in 1882, and practised for a time at Boston. In 1889 he moved to New York and was appointed to the staff of the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, known later as the Hospital for Special Surgery. His connexio

Tom Parsons was an orthopaedic surgeon in Brisbane, Australia. He was born in Liverpool, one of three sons of Thomas, a printer, and Doris, a tailor. His grandfather was a Newfoundland sailor who had settled in the port city. Tom was educated at Holt High School, Liverpool, and, like many of his era

Manoj Kanti Sen was born in Rangpur, Bengal, India. He was the third child and first son of Kamini Ranjan Sen, a teacher. He studied at the Rangpur Zilla School and the Chittagong Government College before proceeding to the R G Kar Medical College in Calcutta. He graduated MB BS in 1956 and then wor

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

Ross Bloom was born in Leeds on 2 January 1915; his father was a shopkeeper and his mother's maiden name was Fanny Castenberg. He was educated at Cardiff High School and graduated from the University of Wales in 1937, taking the London MB BS, the same year. He obtained the prize for the best first y

Bevis Brock was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Salisbury. He was born in Cambridge in 1922, the son of H M Brock, a well-known cartoonist and illustrator. Bevis attended the Perse School in Cambridge and subsequently Cambridge University, before undertaking his clinical training at King’s Colle

Douglas Freebody was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Kingston Hospital. He was born in Woolwich, London, on 19 April 1911, the son of a successful tailor, and attended the City of London School, before entering Guy’s Hospital Medical School, which he represented at hockey and boxing. After quali

John Buck was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the Woolwich and Greenwich area. He was born in Hove, Sussex, on 30 October 1915, the son of Arthur Herbert Buck, a general surgeon, and Lilian Maude Bligh, a theatre sister who was a direct descendant of the captain of the Bounty. John was brought u

Robert Duthie was Nuffield professor of orthopaedic surgery at Oxford University. He was born in Detroit, USA, on 4 May 1925, the second son of James Andrew Duthie, an engineer with the Ford Motor Company, and Elizabeth Jean née Hunter. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and King Edward VI G

Known affectionately as ‘Dru’, David Ronald Petersgarth Urquhart was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, from 1957 until 1981. Although in many ways a private person, he was undoubtedly one of the established St Thomas’ personalities in the post-war era. His skills were

K T Dholakia was the doyen of orthopaedic surgery in India. He was the senior orthopaedic surgeon at Breach Candy and P D Hinduja hospitals in Bombay, where he pioneered joint replacement and the fixation of fractures. In 2003 he won the 20th Rameshwardas Birla National Award for being the “outsta