Edwin Carlyle Wood, known as 'Carl', was a pioneering gynaecologist who, in 1973 in Melbourne, achieved the world's first test tube pregnancy. He was born in Melbourne on 28 May 1929, the son of a gynaecologist, Carlyle Sandford Wood, and Nellie Clayton Wood née Miller. He attended Wesley College an

Alan Gerald Amias was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St George’s Hospital, London. Having spent his early years in the East End of London where he was born on 25 June 1929, he was evacuated to Bedford when he was eleven years old to escape the Blitz. Although he managed to gain swift

Ariyaman Mahanama Mendis was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Sri Lanka from 1958 to 1974, when he immigrated to Western Australia. He accepted the position of senior medical officer to the vast and remote Kimberley region, based at Derby Regional Hospital, on the far north coast of We

Peter Sherratt Watson was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in the Hertfordshire area. He was born in Leicester on 6 May 1925. His father, John Robert Watson, was an accountant and his mother, Nellie Evelyn née Sherratt, a secretary. At Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester, he was captain o

Pamela Mary Spencer née Bacon was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Whittington Hospital, London. She was born in London, in Dulwich, the daughter of Leonard Guy Bacon, a civil servant who had served as a bomber pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, and Edith M