John Howkins was a gynaecological surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He was born in Hartlepool, County Durham, on 17 December 1907, the son of John Drysdale Howkins, a civil engineer, and Helen Louise née Greenwood, the daughter of a bank manager. He was educated at Cargilfield Preparator

Gladys Helen Marchant trained in India and gained the MB, BS Calcutta in 1916. In 1922 she passed the Conjoint Examination as well as the DOMS. In 1923 she gained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She passed the MD Lausanne in 1927, and in 1928 she gained the Fellowship o

Harry Silvester Waters was born in Mussoorie, India, on 21 May 1904, the son of Sir Harry George Waters, chief medical officer to the East India Railway Company. His mother, Winifred, was one of the first female graduates of the Edinburgh Medical School, and was for a time after her marriage an assi