Sennaporatti Sivashankar Viswanath Iyer was born in India. He studied medicine at Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute and qualified MB,BS in 1963. Initially he worked as a general surgeon and passed his MS in 1970. He was a lecturer in surgery at Mysore Medical College from 1971 to the

John Campbell Clothier was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Sandwell General Hospital, West Bromwich. He was born on 25 February 1944, the son of John G Clothier and Annabella Clothier née Gibson. He was educated at Repton School and then went on to study medicine at Oxford, gaining his MRCS LRCP