Born at East Hoathly, Sussex on 18 September 1884, where his father and grandfather had practised, he was educated at Eastbourne College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. There he took second class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1905, and following the family tradition did

Robert Allen Fitzsimons was born on 16 March 1892 at Maugherow, County Sligo, Ireland, and educated there at Summerhill College. He entered the Customs and Excise branch of the Civil Service by competitive examination in 1911 and in 1912 was transferred from Ireland to the Custom House at Billingsga

James Dalrymple was a general and orthopaedic surgeon in the UK, Canada, Peru and South Africa, and later in his career became a gender reassignment surgeon. He was born in Cardiff on 20 December 1931, the son of Samuel Beggs Dalrymple, a medical practitioner, and Marjorie Dalrymple née Oxenham. He

Born on 7 April 1891 at Tonbridge, Kent, John William Hawksley Grice was educated at Yardley Court School, Tonbridge School and Guy's Hospital Medical School. During the first world war he left his medical studies at Guy's and went to France as a dresser; later he returned to Guy's and qualified in

Frank Horan was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Cuckfield Hospital, Sussex and a medical adviser to Lord’s Cricket Ground, London. He was born in Manchester on 24 July 1933 and was educated at Torquay Grammar School, where he enjoyed cricket, cycling and table tennis. In 1951, he gained a pla

Richard John Montgomery was a consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough and the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle

Gwyn Amman Evans was a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Oswestry. He was born in Denbigh, in the Vale of Clwyd, on 24 March 1944, the son of Owen John Evans, a presbyterian minister, and Annie Gwyneth Evans née Edwards, the daughter of a farmer. At the age of three the family moved to Bon-y-maen in

Arthur Lewis Eyre-Brook, or 'E-B', was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Bristol. He was born in Inverness, a son of the manse. The family moved south when his father retired, and Arthur was educated at Colyton Grammar School in Devon. He went on to Bristol Medical School, where he did junior post

Charles Greenidge was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, on 28 December 1929, the third child and only son of Charles Woseley Greenidge, a jeweller, and Pauline Mary née O'Brien. He was educated at Wesley Hall Boys School, Combermere, and Harrison College, and studied medicine at the University College o

Norman Desmond Ashe specialised in orthopaedics and plastic surgery. He qualified from Oxford University in 1945 and passed the fellowship in 1953. He became a house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Moving to London he took a post at the Hammersmith Hospital and then worked in the depar

Lucian Gladwin Blaise Weliwita-Gunaratne was an accident and emergency surgeon in Kidderminster, and later returned to Sri Lanka, where he was a consultant surgeon at the Central Hospital (Nawinne). He was born on 3 February 1930 at Teldeniya, near Kandy, Ceylon. His parents, Don Zacharias Weliwita-

Gerald Golden only revealed the year of his birth on his 90th birthday. He trained at the London Hospital, qualifying in 1923. Soon after he went to Brazil, mainly to work in a mission hospital and for his scientific work during a typhoid epidemic he was awarded MB by the University of Rio de Janeir