Thomas King was born in Melbourne, Australia on 17 January 1899, the son of a barrister. He was educated at Xavier College, Melbourne, and Melbourne University. He qualified MB BS in 1924, MD 1932 and obtained the FRCS in 1934. He was elected FRACS in 1934 and the same year appointed honorary orthop

Born at Royton near Oldham on 13 May 1903 the youngest of six children of a farmer who died the following year, he won his way to Hulme Grammar School with great determination in face of poverty. There he became captain of the cricket XI, and then went to Guy's Hospital where he served as demonstrat

Eric Cyril Lewis was born in Hull and educated at Beverley Grammar School. He studied medicine at Charing Cross Hospital and graduated in 1953. Surgical appointments followed at Plymouth and Wolverhampton and medical service with the armed forces in Kenya. He returned to his old teaching hospital as

Geoffrey James Lillie was born on 5 December 1902 at Launceston, Tasmania, in the Tamar valley and by chance settled later in a small Devon village close to the English Tamar valley. His father, James Lillie, was an insurance manager and his mother Louise Ursula Lillie (née McEachern) was the daught

Stephen Hugh Heaney was born in Dublin on 11 February 1940 and educated there at the High School and Trinity College. He had been admitted to Trinity with an open scholarship in mathematics but decided to read medicine. He won the Silver Medal of the Dublin University Biological Association in 1962

John Bastow was born in India; his father, a civil engineer, was an Australian and his mother was an Englishwoman from Devonshire. His early days were spent in Australia; he was educated at Hutchings School, Hobart, Tasmania, and Ormond College, University of Melbourne, where he studied medicine.

Evan Stanley Evans, the eldest son of David Evans, was born on 2 July 1904. There are no details of his early education before he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. After qualifying in 1927 he was house surgeon at St Bartholomew's and later moved to Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot, where

Woolf Herschell was born in South Africa in 1903 and did his medical training at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, qualifying BA MB Cape Town in 1931. After holding a number of medical appointments in Cape Town he came to England in 1940, and worked at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

Norman Thompson Holden studied medicine at Cambridge University, the Westminster Hospital and Guy's. He was senior registrar to the traumatic and orthopaedic unit at Ashford Hospital, Middlesex, and orthopaedic registrar to Guy's. He was then appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Enfield G

Steven Robert Huddart was born in Cumbria on 18 September 1949. His father, Johnathan William Huddart was a schoolmaster and his mother, Dorothy, a nursing sister. He was educated at Wellingborough Grammar School and subsequently qualified from Westminster Hospital Medical School. His resident hospi

John Frank Herbert Stallman was born in Maida Vale, London, on 14 November 1889. He was the first child of John Henry Zacharia Stallman who was an importer and exporter of crude drugs and spices. He attended Dulwich College and then Guy's Hospital Medical School where he won the Michael Harris Prize

Bryan Tobin Keon-Cohen was born on 1 June 1903, the second son of the Honorable Henry Isaac Cohen, KC, and of Ethel Mary Cohen, a concert pianist. He claimed to be the only renegade from an entirely legal family and was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and then Trinity College in the Universit