John Michael Dinham was born in Taunton on 19 February 1936, the son of Alfred Dinham, a motor engineer, and Elsie Winifred, née Pike. He was educated at Taunton School and at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1960, he was appointed house surgeon at St Mary's Hospital and he sub

Ted Dewar was born in Saskatchewan in 1911. His family subsequently moved to Ontario where he received his elementary and secondary education in Orangeville. He was admitted to the University of Toronto Medical School and obtained his MD in 1936. In 1940 he joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Cor

Everard Devenish was born on 26 May 1909 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the son of Louis Devenish, a cocoa planter, and his wife Wilhelmina, née Urich. He received his schooling at St Mary's College in Trinidad and was a Colonial Science Scholar there before his medical training at University College H

William Alexander Law, known as Scottie, was born in Edinburgh on 22 August 1910, the only son of James Law, dental surgeon, and his wife Agnes, née Jarvis. He was educated at Giggleswick School and won an open scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained first class honours in the

George Arden was born in London in 1913, the last of the Ardens who claimed descent from before the Doomsday book. He qualified from University College Hospital where he did junior jobs and passed the FRCS. He then joined the RAFVR as a surgical specialist and was in charge of the surgical divisions

Brian Roper was born in Sheffield on New Year's Day, 1933. His father, Arnold, was a railway executive, and his mother, Nora Tuxford, was the daughter of a master cutler. He was educated at Chesterfield School and Queen's College, Oxford (where he won the Legge Prize) and on to University College Ho

Frank Whitehead Taylor received his medical education at Manchester and Bristol Universities, qualifying MB ChB Manchester in 1939. After serving with the RAF Medical Branch from 1940 to 1946, he decided to specialise in orthopaedics. He subsequently became consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Roya

James Armstrong came from a staunchly medical Belfast family but spent very little of his life in his native province. His father John was a surgeon and sometime Member of Council of the RCS Ireland; his mother Maria, née Rowan, was a doctor, as were three of his brothers and his sister. James wa

Robin Charles Winfield Williams was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He was born on 15 December 1929, the son of F Winfield Williams and Marion Jean Williams. He gained his FRCS in 1960 and was also a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He wa

Christopher John Spivey was an orthopaedic surgeon at Southend Hospital from 1970 to 2000. Born on 3 March 1937, he studied medicine at London University and trained at the London Hospital graduating MB BS in 1960. That same year he passed the conjoint examination and proceeded to gain the fellowshi

Alan Alldred was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and a former President of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 10 June 1920, the son of Joseph Alldred, the assistant head of Brown's Commercial College and Kate, neé Brown, the founder and head of the coll

As a haven for severely disabled rheumatic patients, Bath presents a formidable challenge to the orthopaedic surgeon and it was there that Philip Metcalfe Yeoman excelled in the correction and mobilisation of fixed deformities. He was born into a family of Yorkshire doctors. His grandfather, William