Neville Howard Morgan was born on 9 December 1910, in Brisbane, the son of Dr T Howard Morgan who was born in Milford Haven, Wales, and became the senior surgeon of the Brisbane General Hospital. Neville was educated at Scots College, Warwick, and Brisbane Grammar School where he won an open Scholar

Leonard Angliss was educated in Melbourne and after graduation held resident appointments at the Alfred Hospital, 1946-48. He then came to England, taking the Membership in 1953 and the Fellowship nine years later. He worked as chief assistant to the clinical director at the Birmingham Accident H

Morris Axford was born in England in 1902 and came to New Zealand with his parents, Dr and Mrs S B Axford, in 1907. He was educated at Te Aroha School and Auckland Grammar School. He entered the University of Otago Medical School in 1920 with a University National Scholarship. He graduated MB ChB in

William Henry Hyde Joseph de Wolffe de Wytt was born on 20 November 1910 at Wood Green, London. His father had at one time been Professor of Pharmacology in the University at Aberdeen. He was educated at Holloway Secondary School, St Bartholomew's Hospital and after his father's death, at University

Robert Young Paton was born on 18 January 1894 in Perth, the son of Dr Edward Ley Paton, and was educated at Perth Academy and St Andrew's University, where he was Matheson Scholar. He came to St Mary's Hospital for his clinical studies which were interrupted in 1917 when he served for over a year a

Harry Archibald Pearce went to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1937, graduating with the London University MB BS in the same year. He became casualty house surgeon at St Bartholomew's, and developing a special interest in orthopaedics early in his

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

Denis Dunn was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 25 February 1916. His father Herbert Gibson Dunn was a sales representative in drapery: his mother was Frances Ethelwyn née Hawdon. From the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he entered Durham University and completed his clinical studies at the

Anthony Stuart Yarker Platten gained BCh in 1965 and MB Cambridge in 1966. He gained Membership and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1970. He was registrar at the accident unit at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon. A member of the British Medical Association, he was orthopaedic r

Born at Salem, Massachusetts on 6 July 1873, son of John Osgood he graduated MD at the Harvard Medical School in 1899, and began to practise as an orthopaedic surgeon in Boston. Not long afterwards, in 1903, he published a paper on lesions of the tibial tubercle occurring during adolescence, this be

Bruce Geaney was a respected orthopaedic surgeon in Toowoomba, Australia. He was born in Brisbane on 1 November 1926 and educated at Slade Anglican Church Grammar School in Warwick. He went on to study medicine at Queensland University, graduating in 1949. He was a keen sportsman, swimming for the u

George Perkins was born in Staines, Middlesex, on 22 September 1892, the second child and elder son of George James Perkins, a butcher, and Lilian Straker, a retired stationer. Perkins was deeply indebted to his father whom he described as a 'marvellous man' who left school at the age of 12 and late