Geoffrey Newton was an orthopaedic surgeon in Derby and one of the pioneers of knee replacement surgery. He was born on 17 July 1930 in Salford, Greater Manchester, one of three children of a sheet metal worker and his wife. From Stockport School, he won a state scholarship to read medicine at Manch

A J G Howse was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Central Middlesex Hospital who became the foremost authority on acute and chronic injuries affecting ballet dancers. He was a consultant to the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Ballet Company. His other interest of note was in the development of a modif

Sydney Michael Lewis Nade was foundation professor of orthopaedics at the University of Western Australia. His parents, Louis Nade, an electrical engineer from Warsaw Polytechnic, and Ludwika Nade née Kaftal, a law graduate, fled to Australia from Poland in 1938. Their first son, Sydney, named in ho

Born on 19 August 1875, the eldest of the three children of Samuel Daw and his wife, *née* Davy; he was educated privately. Daw qualified at the age of thirty from the medical school of Guy's Hospital, where he then served as resident surgical officer. After serving as resident surgical officer and

Fisher was born at Salisbury in 1844, and entered St George's Hospital in 1863. After serving the usual term of a year as house surgeon and an additional three months owing to a death vacancy, he was asked in 1871 to take the post of house physician for six months. The post was additional to the nor

Born on 9 February 1883, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Jenner Verrall (1852-1929), MRCS, and Mary Elizabeth Catt, his wife. Sir Thomas was consulting surgeon to the Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, and a vice-president of the British Medical Association. Paul Verrall was educated at Winchester and T

Paul Harald Osterberg was an orthopaedic surgeon in Belfast. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 28 October 1926, but spent his early years in New York, before his father's civil engineering career took the family to Ireland. His father Harald Østerberg also served as consul general for Denmark i

Born at The Close, Stratton St Margaret, near Swindon on 29 March 1906 the only son and eldest of the three children of E Francis Glynn, major, Royal Field Artillery (TF) and Phyllis Anne, his wife, daughter of Philip Glynn Messent, chief engineer to the River Tyne Commissioners. He was educated at

Born at Blackburn, Lancashire, on 4 September 1882, the eldest of the two sons and three daughters of George Ollerenshaw, JP, merchant, of Cherry Tree near Blackburn, and his wife Hannah Higginbottom. His father later lived at Glossop, Derbyshire. Ollerenshaw was educated at Manchester Grammar Schoo

Duncan Davidson Cranna, son of Robert Cranna MB, ChB Aberdeen 1901, of Bolton, was born on 24 June 1909, and was educated at Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh, and at Manchester University. He graduated MB, ChB in 1934 and obtained the Conjoint Diploma in the same year. His interest in orthopaedic surger

Stanley Aubrey Jenkins was born in Cardiff on 3 April 1914, the son of Stanley Eugene Jenkins, chief clerk to a ship repairing firm, and Gladys Eliza, nee Bowers. He was educated at Cardiff High School before entering the University of Wales for his pre-clinical studies and graduating BSc in 1933 as

John Stanley Batchelor was a member of a distinguished medical family in New Zealand. His grandfather, Ferdinand Campion Batchelor MRCS 1871, trained at Guy's and emigrated to Dunedin in 1874 where he established an obstetrics and gynaecology practice, becoming the University of Otago's first Profes