George Selvaratnam Sinnatamby was born on 10 April 1892, and was educated at St Thomas's College, Colombo, and the Ceylon Medical College, graduating LMS in 1916. As a student he won the Matthew gold medal and the Diploma medal. In 1920 he came to England for postgraduate studies at St Bartholomew's

John Candy was born at Newport, Monmouthshire, on 8 January 1924, the son of Thomas Ignatius Candy, MD Belfast, a consulting radiologist. His paternal uncle was a general practitioner in Edinburgh. He was educated at Dolgelly Grammar School and Guy's Hospital Medical School which he entered in 1941.

Born on 3 March 1907 in Dundee, Angus, Walter Campbell was the son of Henry Gordon Campbell LRCP, LRCS, LDS, RCS Ed, the first Professor of Dental Surgery in University College, St Andrews University. His grandfather, Walter Campbell, obtained the LDS England in 1861, the second year of the establis

Born on 28 March 1889 in London, he was educated at King William College, Isle of Man and St Bartholomew's Hospital. While at the latter he gained the Jeafferson exhibition and Foster prize and while still a student volunteered for service with the Greek forces during the Balkan War of 1912-13 for w

Harold Vellacott was born in 1883, the son of an Essex farmer. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1907 from the London Hospital Medical College and took the Fellowship in 1910. He settled at Devonport as a general practitioner surgeon and was appointed to the staff of the Royal Albert Hospita

Arthur Lawrence Abel was born on 15 November 1895, the son of the Reverend Arthur E Abel, a congregational minister, and he preached in his father's pulpit at the age of 18 years. He did his medical training at University College Hospital, graduating in 1917. He obtained the Fellowship of the Royal

Born on 26 January 1889 son of Edward Ingram Taylor and Margaret Boole, he was educated at University College School, University College and University College Hospital, where he qualified in November 1911 with the Conjoint Diploma, following this up with the qualifying degrees of London University

Harry Teesdale Simmons was born on 17 February 1903, and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University where he graduated MB ChB in 1924. He then spent a year in junior hospital appointments, and afterwards worked in physiology obtaining the BSc in 1926, presumably as part of his b

Born on 11 October 1906 at Oswaldtwistle, the son of a textile chemist, Alec Lomax Kenyon studied medicine at the University of Manchester where he won prizes in surgery, pathology and paediatrics. He was house surgeon and casualty officer at the Royal Infirmary and subsequently resident surgical of

Hari Ker was born at Stafford on 4 November 1924 and received his medical education at King's College, London, and Charing Cross Hospital, where he qualified MRCS, LRCP and MB, BS London in 1948. He was awarded the Pickering Prize at King's College and the public health prize at Charing Cross Hospit

John Henry Kettle studied at Sydney University where he was President of the Medical Society 1952-3. He graduated MB BS in 1951 and became resident medical officer at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney 1951-2. He came to England and was surgical registrar at St Luke's Hospital, Guildford, Surr

Bruce Campbell Hardy was born in Toronto and graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1935. He did postgraduate work in England and was admitted to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1939. He was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.