Raymond Carter Hodge was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, Wales. He studied medicine in Bristol, where he gained his MRCS LRCP and MB ChB in 1960. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior house officer in plastic surgery and neurosurgery at Frenchay

James Arnault James was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Kidderminster. He was born on 9 June 1917 in Gwynfe, a thriving farming community in rural Carmarthenshire, Wales. Both his parents, James and Florence (née Jones) were schoolteachers, and had moved to Gwynfe when they married. John and his

Terence Thulbourne was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary. He studied medicine at Sheffield, graduating MB BS in 1960. Prior to his appointment as a consultant he was a senior orthopaedic registrar at Tayside Health Board, an orthopaedic registrar at King's College Hospital,

Mansooklall Mohan Raghavjee was an orthopaedic surgeon in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1986.

Derek Randal Richard was an orthopaedic surgeon at Whipps Cross Hospital and Forest Hospital, Buckhurst Hill. He was born in London on 10 March 1924, the second son of Arthur Richard, a captain in the Royal Navy, and Katherine Emily Richard née Dalzell. He was educated at Winton House, Winchester, a

David Evans was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Queen Mary's and the Westminster Hospital, London. He was born in London on 21 September 1919, the son of Arthur Evans OBE FRCS who was a general surgeon at the Westminster and Royal Masonic Hospitals and his wife, Dorothy, née Briant. His eldest b

David Haw was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in York who had very broad interests, but enjoyed paediatrics as a subspecialty. He had an abiding interest in clinical anatomy, and in retirement taught anatomy to medical students for 11 years. He was born on 17 September 1926 at Batticaloa, Ceylon,

The eldest son of Dr Matthias Roth, of Wimpole Street; studied at University College Hospital, where he was House Surgeon under Sir Henry Thompson, and also in Paris, Brussels, Vienna, and Berlin. He joined his father in orthopaedic practice in 1875, devoting himself especially to lateral curvature

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

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

The elder son of C B Barnett of Southampton, he was born in 1893 and was educated at Birmingham University, whence he proceeded to the Middlesex and University College Hospitals. He joined the East Lancashire Regiment as a combatant at the beginning of the war of 1914, before he had qualified, but w

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