John Leonard Wilkinson, known as Len, was a medical missionary and superintendent of Nixon Memorial Hospital, Segbwema, Sierra Leone and the author of *Neuroanatomy for medical students* (Bristol, John Wright & Sons Ltd, 1986). He was born in Kidderminster on 24 May 1924 to John Thomas Wilkinson, a

Eustace Victor Hope, the younger son and second of three children of Herbert Ashworth Hope, a barrister and company chairman, was born on 3 June 1914 at Church Stretton, Shropshire. He was educated at Stowe School and Trinity College, Cambridge, before entering St Thomas's Hospital Medical School an