Roger Croton was born on 2 April 1948 in Colne, Lancashire. After early education at St Joseph's College, Trent Vale, he studied medicine at Sheffield University and held junior posts in Sheffield, Derby and Liverpool before being appointed consultant surgeon to Warrington District General Hospital

Maurice James Bennett-Jones was born in Liverpool on 30 November 1906, his father was William James Bennett-Jones, consultant anaesthetist to Liverpool Royal Infirmary and his mother was Dr Daly - a Doctor of Medicine and a JP. He was educated at Rossall School, Fleetwood, and Liverpool University w

Louis Amos Bennett was born in Nelson, New Zealand, on 16 October 1896. His father was John Bennett, farmer and storekeeper and his mother was Annie, née Ryde. He was educated at Central School, Nelson and Nelson College where he was awarded the junior and senior national scholarships and the Fell S

Wilfred Carlisle Barber was born at Manchester on 2 June 1907. His father was a medical practitioner who graduated MB ChB in Edinburgh in 1899. Barber was educated at Hulme Grammar School, Manchester, and Sutton Valence School, obtaining a leaving exhibition to St John's College, Cambridge. After ga

Ronald Ludlow Benison was born on 22 November 1908. He was educated at Cambridge University and St Bartholemew's Hospital, London where he qualified in 1934. In due course he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Wolverhampton Group of Hospitals. Ronald Benison had a distinguished academic record

John Coates was born in May 1911 and was educated at Keighley Grammar School and Leeds University. He had a distinguished academic career, graduating BSc with first-class honours in 1933 and qualifying three years later with honours. After various resident appointments at Leeds he became demonstr

Born at Rochester, Minnesota, 28 July 1898, son of Charles Horace Mayo and his wife Edith Graham. After leaving Princeton he studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1927, when he joined the Mayo Foundation as a Fellow in Surgery, the fourth member of that remarkable family

Born on 20 January 1920 the son of Walter S Turnbull of Neville's Cross, an official of the Durham County Council, he was educated at the Johnston Grammar School, Durham and at Newcastle Medical School. He qualified with second-class honours in 1942, and served as house surgeon at the Royal Victoria

Born at Kensington on 27 December 1873 one of the three sons of Arthur James Turner, he was educated at King's and University Colleges, London, graduating in science in 1894, and qualified from Guy's Hospital in 1897. He won honours in forensic medicine at the MB examination in 1899 and took the MS

Cyril Charles Cookson was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, on 14 November 1906. His father, Charles William, was a treasurer at the Blue Coat School in Walsall and King Edward's Grammar School, Aston, Birmingham. He married Miss Bull in 1937. He studied at Birmingham Medical School passing MB ChB

Robert Victor Cooke was born at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, on 17 May 1902, the eldest son of John Cooke and Rose Eva O'Neill. He was educated at Lydney Grammar School, on the opposite side of the Severn estuary. He entered Bristol University to study chemistry, but later transferred to the faculty o

Subhendra Narayan Basu was thought to be working at the Durgapur Projects Hospital in West Bengal when he died sometime in the late 1970s.