Born at Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1903, he was educated at St Joseph's College and studied medicine at Sydney University, graduating in 1926. He was house surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for one year and at the Prince Henry Hospital for a further year, before he entered private prac

Born on 18 July 1900, the son of John William and Eileen MacFarland from Northern Ireland, he spent nearly the whole of his life in Liverpool and was educated at Wallasey Grammar School and Liverpool University where he qualified in 1922. From 1922 to 1925 he held a series of resident appointments a

Educated at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1931, he held appointments at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London and the General Hospital, Birmingham. During the second world war MacGowan was an orthopaedic specialist in the RAF, and after the war he settled in York as an orthop

Born on 3 November 1921 the son of A C McMillan of Huddersfield, he was educated at Leeds Medical School, qualifying in 1945. He served as demonstrator of pathology in the School and as house surgeon at the General Infirmary. Deciding to specialise in orthopaedics he took the Fellowship in 1952, was

Born on 13 August 1892 Sydney Malkin was educated at Epworth College, Rhyl, and University College Hospital, London. After qualifying in 1915 he went on active service in France as a regimental medical officer. After the war he held resident posts in London at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

Derek Willey Purser was born near Heywood, Lancashire, on 14 June 1922, and was educated at Heywood Grammar School and Manchester University where he graduated MB ChB in 1946. After house appointments he took the FRCS in 1951 and served for two years as an orthopaedic surgeon in the Army in Germany.

John Harrington Pusey was born on 19 January 1940 and was educated at Chesham Boy's Preparatory School, Bucks, and at Wycliffe College, Stone-house, Gloucestershire. For his medical education he came to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the MB

Francis Allan was born on March 21 1900, received his medical education at St Thomas's Hospital and qualified in 1925. After holding a resident post at his teaching hospital he became an assistant at the Royal Cripples' Hospital, Birmingham, and thereafter spent his professional life in the Midlands

Born in India on 24 February 1901, son of Major-General Philip Mackay Ellis OBE, AMS, he was educated at Wellington College and Clare College, Cambridge, where he took second class honours in Parts I and II of the Natural Sciences Tripos 1922 and 1923. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital, qu

Roth was born in Brighton in 1882 the son of B M S Roth FRCS, FSA (1852-1915), who introduced the methods of Hugh Owen Thomas to London and was also a distinguished numismatist and himself the son of Matthias Roth MD (1819-91) an orthopaedic surgeon practising in Wimpole Street. Roth's mother, Mr

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

Gerald Marin trained at Guy's and became surgical registrar to St Olave's Hospital. He moved to the USA where he became an orthopaedic surgeon and area medical officer in Buffalo, New York State. He is believed to have died sometime in 2001.