Alexander Walt was a former president of the American College of Surgeons. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1923 and went to school and university there. After qualifying in 1948 he completed his house jobs at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, before winning a Dominion studentship to

Aires Barros D'Sa was a pioneering vascular and trauma surgeon in Belfast. He was born in 1939 in Nairobi, Kenya, into a Goan family. His father, Inaçio Francisco Purifcação Saúde D'Sa, was a civil servant. His mother was Maria Eslina Inês Barros. Aires grew up in Kenya and was educated at Duke of G

John Moore was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in the Chelmsford Hospital Group and to the Regional Orthopaedic Centre, Black Notley, from 1967 to 1994 and, on retirement, an honorary consultant to the Mid-Essex NHS Trust. Born on 10 October 1929, he went to preparatory school in Lytham

Eric Denman was a senior consultant orthopaedic and accident surgeon at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon from 1965 to 1990. Eric was born to Albert Edward Denman and Gertrude Ann Harrison on 19 August 1927. His father was a civil servant; his mother was the daughter of a master mariner an

Sorab Jamshed Sorabsha Lam, known as 'Soli', was a senior consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Bromley and Tunbridge Wells. He was born in Bombay, India, on 22 October 1934, the son of two distinguished lawyers, Jamshed Sorabsha Lam, a solicitor, and Mithan Lam née Tata, a barrister and one

Sean Michael O'Riordan was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Lincoln County Hospital and Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital. He was born in York on 3 August 1944, the eldest of three children of John Joseph O'Riordan, a psychiatrist, and Theresa Margaret O'Riordan née Markham, the daughter of

Alfred Beck was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon in Cardiff. He was born in Uhersky Brod, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic), on 28 January 1912. His father, Ignaz, was a wholesale merchant and councillor, from a prominent family in the Jewish community which included rabbis and business

Jim Ellis was professor of orthopaedic and accident surgery at the University of Southampton. He was born on 13 April 1912 in Selborne, Hampshire, the son of Frank Stokes Ellis, a wine merchant who went on to serve in the First World War with the Royal Fusiliers, and Ada née Parkes, whose family wer

William Michael Harper was professor of orthopaedic trauma at the University of Leicester. Born in Jersey, 'Joe' Harper was proud of his roots in the Channel Islands and was equally fond of the years he spent in Bolton, Lancashire, where he went to school. Harper was one of the pioneering band of st

John Clifford Milner was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Harrogate. He was born in Lancashire and educated at Manchester Grammar School. He went on to Manchester University Medical School, qualifying in 1959. He held junior posts in various Manchester hospitals, including Ancoats.

Peter Alexander Templeton was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary. He was born and grew up in Canada, where his father, an orthopaedic surgeon, was working. The family eventually returned to Belfast, where Templeton studied medicine, qualifying in 1987. He went on to train i

John Raymond Addison was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1916 and educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, New Zealand. He studied medicine at Dunedin and graduated from Otago University in 1940. He joined the medical service of the New Zealand Navy in 1941 and saw active service in the Pacific, At