John Fixsen was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London; by the time of his retirement he was unsurpassed as a children's orthopaedic surgeon in the UK and in great demand as a teacher, lecturer and surgeon worldwide. John was brought up in Altrincham and excelled at

Sydney Mahaindra Nauth Jaikaran was a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He was born in British Guiana on 5 January 1934, the youngest of nine children. In 1952 he won a Guyana scholarship to study medicine at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Four