Hiralal Vadilal Shah was born in Tarasali Tal-Baroda in Gujarat State, India. He went to the Shre Sayaji High School in Baroda and he entered Grant Medical College in Bombay, qualifying in 1952, his clinical training being at the Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals. After obtaining his FRCS he joined t

David Stanley Leitch was born in Leeton, New South Wales, on 9 January 1923, the son of John Stanley Leitch, a farmer and grazier and Marian, née Killen. He was educated at All Saints' College, Bathurst, New South Wales and at St Andrew's College, Sydney University, before joining the Australian Arm

John de Beaux spent much of his career working in the Colonial Medical Service, and then worked in Elgin, Scotland, as a consultant surgeon. He was born in Amritsar, India, on 3 December 1921, into an old Anglo-Indian family with many connections in the Colonial Service. His father, Louis Dudley de

Ian Cour-Palais was educated at Cambridge and the Westminster Hospital where he qualified in 1955. After junior posts, during which he carried out an important study on retractile testes, so often misdiagnosed as being undescended, he returned to the Westminster as senior registrar. He was appointed

Leslie Turner studied medicine at Manchester and after junior posts in Manchester and Ancoats Hospital became consultant surgeon at the Withington Hospital and the Christie Hospital and Hold Radium Institute. He was a member of the Court of Examiners and an Arris and Gale lecturer in the College. He

After qualifying from Sydney University, he worked in New Zealand 1953-1955 holding house appointments at Dannevirke Hospital, Hawke's Bay and Dunedin Hospital and as surgical registrar at Christchurch Hospital. He came to England in 1956, and after periods at St James's Hospital, the London Ches

Puspanathan Sadasivan Vaithilingam was born in Durban, on 19 September 1927, the eldest son in a family of eight brothers and one sister. His father, Sadasivan Vaithilingam, was a successful farmer, and his mother was Pappathee, née Reddy. After schooling at Sastri College he emigrated to Scotland i

Francis Sandor was born in Budapest on 13 July 1905. His father, Ignac, was a businessman in Budapest and his mother, Jenni Cipszer, was a teacher. He left Hungary with the advent of Communism and went back to medical school in Edinburgh and re-qualified as LRFPS (Glasgow) in 1952. He originally tra

Dick Aldridge was a surgeon in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born in Auckland on 18 June 1930. He was educated at Palmerston North Boys High School, where he was dux of the school. He attended Victoria University College and qualified from Otago Medical School in 1953. He was a house surgeon in We