Thomas King was born in Melbourne, Australia on 17 January 1899, the son of a barrister. He was educated at Xavier College, Melbourne, and Melbourne University. He qualified MB BS in 1924, MD 1932 and obtained the FRCS in 1934. He was elected FRACS in 1934 and the same year appointed honorary orthop

Harold Jackson Burrows was born at Harrow, Middlesex, on 9 May 1902. His father was Harold Burrows FRCS and his grandfather was a graduate of St Bartholomew's Hospital, who became a Surgeon-Major in the Bombay Army. He was educated at Edinburgh House, Lee-on-Solent and Cheltenham College, where he w

Stephen Hugh Heaney was born in Dublin on 11 February 1940 and educated there at the High School and Trinity College. He had been admitted to Trinity with an open scholarship in mathematics but decided to read medicine. He won the Silver Medal of the Dublin University Biological Association in 1962

Ralph Brooke did his medical training at Guy's where he was house surgeon and out-patients' officer. He became general surgeon to the Worthing Hospital and orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal County Hospital. During the second world war he was appointed surgical specialist for the 21st General Hospital

Edward Phillimore Brockman was born at Liverpool in 1895 and educated at Liverpool College and at Cambridge. His university career was interrupted by the first world war, when he served in the Royal Navy before returning to St Thomas's Hospital. He qualified in 1919 and proceeded in due course to th

Trevor Llewellyn Bowen was born at Newport, Monmouthshire, on 12 March 1932 and attended schools in Wales before entering King's College, London, and King's College Hospital Medical School. After graduating in 1955 he undertook general resident appointments before working in the orthopaedic departme

Steven Robert Huddart was born in Cumbria on 18 September 1949. His father, Johnathan William Huddart was a schoolmaster and his mother, Dorothy, a nursing sister. He was educated at Wellingborough Grammar School and subsequently qualified from Westminster Hospital Medical School. His resident hospi

Born on 3 November 1903, the son of Dr H M Wood and Lola Lyon-Campbell, Hubert Lyon-Campbell Wood was educated at Marlborough College and King's College Hospital, London, where he qualified in 1926. In the following year he obtained the MB BS London with honours. His house appointments at King's wer

Anthony Stuart Yarker Platten gained BCh in 1965 and MB Cambridge in 1966. He gained Membership and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1970. He was registrar at the accident unit at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon. A member of the British Medical Association, he was orthopaedic r

After qualifying MB BS from London University in 1946 Eric Martin Kupfer worked as a house surgeon at Ashford County Hospital and Westminster Hospital. He then became registrar in the fractures and orthopaedics department of the East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital. Finally he was consultant in orthopa

George Perkins was born in Staines, Middlesex, on 22 September 1892, the second child and elder son of George James Perkins, a butcher, and Lilian Straker, a retired stationer. Perkins was deeply indebted to his father whom he described as a 'marvellous man' who left school at the age of 12 and late

John Stanger was a prominent orthopaedic surgeon in and around Newcastle-upon-Tyne, serving the Royal Victoria Infirmary from his appointment in 1934 until retirement in 1973. He devoted much time to building up an integrated orthopaedic service in Newcastle and was also consultant to the W J Sander