Lawrence Herbert Hansen was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1929 and after early education at Palmerston Boys' High School entered the University of Otago Medical School, qualifying in 1955. After early hospital appointments in Wellington he came to England to work as surgical registrar at

Robin Azariah was born in India, the grandson of the first Bishop of the United Church of South India. He received his medical training at the Christian Medical College at Vellore where he graduated in 1955 but he travelled to England for much of his surgical training. His main interests were in ort

John Bull was the first consultant general surgeon to be appointed to the newly-built Crawley and Horsham Hospital. He was also on the staff at East Grinstead, and worked at Gatwick Park Hospital from 1984. He was born in London on 12 May 1934, the son of John Bull, a businessman, and his wife, Joyc

Born in London on 20 February 1931 to Harris Berkley, a pharmacist and Dora Le Vine, Reginald Maurice Berkley was educated at King Edward VII School, King's Lynn. He went to Melbourne in 1950, where he studied medicine at the University of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Hospital. After graduating

Ian Reay McCaul was born in 1916 and after his early education entered Glasgow University, qualifying in 1941. After early hospital appointments he passed the Fellowship of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow eight years after qualifying and undertook specialist training in neuro

Gerry Kilcoyne was born on 24 January 1927 in Glasgow to a general practitioner father, Dr Patrick Kilcoyne and his wife Rita, née McNulty. He was educated at Clongowes College Dublin, the National University of Ireland, Wood College and University College, Dublin. He held house appointments at St L

Pundalika Shenoi was born on 28 September 1933 in Mangalore, Southern India, into a family of numerous medical men, although his father, Gopal Krishna Shenoi, was a merchant. His early education was in the University of Madras and Andrha Medical College, where he gained the MB degree with three gold

John Spencer was a reader in surgery at Hammersmith Hospital, London. He was born in Bedford on 17 July 1933, the son of Arthur George Victor Spencer, a soldier, and Nellie née Housden. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, whence he won a state scholarship to study medicine at Charing Cross Hos

Terry Botting was an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon. He was born on 3 January 1934 in Birmingham. His father, Royston Eric Jack Botting, was a machine tool setter, and his mother was Jessica Sarah née Tidmarsh. He was educated at Bablake School, Coventry, and Birmingham University. He became cons

Terence Young was a consultant surgeon in the Peterborough area. He was born in India in 1931, where his father was a missionary surgeon, but grew up in north Wales. As a boy he started hill walking, encouraged first by his father and later by the headmaster’s secretary at his school, Rydal in Colwy

Born in Tarakeswar, West Bengal, India on 1 August 1928, Sankar Das Sarkar's father, Nilmadhab Sarkar, was a general practitioner. His mother, Kanaklata Mitra, was the daughter of a district judge in Bengal. His father died when he was only eight, and he went through years of struggle and insecurity

Brian Stephen Cox was educated at Christ's Hospital, Bristol, from where he gained entry to Cambridge, intending to study physics. He changed to medicine and in 1954 to St George's Hospital where he was one of the stalwarts of the rugby XV and the rowing VIII. He graduated MB BCh in 1957. After hous