John Dawson was appointed consultant surgeon to King's College Hospital in 1965, at the early age of 32. The second son of Leslie Joseph Dawson and Mabel née Jayes, he was born in Leicester, and received his education at the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys. He qualified MB BS with honours in patho

Brian Maurice was a consultant general surgeon at Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells. He was born on 28 July 1927 in Sutton, Macclesfield, Cheshire, the elder son of Norman B Maurice, a chemist who carried out pioneering research into synthetic nylon, and his wife Dorothy (née Armstead), wh

Ivan Johnston was professor of surgery at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and made major contributions to endocrine surgery. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 4 October 1929, the son of David Johnston, a company secretary, and Mary née Clarke, and was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institut