Huw Owen Thomas was an orthopaedic surgeon at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals on the Wirral. He was born in 1941 into a medical family. He gained his MB BCh in Cardiff in 1966 and was a house surgeon in the accident unit at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. He went on to train in orthopaedic surge

David Verinder was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for the Bassetlaw Health Authority, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Born in 1945, he studied medicine at Sheffield University Medical School and qualified in 1968. He gained his FRCS in 1973. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior regist

James Anthony Walden Fitzgerald was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Southampton and at the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, Alton. He studied at Cambridge University and at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1961. He gained his FRCS in 1965. Prior to his consultant appointment, he

Eric Baijal was born in India in 1918 and graduated in medicine in 1945 from the University of Agra. He came to England in 1950 for further training in surgery and in 1954 obtained the FRCS. He served in the British Colonial Service as a surgical specialist in Western Nigeria and Sierra Leone before

Chris Good was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Newham General, Queen Mary's and Blackheath hospitals in London. He was born in Barnstaple, Devon, in 1946. His father was clerk of works for South Molton. When Chris was eight the family moved to Northern Rhodesia; his father became cler

Alexander Kates qualified in medicine from St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was a house surgeon. He became registrar at the Postgraduate Medical School, London, and then consultant in orthopaedic and traumatic surgery to the Kensington and Westminster Area Health Authority. During the second world

Ronald Lawrie Huckstep was the inaugural professor of trauma and orthopaedic surgery at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and before that at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He was born in Chefoo, China, on 22 July 1926. His father, Herbert George Huckstep, was appointed dir

Laurence ('Laurie') Read was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, Worcestershire. He initially became a teacher, during which time he spent two years in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He then took up a place at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School as a mat

Thomas Hubert Morgan studied medicine at Cambridge and University College Hospital. He became first assistant to the accident service at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and senior orthopaedic registrar and Nuffield research fellow to the Wingfield-Morris Hospital, Oxford. He moved to Swindon and be

Miles Kingsmill Moore was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Ashford Hospital, Middlesex and Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot. He was born in Dublin in September 1929 and studied medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, qualifying in 1953. He was a surgical registrar at Luton and Dunstable Hos

Akos Béla Nevelös was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Bradford. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 November 1942, the son of Austin Nevelös and Emily Rosdy, both of whom were teachers. He was educated in state schools in Hungary, where he won prizes in physics and mathematics in the national

Sid Gough attended Manchester University where he qualified in 1960. He did his training in orthopaedics at Manchester Royal Infirmary and the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham. He was appointed consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery at the Hope Hospital and Salford Royal Hospital. He die