Thomas Emanuel Antonie was a general surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne between 1961 and 1986. Tom Antonie was born in 1921 and received his secondary education at St Patrick's College, East Melbourne, matriculating in 1940. He studied medicine at Melbourne University graduating in 1945.

Leon Abrams was a cardiothoracic surgeon who developed the first variable-rate heart pacemaker. He was born in Leeds, but his family soon moved to Birmingham, where he spent most of his life, apart from a short period of National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. After medical school in Bi

Bob Owen was a professor of orthopaedic surgery at Liverpool University and a consultant at the Royal Liverpool Hospital and the Royal Liverpool Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. He was born in Chwilog on the Lleyn peninsula, north Wales, the son of Griffith Owen, a farmer and butcher, and Laura Mary O

Selwyn Griffin was born at St Helen's, Lancashire, on 3 May 1913. His father, George Harold Barlow Griffin, was a headmaster, and his mother was Ada Ann, née Gerrard. He was educated at St Helen's and Liverpool University, where he was influenced by Sir Robert Kelly and Sir Reginald Watson-Jones. He

Michael Cox was born in Camberley, Surrey, on 14 April 1922, the son of Colonel Michael Cox of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. From Bradfield School he went to Corpus Christi Cambridge, and then to St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1946. He did house appointments at St Thomas's and then

Robin Denham was an orthopaedic surgeon in Portsmouth. He was born on 18 April 1922, and studied medicine at St Thomas’s medical school in London, qualifying in 1945. He was a senior registrar at Rowley Bristow Hospital in Pyrford and at St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey. He was subsequently appointed t

Nur Ahmad Khan Seyal was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology and a former principal of King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan. He was born on 16 July 1920 and received his early education in his home town of Jhang (Punjab). In 1936 he went to study medicine at Glancy Medical College, Amri

Anthony Hugh Cyril Ratliff (known as 'Tony' or 'Ratty') was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary. He was born in London on 18 August 1921, the first child of Sidney Ratliff, a leather manufacturer, and Mary Ratliff née Plaskett. He was educated at William Hulme's Grammar Schoo

Gordon Cassie was a general surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Hospital in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, where he provided surgical services from 1962 until his retirement in 1986, with only one half-time colleague. Cassie was born in Aberdeen, the second son of James Harvey Cassie, a

John Bastable was a consultant urologist at York. Born in 1923, he spent his childhood in Cornwall and studied medicine at Birmingham. He qualified in 1945. After National Service, he was a registrar to Alan Perry at Poplar Hospital and then at the London Hospital, where he became senior lecturer on

The only son of Henry Kenneth Victor Soltau MD, David Soltau was born in Barnstaple, North Devon, on 13 May 1920. His mother was Nora Ramscar née Wright, the daughter of a chartered accountant. He was educated at Epsom College and Queen's College, Cambridge, before going on to Bristol to do his clin

Tom Burke was a consultant surgeon at the South Infirmary in Cork, Ireland. He was born in Bandon in County Cork, the youngest child of Edward (‘Ned’) Burke and Mary Burke née Desmond. He was educated at Warner’s Lane National School and, after the family moved to Cork City in 1928, at the Presentat