James Arnault James was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Kidderminster. He was born on 9 June 1917 in Gwynfe, a thriving farming community in rural Carmarthenshire, Wales. Both his parents, James and Florence (née Jones) were schoolteachers, and had moved to Gwynfe when they married. John and his

David Evans was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Queen Mary's and the Westminster Hospital, London. He was born in London on 21 September 1919, the son of Arthur Evans OBE FRCS who was a general surgeon at the Westminster and Royal Masonic Hospitals and his wife, Dorothy, née Briant. His eldest b

Colin Dent was clinical Professor of orthopaedic surgery at Cardiff University. He was born on 16 July 1959 and, due to his father's death when he was a teenager, he left school early to work in a laboratory. However he managed to obtain a place at University College London to study medicine in 1979

Jonathan George Cochrane was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to St John's Hospital, Livingston, and Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital, Edinburgh. He was born on 17 November 1941 and was educated in Fareham and at Purbrook Park County High School. He began his career in London, qualifying

Martin Brett was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Salisbury, based at Odstock Hospital and Salisbury General Infirmary. He was born on 1 January 1923 in Sheerness to Joseph and Margaret Brett. Joseph Brett was born in 1893 and educated at Faversham Grammar School and then Gonville and Caius Colle

Born on 19 August 1875, the eldest of the three children of Samuel Daw and his wife, *née* Davy; he was educated privately. Daw qualified at the age of thirty from the medical school of Guy's Hospital, where he then served as resident surgical officer. After serving as resident surgical officer and

Sir Rodney Sweetnam was undoubtedly the doyen of orthopaedic surgery of his generation. He had many talents. Foremost, he was a natural surgeon, gifted with great operative dexterity. He was also a pioneer in the research and management of bone tumours, and, thirdly, was an outstanding committee cha

Born near Lyon in 1868, he had a brilliant school and university career there. He qualified in 1893 with a thesis on difficulties of bone-growth following experimental and clinical lesions of the conjugatory cartilages. Nové-Josserand intended to enter the factories of the Creusot engineering compan

Born in Hertfordshire on 25 May 1891 and educated at Repton and University College Hospital, where he qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1915, he served in the RAMC during the war of 1914-18, attained the rank of Major, and then joined his father-in-law's Brighton practice for a short time. Mechanical thing

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

Richard William Porter was a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon in Aberdeen. He was born on 16 February 1935 in Doncaster, the son of J Luther Porter, a china merchant and Methodist minister, and Mary Field. He was educated at Oundle and Edinburgh University, and completed his surgical training at Ed

Blundell Jones was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Exeter. He was born on 10 June 1915, in Blackpool, Lancashire, the eldest son of William Jones, the principal of a technical college, and Elizabeth Blundell. He was educated at Arnold School, Blackpool, and University College Hospital London, wh