Bruce Hay was born in Auckland, New Zealand on 31 May 1913, the elder son of Douglas Baird Hay and Ethna Cherie Pierce. His father was a sharebroker and his mother was manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company. He was educated at Southwell School, Hamilton, King's College, Auckland, and Otago Uni

James Richard Hayes was born at Alfreton, Derbyshire, on 4 June 1933. He was the son of James Alfred Hayes, a mining engineer, and Gladys, née Rusby. He was educated at Mansfield Grammar School for Boys and received his medical education at the University of Birmingham where he qualified in 1957. Fo

Reginald Broomhead was born in Beeston in Nottinghamshire and attended Ackworth School, before receiving his medical training in Leeds. He qualified in 1925 and was appointed house surgeon to Lord Moynihan. Later he developed an increasing interest in orthopaedic surgery and spent time not only with

John James Woodward qualified MB BS in Melbourne in 1935 and proceeded to a post of resident medical officer at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, the following year. He then worked at the Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in 1937 before joining the Indian Medical Service in which he served throughout the

Robert William Edmund Knowles was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on 5 May 1936, the son of Robert Barton Knowles, a medical practitioner and Kathleen, née Pearson, a dental surgeon. His early education was at Broughton Hall, Eccleshall, Staffordshire, and at Repton, before entering medical school

Born in Stockport, Cheshire, in 1905, Arthur Noel Birkett was educated at Stockport Grammar School and Manchester University where he graduated MB ChB in 1930. He held resident posts at Manchester Royal Infirmary and he demonstrated anatomy in the department of Professor J S B Stopford. He then beca

James Christopher Scott was born on 16 August 1908 in Toronto, Canada, the son of James Scott, a merchant, and Olive (née Webb). He was educated at the University of Toronto School and then at the University of Toronto and Toronto General Hospital. On graduating in 1932 he was an intern at his teach

Herbert John Seddon was born on 13 July 1903 in Derby, the elder son of John Seddon, who worked in the Union Cold Storage Company, and of Ellen (née Thornton). He spent his childhood in Manchester and was educated at the William Hulme Grammar School from whence he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital M

Born on 24 September 1881 at Watford, Ontario, Edwin Algernon was the son of Neville James Lindsay, a pioneer doctor who was the first Canadian Government Physician to the Blackfoot, Stony and Sarcee Indians. As a boy of four he saw the driving of the 'last spike' of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Af

John Mayer was born in Hampstead, London, on 18 January 1913, the son of Harold Mayer, a china and glass merchant, and Madge (née Nathan). He was educated at Brighton College and Guy's Hospital, qualifying in 1935. After house posts there and a demonstratorship he passed the FRCS in 1938 and was reg

William Sayle-Creer, the eldest son of William Sayle-Creer, a cashier, and of Rosa (née Veale) was born at Bootle, Lancashire, on 4 June 1903. After early education at Darne School, Ormskirk, he secured a state scholarship to Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby, before graduating from Liverpool Univers

Aravind Keshav Talwalkar passed the Conjoint Diploma in 1936 and became a Fellow of the College the following year. He returned to India and practised at the Fracture and Orthopaedic Hospital, Bombay. He died on 23 March 1985 survived by his son, Dr C A Talwalkar.