James William Douglas Bull, the son of a general practitioner in Buckinghamshire, was educated at Repton and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before securing an entrance scholarship to St George's Hospital Medical School and graduating there in 1936. One of his uncles was a radiologist and

Brian Windeyer was born in Sydney on 7 February 1904, the son of Richard Windeyer QC, a barrister, and Mabel Robinson, whose father had graduated in medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. His family had been associated with the legal profession in Australia for five generations. He was educated at

Born 28 February 1868, the eldest son of Felix Pinch, civil servant on the Irish establishment, and his wife, *née* Hayward. He was educated at King Edward's School, Bath and at Bristol University College Medical School. After clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital he was admitted MRCS in 18

Born on 2 October 1884 at Hazlemere, Woodside Park, Finchley, the fifth child and third son of Alfred Charles Stebbing, merchant, and Elizabeth Elstob, his wife. He was educated at Emanuel School, Wandsworth Common and at Guy's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and out-patients officer, aft