Christopher Donald Farrier was born in Shenfield, Essex on 30 November 1930. He was the only child of Frederick John Farrier, a decorator, and his wife Daisy Anne née Seward. Educated at Harrow County School, he studied medicine at King’s College London and St George’s Hospital Medical School, qual

Neil Boughey was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Pilgrim Hospital, Boston, Lincolnshire. He was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, on 3 January 1931. His father, William Boughey, was born in Dublin in 1874 and worked as a solicitor in Ireland for many years. He married Eileen Hosken, a Cor