Born in 1940 in Hove, Sussex, the son of a general practitioner, George Nigel Boobbyer was educated at Prestonville, Brighton, and Haileybury. He read medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, graduating MB BS London, in 1964 and gaining the Conjoint Diploma in that year. He was house surgeon i

Richard Clive Whalley, the son of Richard and of Gladys Whalley (née Grant), was born on 19 February 1931 at Haywards Heath, Sussex. After education at Hollingbury Court and Haileybury College, he entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1956. He