Educated at the Middlesex Hospital, he practised in London, with consulting rooms at 54 Harley Street. He died on 20 July 1958.

Having received his early education in Glasgow, Ivan Joffe spent the majority of his professional life at Plumstead, where he was on the staff of St Nicholas Hospital. He had an aptitude for administration and became chairman of the hospital medical committee. After retirement, he moved with his new

John Jenkins was born on 19 October 1915. He trained at Guy's where he became house surgeon in ENT and then moved to Cardiff where he took up the post of senior registrar in ENT to the Cardiff Royal Infirmary. He became consultant ENT surgeon to the Leicester Royal Infirmary and was a Fellow of the

Leonard Kingdom was educated at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After junior jobs he entered the RAMC where he was a graded surgeon. After the war he returned to Cambridge to demonstrate anatomy, and then went back to Bart's to specialise in ENT. He became chief assistant in the ENT departm

Tony Malkin was born on 4 February 1916 in Cardiff. His father, Edwin Malkin, was a musician and organ-builder. His mother, Winifred Mary Lyddon, was the daughter of a Bristol stockbroker. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, and King's College Medical School and Hospital. After juni

Ken Wilkinson qualified from St Mary's Hospital in 1942. After house jobs he served in the RNVR as surgeon lieutenant, returning to complete his training at the Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Taplow. He was a true general surgeon, and although his main interest was in urology, he resisted the separati

The son of William Harvey, a barrister, and his wife Evelyn, née De la Cour, Harvey was born on Christmas Day 1910 in Kirkwall. He was educated at Cargilfield, Edinburgh and Rugby, before winning a county scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital. After qualifying he did junior jobs in Winchester before j

Moham Eldin was born on 15 September 1908 in Egypt, where his father, Hassan Ein Mohammed, was a palace official. He graduated from Cairo Medical School in 1932, and came to London in 1936 to study for the fellowship. During the war he worked at St Mary's Hospital in London, and the Royal National O

Kenneth Wright was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Fylde. He was born on 8 May 1918 in Haslingden, Lancashire, the son of Thomas Smethurst Wright, a pharmacist, and Ellen Bleazard, a schoolteacher. He was educated at Haslingden Grammar School, proceeding to Manchester University, where he gradua

Malcolm May was born in Gravesend, Kent, on 16 October 1919, the son of John George May, a Trinity House pilot, and Aileen (née Reynolds). He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and Guy's Hospital, qualifying by the Conjoint examination in 1942. He joined the Royal Navy as Surgeon-Lieutenant, s

John Gwyn Howell (Toby) James was born in Pontypridd on 5 May 1919 to Thomas Edwin James, a bank manager, and his wife Margaret, née Williams, a farmer's daughter. After early education in South Wales he studied medicine in Cardiff, and graduated MRCS, LRCP at the Welsh National School of Medicine i

William Hamer, son of William, a chartered accountant, and his wife, Alice Marjorie, née Evans, was born in London on 22 July 1919. From Boston Grammar School and Oakham School, Rutland, he went to St Mary's Hospital, London. He held house appointments at the Postgraduate Medical School and was infl