Bruce Pender was born in Bombay on 9 September 1921, the son of George T Pender, general manager for the British American Tobacco Company. He was educated at Mount House Preparatory School and Marlborough College before entering St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1944 he served

Marion Bartlett was a missionary surgeon in Tanzania, Africa. She was born on 2 October 1921 in Sevenoaks, Kent and was the daughter of Alfred Arthur Phillips, an Anglican priest. Her mother, Josephine Amy née Clouting, was the daughter of a general practitioner. Both her parents served as missiona