Arthur William Rowe Williamson was born on 30 January 1925. He qualified in medicine from London University in 1948 and passed the fellowship of the college in 1953. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the Tunbridge Wells Health District. He died on 26 August 2020, aged 95.

Phyllis George was a consultant general surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London and the first woman to be elected as vice president of the Royal College of Surgeons. She was born in Sedgley, Staffordshire on 18 February 1925, but, though she later travelled widely, she remained at heart a Londone