Sri Singha was professor of surgery in Kandy, Sri Lanka. He was born on 14 February 1927, in Moratuwa, in what was then Ceylon, the son of A C Fernando, a doctor from Colombo, whose name he bore when he arrived in the UK. He was educated at St Thomas's College and the Royal College, Colombo, where h

John Bradbeer was a consultant general surgeon at Mayday Hospital, Croydon. He was born in Redlands, Bristol on 9 August 1927. His mother, Edith Bradbeer née Chaplin, was originally from Salisbury. His father, Ernest Gustave Bradbeer, was head of the department of anaesthetics at the University of B