Amarish Jagmohan Parikh was a surgeon who lived and worked in Ahmedabad, India. He was born in Umreth in Gujarat State, India on 2 March 1934, the seventh child and fourth son of Jagmohan Lalbhai Parikh, a civil judge, and Saraswati Parikh née Chokshi. He attended the Government High School, Nadiad,

Reginald Crosbie was a general surgeon on the Wirral, Merseyside. He studied chemistry at London University, graduating with first class honours in 1949. For his medical training he moved to Liverpool and passed his MB, BCh in 1955. After house jobs at the Walton Hospital and the Alder Hey Children

Kenneth Carroll was born in Australia and studied medicine at Queensland University, qualifying MB, BS in 1956. After house jobs at Gympie General Hospital, he came to the UK and worked at the Gravesend and North Kent Hospital in Gravesend. He became a senior surgical registrar at St Bartholomew’s H

David Ernest Leask was a consultant in general surgery in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 30 March 1938. His father, Lawrence, was a businessman; his mother, Beryl Leask née Walton, was a housewife. He gained his fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons