Born at Leicester, 1 July 1909, fourth son and seventh of the eight children of Richard Marcus Jordan, leather merchant, afterwards of Weston-super-Mare, and E Jane King, his wife. He was educated at Weston-super-Mare and at the Bristol Medical School, graduating MB BCh at Bristol University in 1931

Educated in Ceylon, he came to England for postgraduate work at St Bartholomew's and the Middlesex Hospitals. Returning to Ceylon he was appointed visiting surgeon to the General Hospital, Colombo, and lecturer in surgery at the Ceylon Medical College. He practised at 100 Barnes Place, Colombo, and

Alan Ruscoe Clarke was educated at Haileybury College and Guy's Hospital, where he won the Michael Harris anatomy prize, the Wooldridge physiology prize and the general proficiency prize in 1928, and graduated MB BS in 1931. He held resident appointments at Guy's Hospital and clinical assistantships

Born 15 March 1906 at Rangoon, Burma, the eldest child of Mr Vedamanickam, accountant in the Burma railways. He was educated at St Antony's Boys High School and the University, Rangoon. After postgraduate study in England, he was appointed resident surgeon, lecturer in anatomy, and tutor in clinical