James Brown was born in 1913 and educated at Bishops Stortford. In 1930 he entered Guy's Hospital and for two years studied dentistry before changing to medicine. After qualification in 1936 he held various house appointments at Guy's before obtaining the Fellowship in 1938. Brown was then appointed

Charles Donald qualified in Melbourne in 1934 and served as RMO at Prince Henry's Hospital. In 1936 he came to London and was appointed house surgeon at the West London Hospital under Henry Tyrrell-Grey. He passed the Fellowship in 1938 while at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital before returning as s

Like his brother MG and his cousin AK, Rangnath Gajanar was a member of the Talwalkar family of medical practitioners who obtained the Fellowship of the College in the 1930s. On returning to Bombay RG worked at the GT Hospital. All qualified from Grant Medical College, as did many other members of t