John Pullan was a senior surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital in London. He was born in Yorkshire on 1 August 1915 and educated at Shrewsbury, where he boxed and rowed. He was a scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and entered St Thomas's Hospital in 1937, qualifying in 1940. He held junior posts and se

Born in Liverpool on 26 December 1915, to Henry Ramsay Monro and Marjorie (née Wace) Robert Monro claimed direct descent from the Monros of Foulis and London. No less than five generations of his family held the DM Oxon and FRCP London and served as physicians on the staff of the Bethlem Hospital, b