Richard Braithwaite Keevil Rickford, the first of similar twins of Leslie Thomas Rickford, a banker, and Gladys Georgina Rickford (née Keevil), was born on 1 June 1914, at Hampstead. He was educated at The Gables, Bexhill-on-Sea, and then at the junior and senior schools of Weymouth College, Dors

Stanley Clayton was born on 13 September 1911, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Kingswood School in Bath and qualified from King's College Hospital. He served with distinction as a Major in the RAMC and then resumed his career in obstetrics and gynaecology at King's where he developed a re

Lloyd received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital. After obtaining his FRCS he moved into obstetrics and gynaecology and indeed became an eminent Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was gynaecological and obstetrical surgeon to the United Cambridge Hospit