George Pinker, Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Queen from 1973 to 1990, was born in Calcutta on 6 December 1924, the son of Ronald Douglas Pinker and Queenie Elizabeth née Dix. Like so many English children in those days, he went to England at the age of four, and was educated at Reading School. He wen

Leonard Easton was an obstetrician and gynaecologist at the London Hospital. His background was unusual. His parents, Leonard Tytherleigh Easton, an elderly insurance broker, and Maria Bertrand Easton née de Lis met in Japan and he was born in Tientsin, China, on 11 July 1921. His education at Harro

John Crossley was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. He was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the son of Walter Crossley, a manufacturer of bedding ware, and Annie Crossley née Burniston, a housewife. He was educated at Blackburn Grammar School and then Repton.

Murray was educated at Anderson College, Glasgow, and qualified with the licences of the Edinburgh Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1945. He subsequently gained the College's Fellowship in 1951 and became a Member and Fellow of the Royal

'Tony' Buckle was born in Yorkshire and educated at Holgates Grammar School, York. In 1944 he enlisted in the RAF but the war ended before he completed his training as a pilot. He was released and began his medical career at Guy's Hospital, graduating in 1950. He received the Golding Prize Medal and

Peter Sherratt Watson was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in the Hertfordshire area. He was born in Leicester on 6 May 1925. His father, John Robert Watson, was an accountant and his mother, Nellie Evelyn née Sherratt, a secretary. At Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester, he was captain o