John Mander, a former consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at York District Hospital, was born in Sheffield on 5 August 1924. His father, Thomas Goddard Mander, was a solicitor, and his mother, Edith Alice Ruth née Bland, a Montessori teacher. Her father had been a draper. John Mander was educa

Philip Rhodes was born in Sheffield on 2 May 1922, the only son of Sydney Rhodes, an iron and steel merchant. His mother, Harriet May née Denniff, was the daughter of a butcher and farmer. He was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and Clare College, Cambridge, from which he went on to St

Gordon Lionel Bourne was a consultant in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He was born on 3 June 1921 at Sudbury in Derbyshire, the second son of Thomas Holland Bourne, a farmer, and Lily Anne Bourne née Clewlow, a former Barts nurse. His primary scho

Anthony John Woolf was born in London on 5 June 1925. He was the son of Alfred Woolf, a businessman, and his wife Daisy née Wollman. After attending Haberdashers Askes School, he studied medicine at London University and trained at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, graduating MB, BS in 1956. At St