Ian Macfarlane, the son of James Macfarlane and Islena, née Cromarty, was born on 8 September 1925 in Uckfield, Sussex. He was educated at Seafield Park, Fareham, Hampshire, and received his medical training at the Middlesex Hospital. After qualifying in 1948 he held an appointment as casualty offic

Arthur Hume was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Colchester from 1962 until he retired in 1989. He was born in Hornsey, north London, the son of two teachers. His father became director of education for the Borough of Finchley. His father's family were Londoners, from Tottenham, while his mother

Evan Price was an orthopaedic surgeon in Barnsley, where he worked for nearly 40 years from his appointment as a consultant in 1959. He was born on 22 March 1921 in the village of Llanon in Cardiganshire. His father, Evan James Price, was a farmer who had been a medical student for two years before

Parry was born in Liverpool in 1915 and practised as a chartered masseur from 1933 to 1938 before studying medicine at University College Hospital, where he qualified in 1944. He subsequently held various posts at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and continued to attend weekly clinics there until his r