John Beverley King studied medicine at the London Hospital Medical College and graduated MB, BS in 1967. During his orthopaedic training at the London, he was also attached to the knee unit at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital for a time. Later he obtained a fellowship to study in France with

James Meredith Buchanan was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Sunderland Royal Hospital. Born on 4 March 1943, he studied medicine at London University qualifying MB BS in 1967 and passing the conjoint examination the same year. At St George’s Hospital in Tooting he did house jobs and became a sen

Tony Osborne was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the Royal Navy. He was born in York to Laura (née Chatterton) and William Osborne. Laura was a woman ahead of her time: she dabbled in the Stock Market before it was easy or fashionable to do so. She also did photographic modelling and was a charm

Gwyn Amman Evans was a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Oswestry. He was born in Denbigh, in the Vale of Clwyd, on 24 March 1944, the son of Owen John Evans, a presbyterian minister, and Annie Gwyneth Evans née Edwards, the daughter of a farmer. At the age of three the family moved to Bon-y-maen in