James Armstrong came from a staunchly medical Belfast family but spent very little of his life in his native province. His father John was a surgeon and sometime Member of Council of the RCS Ireland; his mother Maria, née Rowan, was a doctor, as were three of his brothers and his sister. James wa

Horace Luther Davies was born on 21st April 1910, at Birkenhead. He went to Woodchurch Road Junior School and Birkenhead Institute. He received his medical training at the University of Liverpool, qualifying in 1932 and then proceeding to the Master of Orthopaedic Surgery degree in 1935, and Master

Born Margaret Mary Ferguson in 1907 at Darwen, Lancashire, she was educated at Owen's College Manchester. After qualification she held house appointments and was also lecturer in anatomy and then resident surgical officer at the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute. In 1937 she married Jam

James Forrest Shepherd was born on 3 December 1899 and educated at Aberdeen University where he graduated MB ChB, in 1922. He then spent a short time in general practice and a year as house surgeon at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Monmouthshire. In 1924 he joined the Indian Medical Service and