Peter Shires was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal County Hospital, Guildford, Surrey. He was born in Huddersfield, the son of Frank Shires, a wool merchant, and Marion née Eastwood. He was the nephew of Bertram Shires, a radiologist at St Thomas' and Great Ormond Street hospitals. He wa

William Anthony Crabbe, the only son of John Gregory Crabbe, a company secretary, and of Elizabeth, (née Hogg), was born at Birtley, Co Durham, on 22 December 1927. After education at Corby Hall, Sunderland, and Douai School, Berkshire, he entered the University of Durham Medical School and graduate

Keith Norcross was born in Oldham, Lancashire, on 29 May 1929, the second son of Frank Norcross, a chartered secretary, and Elizabeth Parker. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School before being awarded the Somerset Iver and a state scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford. While at Oxford he g

John Watson-Farrar, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, one of the better-known pioneering provincial centres, was born of English parents in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 1926. 'J W F', as he was affectionately known, spent his formative years in Jersey during the German

Rupert Kushlick was born in 1932 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the son of Phillip Kushlick, a paediatrician, and Taubie, an actress. He matriculated at the Marist Brothers College, Johannesburg, and graduated in medicine from the University of Witwatersrand in 1954. After junior posts, he special

Puspanathan Sadasivan Vaithilingam was born in Durban, on 19 September 1927, the eldest son in a family of eight brothers and one sister. His father, Sadasivan Vaithilingam, was a successful farmer, and his mother was Pappathee, née Reddy. After schooling at Sastri College he emigrated to Scotland i