Henry Byrne was an orthopaedic surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Ballarat, Victoria, on 15 August 1932, the eldest of five children of Henry Byrne, a grazier, and his wife Martha. He was educated at Ballarat State School and Ballarat College, before studying medicine at the University

Benudhar Goswami was born in Calcutta on 11 December 1927 and studied medicine at the R G Kar Medical College there, qualifying in 1953. He came to England in the following year and worked at hospitals in Wakefield and Stockport, passing the FRCS in 1961. He was then surgical registrar at Hertford C

Adrian Henry was born in Dublin on 22 June 1930, the son of Robert Francis Jack Henry, Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and his wife Stella Christine, née Ross. Adrian spent a year at the Dublin College of Art before studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. His s

'Raj' Dutta was born in Chittagong. His father was a general practitioner in Rangoon before the war and joined the British army after the Japanese invasion. Raj qualified in Rangoon in 1953 and worked there before coming to England in 1958. He took a number of junior posts, training in Edinburgh,

John Francis Stone was born on 4 October 1926 in Edinburgh. His father, Thomas Willam Stone, was the headmaster of the only school on Barra and his mother, Evelyn Agnes, née McFarlane, was the daughter of a journalist. He was educated first at the Castlebay School on the Isle of Barra before attendi

Robert Francis Norman Duke was born in London in 1925, the son of Sir Robert Duke, and was educated at Marlborough College. In 1943, he joined the Royal Artillery, serving in India until 1947. He was commissioned in 1944, rising to the rank of Captain. After the war he read medicine at Corpus Christ

John Moore was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in the Chelmsford Hospital Group and to the Regional Orthopaedic Centre, Black Notley, from 1967 to 1994 and, on retirement, an honorary consultant to the Mid-Essex NHS Trust. Born on 10 October 1929, he went to preparatory school in Lytham