David Edwards was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Stoke-on-Trent. He was born in Sutton on 27 July 1936, the son of Reginald William Edwards, a managing director, and Irene Bertha Grace née Coad. He was educated at King’s College School, Wimbledon, from which he won the Williams exhibition in na

Grimsdell was born in Watford, England, in 1926 and did his medical training at Westminster Hospital. After a stint as medical officer in the RAMC in West Africa from 1952 to 1954, he trained in orthopaedics in London, at hospitals that included the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He

James Robert Holdrich Fisher was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Wallsall Hospitals. He was born on 15 November 1932, in the City of London Maternity Home, the son of Hubert Holdrich Fisher RN, a surgeon in the Royal Navy (FRCS Edinburgh) who latterly specialised in ENT, and Barbara Christob

Martin Foss was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He was born in Bristol on 12 February 1938, the son of George Lush Foss, a general practitioner, and Eileen Isabelle née Buller. His paternal grandfather, Edwin Vincent Foss, was also a general practitioner.