John James, always known as Jimmy, was a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon who spent much of his career in Africa. He was born on 25 September 1940 in Lusaka, the fourth child of missionary parents. His father, Henrik Gerard James, was Dutch and a French Protestant pastor, trained at the

Michael Arthur Senior was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Canniesburn unit, Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He began his career as a dentist; he qualified BDS in Leeds in 1984, spent four years in Bradford as a dentist, and worked in the oral surgery department at Bradford Hospital. He then decided to