Albert Lawson Light was a consultant general surgeon in Wakefield and at Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, and also a consultant surgeon to the Ministry of Social Security. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Medical School, gaining a distinction in his final MB BS examinations. Prior to his con

Mark Coleman received his medical education at University College Hospital Medical School, passing the Conjoint Diploma in 1927 and graduated MB BS in 1928. He obtained the Fellowship in 1931 and in the same year gained the Mastership of Surgery, and was awarded the Bilton Pollard Fellowship in 1938

Ascroft was born on 4 September 1906, the only son of James Arthur Ascroft of Bootle, Lancashire and Hannah Byers of Culton, Cumberland. He was educated at Worksop, the Middlesex Hospital, and the University of Strasbourg, qualifying in 1930; the next year he gained the gold medal at his Master of S