Patrick Brendan Moroney received his medical education from Liverpool University and from St Bartholomew's and Guy's Hospitals, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1931 and graduating MB ChB at Liverpool in the same year. He gained his Fellowship in 1935 and two years later obtained the MChir Or

Bob Wolfe was born in London on 10 October 1907. He came from Eastbourne College to St Thomas's where he qualified in 1932 and where, inspired by his teachers Cyril Nitch and Phillip Mitchiner, he decided on a career of surgery, rather against his father's hopes that they would join in general pract