Arthur Pereira came to St George's as a student where he won the Allingham scholarship and qualified in 1929. He did not leave St George's until he retired. He qualified in 1929, and after junior posts at St George's and the Metropolitan and Neasden Hospitals, specialised in ear nose and throat surg

Ivor Glyn Williams, the third son of Josiah Williams, a wholesale grocer, and of Ellen Williams (née Rowlands), was born at Pwllheli, North Wales, on 29 August 1907. He was educated at Pwllheli Grammar School and the University of London, before graduating in 1931 at the Middlesex Hospital where he