Born on 11 October 1906 at Oswaldtwistle, the son of a textile chemist, Alec Lomax Kenyon studied medicine at the University of Manchester where he won prizes in surgery, pathology and paediatrics. He was house surgeon and casualty officer at the Royal Infirmary and subsequently resident surgical of

Born in Stockport, Cheshire, in 1905, Arthur Noel Birkett was educated at Stockport Grammar School and Manchester University where he graduated MB ChB in 1930. He held resident posts at Manchester Royal Infirmary and he demonstrated anatomy in the department of Professor J S B Stopford. He then beca