Bob Owen was a professor of orthopaedic surgery at Liverpool University and a consultant at the Royal Liverpool Hospital and the Royal Liverpool Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. He was born in Chwilog on the Lleyn peninsula, north Wales, the son of Griffith Owen, a farmer and butcher, and Laura Mary O

John Bastable was a consultant urologist at York. Born in 1923, he spent his childhood in Cornwall and studied medicine at Birmingham. He qualified in 1945. After National Service, he was a registrar to Alan Perry at Poplar Hospital and then at the London Hospital, where he became senior lecturer on