Stanley Albert Seligman was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He was born in West Ham, Newham, London on 29 July 1927, the son of Isaac Seligman and Sarah Seligman née Goldberg. He was educated at Ilford County High School and went on to study medicine at U

Bertram Owen-Smith, or 'Owen' as he was known, was a plastic surgeon in the UK and later in Salisbury, Rhodesia. A member of the 'Guinea Pig Club', the group of injured Second World War airmen treated by the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe, he made the unusual transition from patien

John Alexander-Williams was one of the country's best known gastroenterological surgeons noted not only for his surgical skill, teaching and many research contributions, but also for his *bonhomie* and *joie de vivre*, making him the life and soul of any meeting. John, often affectionately known

John Pendower was a consultant surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital, London and Mayday Hospital, Croydon. He was born on 6 August 1927, less than ten years after the end of the First World War; his father had been a teenage infantryman on the Somme. He grew up through turbulent and exciting times, and