John Anthony Fleming was a consultant general surgeon at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. He was born in Surbiton, Surrey on 22 October 1928, the second son of Robert Hood Fleming, a surgeon, and Margaret Fleming née Williams. His older brother Peter became a cardiologist. Fleming attended Ar

Raymond Kirk, known throughout his entire professional life as ‘Jerry’, was a late entrant to medicine, having left school at 16 and serving for four years in the Royal Navy in the Second World War, before becoming one of the most celebrated surgical educators of his day through his outstanding teac