Peter Berger was a consultant surgeon at the Good Hope Hospital, West Bromwich, Sutton Coldfield, Lichfield and Tamworth Group of Hospitals and at the North Birmingham Hospital Group. He was born in Königsberg, East Prussia as the only child of Max Mark Berger, a dental surgeon, and Gertrude Berger

Sir Herbert Livingston Duthie (known as Bert to colleagues and family) was provost of the University of Wales College of Medicine. He was born into a modest but happy home in Glasgow, the eldest of three children, and soon made an impression academically, winning prizes throughout his school years.