Parry was born in Liverpool in 1915 and practised as a chartered masseur from 1933 to 1938 before studying medicine at University College Hospital, where he qualified in 1944. He subsequently held various posts at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and continued to attend weekly clinics there until his r

Arthur Hume was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Colchester from 1962 until he retired in 1989. He was born in Hornsey, north London, the son of two teachers. His father became director of education for the Borough of Finchley. His father's family were Londoners, from Tottenham, while his mother