Brian Hanbury Day was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, and at Nelson Hospital, London, and Wilson Hospital, Mitcham. He studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1952. He gained his FRCS in 1959. Prior to his consultant appoin

Peter Kudelka was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He was born in Vienna on 31 May 1932, the eldest son of Oscar Kudelka, a medical practitioner, and Caroline Therese Kudelka née Grassl. He attended Scotch College, Melbourne, and went on to study medicine at Melbourne Universi

Arthur Carlisle Townsend was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells. He was born in Amesbury, Wiltshire. His father, Eric Townsend, was a brigadier in the Royal Army Medical Corps; his mother was Dorothy Townsend née Carlisle. His grandfather, Meredith Townsend, was

Ian Sharp was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby and Coventry and Warwick Hospital. He was born on 14 May 1924 in Perth, the only son of Arthur James Sharp, a builder, and Alison Blyth Sharp née Donald, a teacher. He studied at Perth Academy and went on to study medi

Louis Solomon was professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Bristol. He was born on 31 May 1928 in Keimoes in what is now the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. His parents were of Jewish Russian descent - his mother, Anne, was from Glasgow, his father, Solly, was from Ireland. He a

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

Norman Edward Shaw was born on 4 April 1927 at Stapleford, Derbyshire. Graduating through the University of Sheffield and holding training posts in the Royal Infirmary he entered national service, being regimental medical officer to the Coldstream Guards serving in Germany. From 1955 he proceeded wi

Colin Hooker's two passions in life were his profession and his family. With his motto for the way he lived, a quotation from Thomas Huxley, "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something", he participated fully in all life offered. Colin Hooker was born in Pukeroro just

Mini Hoshang Mehta, known as ‘Min’, was a giant in her specialist orthopaedic field of early onset scoliosis. She was born in Persia on 1 November 1926 into a Parsi family, and moved to India in early life. She was aged about 10 or 11 when a spinal deformity developed: her parents thought she was sl

Few if any have had as great an impact on Australian orthopaedic surgery as had Tom Taylor. 'TKFT' was born in Sydney in 1932, the son of Dr Charles and Mrs Dot Taylor of Bondi. In 1941, when invasion by the Japanese appeared possible, Tom's education (on a scholarship at Sydney Grammar School) was

Michael Freeman, an orthopaedic surgeon at the London Hospital, is best remembered for his contributions to lower limb arthroplasty. He was the only son of Donald George (D G) Freeman and his second wife, Florence Julia Freeman née Elms. Michael's great grandfather, J R Freeman, had established a to