Remo Derek Peduzzi was a consultant surgeon at Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle. He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1950. He gained his FRCS in 1961. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior registrar in general surgery at Middlesex Hospital, London.

John Norman McMichael Schofield was born on 11 April 1926 in Teddington, Middlesex. He was the eldest son of James William Schofield, a consultant dental surgeon at the Middlesex and University College Hospitals in London and his wife Lena née McMichael, who was the daughter of an Edinburgh JP. Afte

John Bridger was a consultant general surgeon in Stafford. Born on 2 September 1926, John grew up in Enfield, north London, where his father, George Bridger, was the superintendent of parks. His mother was Violet Millicent Bridger née Lee. He gained a scholarship to Enfield Grammar School and later,