James Francis ‘Jim’ Carter was a general surgeon in Auckland, New Zealand. He was born on 17 March 1933 in Rawene Northland, New Zealand, one of six children of hardworking share milkers and agricultural labourers who frequently had to move to seek work in those days of depression. He was educated a

Sir Peter Morris was the Nuffield professor of surgery, chairman of the department of surgery and director of the Oxford transplant centre at the University of Oxford and president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2001 to 2004. He was born in Horsham in the state of Victoria, Austral

Alan McKenzie was born on 11 April 1929 in the Manse of the Presbyterian Church at Port Chalmers, Dunedin to Jessie (Harrington) and James McKenzie. He was the youngest of three children with a brother, Malcolm and sister, Marion. When Alan was three years old his parents accepted a call to the Epso