John Blake was a consultant surgeon at Mayday and Shirley Oaks hospitals, Croydon, and St Anthony's Hospital in Cheam. He was born on 7 February 1932. He was educated at Cambridge University and Westminster Hospital Medical School. He was a house surgeon at St James' Hospital, Balham, and then be

John Stuart Bailey (or 'JCB') was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon in Leicester. He was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, and spent his early years in Cairo, before being evacuated in 1940 to Durban and on to England. He was educated at Sherborne School, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and St

Derek Richards was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Eastbourne District General Hospital, East Sussex. He was born on 12 November 1934 in Middlesbrough to William Richards and Grace Winifred Richards née Funnell. A younger sister, Barbara, was born four years later. As a child during the Second W