John Walkden was a senior orthopaedic registrar at the United Liverpool Hospitals and orthopaedic and surgical registrar to the professorial unit of Broadgreen Hospital Liverpool. He then became a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at West Cheshire and Central Wirral Hospitals. He was a member of the Li

Noel Vivian Morgan was born in Griffiths Town, Monmouthshire, on 4 December 1924, the son of Albert Morgan, an accountant with the Great Western Railway. His early education was at West Monmouth Grammar School and he subsequently entered St Catherine's College, Oxford, for his pre-clinical work. His