John Latreille Wilkins studied medicine at Cambridge University and trained at the London Hospital. After house jobs and passing the fellowship of the college in 1965, he became a consultant general surgeon at Nottingham City Hospital. He was a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology and a

James Anthony Walden Fitzgerald was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Southampton and at the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, Alton. He studied at Cambridge University and at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1961. He gained his FRCS in 1965. Prior to his consultant appointment, he