David Herbert was a plastic surgeon in Preston, Nottingham and Huntingdon. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1961. He gained his FRCS in 1966. He was awarded the Arris and Gale lecture in 1978; his topic was 'The anatomical basis of facial reconstruction'. He

Hugoe Matthews was an eminent thoracic surgeon who was an expert on the diseases of the oesophagus; he was also an authority on the Victorian nature writer and mystic Richard Jefferies. He was educated at Sutton County Grammar School where, even as a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a surgeon. He q

David Lightowler was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Billericay and Basildon, Essex. He was born in Horsforth, Leeds, on 30 January 1936, the son of Charles Lightowler, a company director, and Isabel Mary Lightowler née Buttle, and obtained a scholarship to Giggleswick School, where he excelled