Christopher John Spivey was an orthopaedic surgeon at Southend Hospital from 1970 to 2000. Born on 3 March 1937, he studied medicine at London University and trained at the London Hospital graduating MB BS in 1960. That same year he passed the conjoint examination and proceeded to gain the fellowshi

John Hale was a consultant general and colorectal surgeon at Redhill in Surrey. He was born into a family of market gardeners in the Vale of Evesham, Worcestershire. He showed early academic promise and attended Prince Henry's Grammar School in Evesham, where he was head boy. He then gained a schola

Paul Cassell was a consultant general surgeon at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough. He was appointed in 1972 and retired in 1998; his time there can be seen in retrospect as coinciding with the heyday of the district general hospital and certainly of Wexham Park Hospital. Paul was born in south London