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

Emmanuel Archampong was a professor of surgery at the University of Ghana Medical School. He was born in Jamestown, Accra on 12 October 1933. His father was Emmanuel Quarmine Archampong, an accountant at the general post office; his mother was Mary Naryie Archampong née Abbey, a petty trader and the