Anthony Higham was a surgeon from Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire. He studied medicine at Manchester University graduating MB ChB in 1962. Five years later, in 1967, he passed the fellowship of the college and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He died in 2013.

Ralph Neville Sapsford qualified in medicine in Cape Town in 1962 and eventually travelled to the UK, where he passed the fellowship of the college and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1967. After working as a senior registrar in cardiothoracic surgery at the Hammersmith Hospital, he

David Cairns was a consultant general surgeon in the High Wycombe Health District. He studied medicine at Cambridge University and graduated in 1962. After house jobs in vascular surgery and urology in London at the Middlesex Hospital and St Mark’s, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1967. H

George Hurst Foster was a urological surgeon at Ballochmyle Hospital, Mauchline, Ayrshire. Born on 12 July 1934 in Shipley, Yorkshire, he was the son of Charles Foster, a GP, and his wife Dorothy née Cass-Smith. After attending Bradford Grammar School he enrolled at Magdalen College, Oxford to study

Michael Hubbard was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Glan Clwyd Hospital and the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. He was born on 27 June 1938 in Woburn, Bedfordshire, into a not entirely happy marriage. His father, Geoffrey Owen Hubbard, was a company director; his moth