James Bernard Bourke (Jim) was born on 8 November 1940 and studied medicine at Cambridge University and the London Hospital, graduating MB,BChir in 1965. He passed the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1967 and that of the college in 1969. After working as a lecturer in sur

John Dormandy was born on 3 May 1937 in Budapest. He was the son of Paul Szeben, a pea grower who was accustomed to exporting his crop to the UK, and his wife Clara, who was an author and dramatist. He had a sister, Daisy, and his elder brother, Thomas, was to become a consultant chemical pathologis