James Meredith Buchanan was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Sunderland Royal Hospital. Born on 4 March 1943, he studied medicine at London University qualifying MB BS in 1967 and passing the conjoint examination the same year. At St George’s Hospital in Tooting he did house jobs and became a sen

Robert George was born on 12 August 1944 in Hemel Hempstead. After attending St Dunstan’s College, London, he studied medicine at King’s College and St George’s Hospital. He graduated MB,BS in 1967 and did house jobs at St Georges, the Hammersmith and the Royal Marsdon Hospitals in London. In 1968

Gwyn Amman Evans was a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Oswestry. He was born in Denbigh, in the Vale of Clwyd, on 24 March 1944, the son of Owen John Evans, a presbyterian minister, and Annie Gwyneth Evans née Edwards, the daughter of a farmer. At the age of three the family moved to Bon-y-maen in