Colin Teasdale was a consultant general surgeon at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. He was born in Leeds on 26 June 1945 to Alan Wainwright Teasdale and Eva Teasdale née Rowley He had an older sister, Jean, who trained as a dietitian, and a younger brother, Eric, became an occupational medicine consul

William Jones Owen was a consultant surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals and a senior lecturer at King’s College, London. He spent his early life in north Wales, where he excelled at his academic work, rugby, music and Welsh. He won first prize in a recital group at the Urdd National Eisteddfo

John Meredith Harrison was an orthopaedic surgeon in New South Wales and a distinguished international water polo player. He was born in Sydney on 21 May 1944, the second of three children of Marjorie Joy Harrison née Parker (known to her friends as Marnie) and Ernest John Jasper George Harrison, a