Graham Edward Foster studied medicine at Liverpool University and graduated MB, ChB in 1968. In 1974 he passed the fellowship of the college. He did house jobs at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary and was a lecturer and demonstrator in anatomy at the University. Moving to Nottingham he lectured in surge

John Knowles Stanley was a consultant hand surgeon at Wrightington Hospital, Manchester, where he led the upper limb unit, and a professor of hand surgery at the University of Manchester. He was born in Cardiff on 30 March 1944 the son of Frederick John Stanley and Mary Thelma Stanley née Morgan but