Gerald Courtenay Davies was born on 10 June 1947 in Newport, Monmouthshire. His father was Gordon Davies, a senior officer in the Wales Gas Board. His mother was Edna Maud née Hunter. He was educated at the High School for Boys in Cardiff and studied medicine at the Westminster Hospital. There he wo

Colin Neil Davison, the only son of a company secretary, was born on 27 April 1948. He was educated at Woodhouse Grammar School, North Finchley, and Charing Cross Hospital. He had an excellent student record and secured the Huxley Prize in physiology; the second clinical prize and later the Gordon H