Ian William Forster was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham. Born on 13 November 1945 in Belper, Derbyshire, he studied medicine at London University and trained at University College Hospital qualifying MB BS in 1968. At various times he was a clinical research assist

John Holford Cook began his career as an ophthalmologist, but later re-trained as an anaesthetist. Born on 16 May 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, he did not meet his father until he was three years old. He studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, London, and, following qualificati

Richard Dale was a surgeon in the Royal Navy. He was born in Worcester on 18 March 1945, the son of Reginald William Dale, a county planning officer, and Margaret Dale née Norman. He grew up in Somerset, where he was to return in retirement, along with his wife Hilary. He attended Taunton School and