Born on 8 March 1894, the daughter of John and Agnes Collier, Josephine Collier was educated at the Convent of Notre Dame, Southport, the University of Oxford, and University College Hospital, where she qualified in 1922. She was house surgeon at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, and later successi

Francis John Hector was born in Bristol on October 15 1894. He was educated at Bristol, King's College, the Middlesex Hospital and Guy's Hospital and qualified MRCS LRCP in 1922 and was appointed consulting gynaecologist to the Bristol United Hospital. A man of many great abilities and diverse inter