Born 16 December 1913, the son of Isaac Shedletysky, embroiderer, and Annetta Shinsky, his wife. As a schoolboy at the Regent Street Polytechnic he used the name Henry Stanley, but on his mother's remarriage when he was fifteen he assumed his step-father's surname of Joseph by deed poll. He took his

Born 23 July 1910, the second daughter of Captain Frank R Willis, RN, of The Knapp, Portesham, Dorset. She was educated at Blackheath High School, at Girton College, Cambridge, where she took first class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, in 1932, and at the London School of Medicine fo