Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, on 15 February 1915, the son of David Feather, a printer and bookbinder, David Feather was educated at the Keighley Trade and Grammar School until 1927, when he went to the Royal Masonic School at Bushey, Hertfordshire. He received his medical training at Leeds and did j

Mortimer Shaw was a consultant plastic surgeon at St James's Hospital, Leeds. He was born on 22 February 1915 in Cleckheaton. His father, William Shaw, was a medical practitioner. His mother was Lizzie née Haigh. From Oundle, Mortimer went on to study medicine at Leeds, where he graduated with first