Leslie Morris was born on 23 June 1900, the son of the headmaster of the school in Ashton-under-Lyne where he was educated. For the medical course he went to Manchester University where he graduated MB ChB in 1923, taking the Conjoint Diploma in 1924. In 1925 he obtained the FRCS and then held a ser

Arthur Joseph Wrigley (Joe) was born at Clitheroe, Lancashire, on 5 May 1902, the son of Canon Joseph Wrigley and after attending the Royal Grammar School, Clitheroe, and later Rossall School, he entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1924. He gained a distinction in pathology in

Benjamin William Rycroft was born in a small village in Yorkshire in 1902. In his youth he learned to play the organ well enough to do so in his parish church and thus was mildly attracted to the ministry as a profession. Instead, he studied medicine in St Andrew's University (1919-1924) and after q