George Peirce received his medical education at St Mary's, St Bartholomew's and the London Hospitals, qualifying with the conjoint diploma and the London MB BS in 1926 and gained his Fellowship in 1934. After junior posts at St Mary's Hospital and the London Lock Hospital he spent the remainder of h

Beatrice Smith was a surgeon at the South London and Marie Curie hospitals. She was born on 21 April 1903 in Stowmarket, Suffolk, the only child of Walter James Smith, a corn merchant, and Beatrice Amy née Gostling. She was educated at the Mount School, York, and University College Hospital, where s