John Scholefield was born in Castleford, Yorkshire, in 1907 and received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying with the Leeds MB ChB and with the conjoint diploma in 1931. He obtained the Fellowship in 1934. He spent part of his training at the Mayo Clinic, also serving as a

Geoffrey Hyman was born in Leeds on 16 August 1908 and educated at Leeds Central High School and Leeds University, where he graduated in 1931. After house appointments at Leeds General Infirmary and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, he took the FRCS in 1937. During the second world