George Partridge was educated at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's where he qualified in 1931. After junior posts he specialised in orthopaedics and practised in Chester where he was consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Chester Royal Infirmary. He was an intensely private man. He died on 23 February 1

Patrick Brendan Moroney received his medical education from Liverpool University and from St Bartholomew's and Guy's Hospitals, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1931 and graduating MB ChB at Liverpool in the same year. He gained his Fellowship in 1935 and two years later obtained the MChir Or

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

Dick Murray was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Inverness. He was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 20 March 1907. His father, who was a general practitioner, was away serving in the RAMC during the first world war for much of Dick’s early childhood. He was educated at Sherborne and Caius Colleg

Heber Langston was born in Croydon, Surrey, on 1 July 1907, the eldest son of Earle Legh Langston, a Clerk in Holy Orders, and Alice, née Carr. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1931 with distinction in surgery. After junior appoin

John Stanley Batchelor was a member of a distinguished medical family in New Zealand. His grandfather, Ferdinand Campion Batchelor MRCS 1871, trained at Guy's and emigrated to Dunedin in 1874 where he established an obstetrics and gynaecology practice, becoming the University of Otago's first Profes

Herbert Edward Harding was born in 1907. There is no record of his early education before he entered the London Hospital Medical College where he won a number of undergraduate prizes and qualified in 1931. After resident appointments at the London Hospital he completed the FRCS in 1933 to become sur

Ronald Furlong was a leading orthopaedic surgeon. He was born in Woolwich on 3 March 1909, the son of Ronald John Furlong, a businessman. Ronald was educated at Eltham College and St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1931. In the following year he won the Cheselden medal in anatomy and surger

Evan William Mcurig Williams, the son of William John Williams, a coalminer, and of Alice Williams (née Davies), was born at Mountain Ash on 14 December 1907. He was educated at the primary and grammar schools in Mountain Ash and at the Welsh National School of Medicine where he was Alfred Sheen Pri

David Trevor, the third child and second son of John Trevor, a dairyman and sub- postmaster, and of Sarah (née Jones) the daughter of a sheep farmer, was born in Fulham, London on 24 July 1906. Having started school in North London he was sent to Wales to be brought up by his grandmother n a sheep f