James Gordon Kendall was an orthopaedic surgeon who became medical director of Derwen College for the Disabled in Oswestry, Shropshire. He qualified in medicine from Birmingham University and passed the conjoint examination of the college the same year. An early appointment was as senior registrar t

Parry was born in Liverpool in 1915 and practised as a chartered masseur from 1933 to 1938 before studying medicine at University College Hospital, where he qualified in 1944. He subsequently held various posts at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and continued to attend weekly clinics there until his r

Richard Batten was the son of Lindsey Batten, FRCP, FRCGP, a Bart's-trained GP in Hampstead. Batten's disease, an inherited neurological condition, was named after his ancestor, also of Bart's. Richard trained at the Westminster Hospital, entered the RAMC on qualifying, and served in Italy. After de

John Tracey Scales was a distinguished professor of biomechanical engineering at the Institute of Orthopaedics, University of London, who pioneered the use of biologically inert plastic materials in orthopaedic surgery. He was born an only child, in Colchester, on 2 July 1920. His family later moved

Christopher George Attenborough was born on 25 June 1922 at Farnborough, Hampshire, the son of Wilfred G Attenborough, a medical practitioner. He was educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge, and then went to King's College Hospital where he qualified in 1944. Following war service in

Edward Lorden Trickey, or 'E L T' as he was known to his contemporaries, was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Edgware General Hospital and at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He was born in China in 1920, the eldest son of the missionaries E C W and M C Trickey. His mother died

Peter French was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St George's Hospital, London. He was born on 2 July 1921, in Temple Fortune, north London, the eldest son of the reverend Reginald French and his wife, Gertrude née Haworth. His father was the local vicar, later moving to Stepney in east London, a

Anthony Ashford Hodges was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Great Yarmouth, Gorleston-on-Sea and Lowestoft. Very general in his approach to orthopaedic conditions, he particularly enjoyed performing joint replacements. He was a unique character, and had an unusual upbringing and an eventful life.

John Golding was born in London on 15 April 1921 and his early schooling was at Hilltop Court School, Seaford, and then Marlborough. From there he went to Caius College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1944. He did his National Service in the RAMC and in 1946 was