Mathew Finbarr (Sandy) Hunt received his professional education at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Medical School and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1945, gaining his Fellowship in 1952. After junior appointments at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and at St Bartholomew's

Thomas Hubert Morgan studied medicine at Cambridge and University College Hospital. He became first assistant to the accident service at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and senior orthopaedic registrar and Nuffield research fellow to the Wingfield-Morris Hospital, Oxford. He moved to Swindon and be

Raymond Cragg Farrow was born in Peterborough on 17 May 1920. He was educated at his father's old school, Bishop's Stortford, and in 1939 he went up to Brasenose College, Oxford, to read medicine. He went to Westminster Hospital for his clinical work, gaining the Bulkeley Medal in 1944. He qualified

James Robinson, formerly senior surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, was born on 25 June 1921 in Brisbane, Australia. At an early age his parents moved to France, where his father, Ernest Longton Robinson, died in 1928. His mother, Mary Gordon Olive née Love, then married Rupert Shelton Cor

John Edward Holgate was born in Vizagapatam, India, on 21 October 1921, the son of Maurice James Holgate, who was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Medical Service. His mother was Miss Florence Polyxenie Marsden. John was sent to Epsom College and then to St Bartholomew's Hospital graduating MB BS