Anthony John Woolf was born in London on 5 June 1925. He was the son of Alfred Woolf, a businessman, and his wife Daisy née Wollman. After attending Haberdashers Askes School, he studied medicine at London University and trained at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, graduating MB, BS in 1956. At St

The only son of Henry Kenneth Victor Soltau MD, David Soltau was born in Barnstaple, North Devon, on 13 May 1920. His mother was Nora Ramscar née Wright, the daughter of a chartered accountant. He was educated at Epsom College and Queen's College, Cambridge, before going on to Bristol to do his clin