Linton Snaith was born in 1909 at Eaglescliffe, Teeside. He qualified MB BS with honours at Durham in 1932 and gained that University's MS in 1936 and MD in 1940. Soon after gaining his Fellowship he decided to specialise in gynaecology. After a post in obstetrics at the North Middlesex Hospital he

John Arthur Stallworthy was born on 26 July 1906 in New Zealand, the son of Arthur John Stallworthy, a newspaper proprietor who later became Minister of Health. His early education was at Auckland Grammar School and he entered Otago University where he took degrees in both law and medicine, qualifyi