Sydney Graham Aitken became FRCS in 1946. Little is known about his life except that he was working at St Margaret's Hospital, Auckland, in 1975 when he disappeared from records, presumed to have died.

Tom Lewis was a respected London obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was born in Hampstead on 27 May 1918, but regarded himself as a South African of Welsh origin. His great-grandfather, Charles Lewis, had run away to sea from Milford Haven and settled in Cape Town in about 1850, where he established