Joo Hua Khaw qualified MB BS Malaya in 1961, obtaining the Edinburgh and English Fellowships in 1968 and 1969 respectively. He specialised in orthopaedics and gained MCh Orth Liverpool in 1970. All his career was spent in Kuala Lumpur, practising as an orthopaedic surgeon and he died there on 12 Oct

Robert William Edmund Knowles was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on 5 May 1936, the son of Robert Barton Knowles, a medical practitioner and Kathleen, née Pearson, a dental surgeon. His early education was at Broughton Hall, Eccleshall, Staffordshire, and at Repton, before entering medical school