Leonard Penrynne Bandera Kiriclla received his professional education at the University of Ceylon, qualifying MB BS in 1947. After coming to Britain he gained the DLO in 1053 and both the English and the Edinburgh Fellowships in 1957. He held posts at St James's Hospital, Balham and at St Mary Ab

Irvine Roger Stillman was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on 29 September 1915 and after early education went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, graduating with a BA degree and later proceeding to MA. His clinical studies were undertaken at Oxford University and the Radcliffe Infir