Barbara Elizabeth Stead was an ENT surgeon at Nottingham General Hospital. She was born Barbara Elizabeth Wood on 13 November 1932 in East Dulwich, London, the daughter of Norman Victor Mark Wood, a clerk, and Violet Annie Wood née Dight. She studied medicine in Leeds and qualified with the conjoint

Abhayakumar Gulabchand Gandhi (known as 'Arun') was a consultant ENT surgeon at St James's and Seacroft University hospitals, Leeds, and an honorary senior lecturer in otorhinolaryngology at the University of Leeds. He qualified MB BS from Bombay in 1959 and then worked in villages in Karnataka and

Patrick Booth (Pat) was an ENT surgeon at Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor. He was born on 17 March 1932. During the second world war he was evacuated from Hastings to St Albans and then sent with his two brothers, Geoffrey and Anthony, to Allhallows, a boy’s independent school in Rousdon, Devon in 1941.

James McGillivray Jackson (‘Jimmy’) was an ENT surgeon at West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds. He was born on 24 February 1932 in the Lowlands of Scotland, the son of a dentist. He had two brothers and one sister, and went to a boarding school in Scotland. When he was 18 he carried out his Nation

Thomas Michael Owen Morris was born in Borth, Cardiganshire, on 11 March 1928, the son of Reverend George Trevor Morris and after early education at Bloxham School, Banbury entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1946 having gained a choral scholarship. In addition to studying for the natural sciences