Hennessy had both medical and dental qualifications and practised in both fields. As well as his private practice in Melbourne he was honorary consultant surgeon in the Nose and Throat Department at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, and honorary consultant surgeon to the Royal Children's Hospital, M

Patrick Moore was born in Bristol on 17 March 1918. His father Arthur Eisdell Moore ("Eisdell"), who was in England on a post-War surgical appointment at that time, met his mother, Alice, a nurse from Yorkshire, in 1915 when serving as a field surgeon with the RAMC on the Western Front. Patrick was