Stephen Creighton Suggit was born in Slingsby, Yorkshire, on 11 September 1909, the son of Dr Bertram Suggit MB, ChB Leeds, DPH, senior resident medical officer to the Public Dispensary, Leeds, and his wife Agnes Isabella, née Baker. His early education was at Bedford School, after which he enter

Johan Wilhelm Sture Hjalmarson Lindahl was born on 8 October 1906 in South Kensington, London, the eldest son of Bror Hjalmar Lindahl, a practitioner of Swedish remedial treatment and massage and Anna Isabella, née Uberg, previously a senior customs official at Norrkoping, Sweden. He was educated at