Arthur Pereira came to St George's as a student where he won the Allingham scholarship and qualified in 1929. He did not leave St George's until he retired. He qualified in 1929, and after junior posts at St George's and the Metropolitan and Neasden Hospitals, specialised in ear nose and throat surg

Alan Bowen-Davies was born on 26 July 1907 and educated at Harrow School (Headmaster's House) and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was chief clinical assistant, registrar and house surgeon to the ENT department at Guy's Hospital. He qualified MA MB BCh in 1933 and passed the Fellowship in 1936. Durin

Malcolm Haydon-Baillie was born in Sunderland on 27 August 1906, the elder son of Dr Thomas Cleghorn Baillie, DSc, principal of a technical college and Lily Christine Haydon. He was educated at Whitgift Grammar School and St Edmund's College, Ware, before entering King's College, London, and King's

Clifford Francis Evans was born on 24 July 1899 at Dimboola, Victoria, Australia, where his parents had emigrated from England; his father, Frank Evans, was a master builder and his mother, Martha East, had been a schoolmistress. He qualified as a pharmaceutical chemist from Melbourne College of