John Gwithian Craddock received his education at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. After service in the RNVR as a Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander he spent the earlier years of his career in Africa, first at Dar-es-Salaam, and from 1956 to 1962 as surgical specialis

Eustace Victor Hope, the younger son and second of three children of Herbert Ashworth Hope, a barrister and company chairman, was born on 3 June 1914 at Church Stretton, Shropshire. He was educated at Stowe School and Trinity College, Cambridge, before entering St Thomas's Hospital Medical School an

Keith Loraine Barnes, the son of a general practitioner, was born in Blackpool and educated at Arnold School and Manchester University where he qualified in 1940. After resident appointments at Manchester Royal Infirmary he enlisted in the Royal Navy and served throughout the second world war in the