Stuart Calder was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Leeds. He studied medicine at Bristol University, qualifying MB ChB in 1986. He trained as a surgeon in Bristol, London and Yorkshire, and then spent two years carrying out research in Leicester, working with Paul Gregg. He was awarded his MD

John Ireland was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at King George Hospital Ilford, Essex and at the nearby private hospital Holly House in Buckhurst Hill, Essex. He was born in Newquay, Cornwall on 14 July 1942. His father, Victor Edwin Ireland, known as ‘Mike’, was stationed as a Second World Wa