Born in Liverpool on 26 December 1915, to Henry Ramsay Monro and Marjorie (née Wace) Robert Monro claimed direct descent from the Monros of Foulis and London. No less than five generations of his family held the DM Oxon and FRCP London and served as physicians on the staff of the Bethlem Hospital, b

Peter Phelps was a consultant radiologist at the Royal Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London. He was born on 22 May 1939, in Harrow, Middlesex. His father, Donald Percy Phelps, was part of the family who owned Meyer and Phelps, the surgical instrument makers. His mother, Phyllis Mabel née Willis, be