Sean Michael O'Riordan was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Lincoln County Hospital and Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital. He was born in York on 3 August 1944, the eldest of three children of John Joseph O'Riordan, a psychiatrist, and Theresa Margaret O'Riordan née Markham, the daughter of

George Simon Edmund Dowd was an orthopaedic surgeon in London. Born on 9 November 1946 he studied medicine at Liverpool University and graduated MB ChB in 1971. After house jobs in orthopaedics at the David Lewis Northern and the Sefton General Hospitals in Liverpool he passed the fellowship of the