Terence McSweeney (always known as Mac) was born on 30 October 1920 in Youghal, County Cork, Eire. He was educated at Presentation College, Cork City, and University College, Cork, Medical School where he qualified with honours in 1943. His future career in orthopaedics, and particularly the treatme

Harold John Hambury was born of Jewish parents on 8 December 1910 in the German city of Stargard, Pomerania. He studied medicine at Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg, where he qualified in 1934. Owing to Nazi persecution he went to England in 1937 with little money and little knowledge of Engl

Mason was born in Kimberley of British immigrant parents in 1912, did his schooling at Kimberley Boys' High and went on to study medicine at the University of Cape Town. While there, he played water polo and swam for the university, and, being an accomplished pianist, played at the college dances. H