Michael Pickering Pick was born on 6 August 1919, the son of Surgeon Rear-Admiral Bryan Pickering Pick and the grandson of T Pickering Pick, surgeon to St George's Hospital and editor of *Gray's Anatomy* from 1883 to 1905. He was educated at Sherborne and entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School,

Born at Dunedin, New Zealand in 1888 son of David Renfrew White (MA NZ 1884), Professor of Education in the University of Otago 1909-12, he graduated there in 1913 and then came to London, where he was a resident at St Bartholomew's, the Middlesex, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals. He wa

Norman Wynne Roberts, the second son of Dr Thomas Roberts, a general practitioner and later a medical officer of health, and of Elizabeth Roberts (née Thomas), was born at Caernarvon, North Wales, on 2 July 1907. He was educated at Grove Park Grammar School, Wrexham, and at Liverpool University. Aft

Born on 16 June 1885 the son of a doctor, he received his medical education at Guy's Hospital and while a student obtained first-class honours in physiology in the BSc examination, was a scholar of the medical school, and won the Oldham and Beaney prizes. In the war of 1914-18 he served as medica

George Leonard Shatwell was born in Litherland, a northern suburb of Liverpool, on 2 October 1913 and after early education in a local school left at the age of fourteen to work for a local pharmaceutical company. He acquired a strong ambition to study medicine and at the age of twenty-two was accep

Born at Royton near Oldham on 13 May 1903 the youngest of six children of a farmer who died the following year, he won his way to Hulme Grammar School with great determination in face of poverty. There he became captain of the cricket XI, and then went to Guy's Hospital where he served as demonstrat

Born at Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1903, he was educated at St Joseph's College and studied medicine at Sydney University, graduating in 1926. He was house surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for one year and at the Prince Henry Hospital for a further year, before he entered private prac

Born on 18 July 1900, the son of John William and Eileen MacFarland from Northern Ireland, he spent nearly the whole of his life in Liverpool and was educated at Wallasey Grammar School and Liverpool University where he qualified in 1922. From 1922 to 1925 he held a series of resident appointments a

Educated at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1931, he held appointments at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London and the General Hospital, Birmingham. During the second world war MacGowan was an orthopaedic specialist in the RAF, and after the war he settled in York as an orthop

Born on 4 May 1896 and educated at Aberdeen University, after qualification in 1920 he was appointed senior house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, and then casualty officer, resident medical officer and registrar at Great Ormond Street. After this he became a general practitioner surgeon in

Batookrai Anopchand Kamdar was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at West Hill and Joyce Green hospitals, Dartford, Kent. He was born on 29 October 1939 and studied medicine at the MP Shah Medical College in Jamnagar, Gujarat, qualifying MB BS in 1965. He gained his fellowships of the Royal College of

Wray Ellis was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the North and South Tees Health Districts. At Liverpool University, where he trained, he was demonstrator in anatomy and then he became orthopaedic registrar to the Alder Hey Children's Hospital and the Liverpool United Hospitals. A fellow of both t