Gordon Nuttall Bailey was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, on 9 November 1905 the son of William Cooper Bailey, a company director and his wife, Esther, née Lomax. He was educated at Grosvenor House, Harrogate, Uppingham School, Clare College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital. He obtained MB

Noel Theodore Hannaford Schafer was born on 21 October 1905 in Solomon, South Australia, the son of Charles Ernest Schafer and Eva Schafer. He gained his FRCS in 1933. He died in Melbourne on 21 August 1996. He was 91.

Robert Wallace (Bob) Nevin was born in Burton-on-Trent in 1907, the son of a general practitioner. He was educated at Clifton College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He joined St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1929 and had a distinguished undergraduate career, winning the Cheselden and Clutton

Jack Albert White was born on 5 May 1906, the son of Edward James White, a colour lithographer and his wife Mabel, née Rollings. He was educated at Emmanuel School, Wandsworth, and, after two years, obtained a scholarship to Sutton Valence School, whence he was awarded an entrance scholarship to St

Harold Rodgers was Professor of Surgery at Queen's University, Belfast. He was born in Buldana, near Bombay, India, the third child and second son of Thomas Rivers Rodgers, a medical officer and prison governor, and Elizabeth Idee née Brinkworth, whose father was a civil servant. As a boy he became

Kenneth Leslie James was born on 15 July 1906 in Burton-on-Trent, the son of Joseph Henry James, MA, LIB, BD, who had given up the law to become a Methodist Minister, and his wife Minnie, née Longley. His early education was at the Burnley Grammar School but due to the peripatetic nature of his f

Born on 24 December 1906 in Tyrwaun, Ystalyfera, Swansea, David Lincoln Lewis was the son of William James Lewis, a medical practitioner, and Constance Mary Adeney, whose father owned Swaine and Adeney, the shop in Piccadilly. His younger brother, Ronald Swaine Lewis (qv this vol) was also FRCS. He

Arthur Latchmore qualified in 1929 and after junior posts in Leeds specialised in surgery. He was resident surgical officer at the General Infirmary Leeds, and surgical tutor in the University of Leeds. During the war he served in the RAMC as Lieutenant-Colonel. He returned to Leeds as consultant su

John Beal was born in London on 27 April 1906. His father, Richard Edward Bruce Beal, OBE, MC, was a solicitor, and his mother, Winifred Morgan, was the daughter of John Hammond Morgan FRCS, formerly senior surgeon at Charing Cross and Great Ormond Street, and a member of council. He entered Harrow

Shavax Mistri was a general surgeon in Karachi, Pakistan. Born on 27 August 1904 in Poona, he was the third child and second son of Nasarvanji Mistri, a civil engineer, and his wife, a doctor’s daughter whose maiden name was Shirinbai. Two of his mother’s brothers were also medically qualified. Educ

Libero Fatti was born on 13 January 1901 in Johannesburg of Italian parents, Luigi and Eliza Fatti, pioneers who had come from Sansepolcro, a small town in Tuscany, in 1896. He was educated until 1915 at the German school in Johannesburg and then at St John's College. After matriculating he started

Anthony Harvard Baker was born at North Walsham, Norfolk, the eldest son of the Reverend Anthony Charles Baker a Methodist minister; his second name recalled a distant relationship to John Harvard who had bequeathed his library to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the eighteenth century and had given his