David Bowen Morgan Williams was born in Cardiff on 6 November 1930 and after early education at Epsom College entered the University of Wales in 1946. He graduated as Bachelor of Science in 1950 and qualified three years later. Despite having had a mid-thigh amputation in adolescence he was determin

James Lythgoe was born in Wilmslow, Cheshire, on 10 November 1926, the son of Sir James Lythgoe CBE, a municipal accountant, who was quondam Chairman of the Manchester Regional Hospital Board, and Dorothy May, née Ashworth. He was educated at Bootham School, York, and St John's College, Cambridge, b

Yogendra Agrawal studied medicine in Calcutta, where he qualified in 1953. After junior posts he went to England to specialise in surgery and passed the FRCS in 1957. He returned to Gokakhpur, Jabalpur, in India and later moved to Delhi. He died on 4 April 1988.

Charles Grant Clark was born in 1926 and attended the academy at Fraserburgh, Scotland. On leaving school during the war he was initially accepted for the RAFVR but transferred to the Army serving in Bristol and India with the Blood Transfusion Service. He returned to Aberdeen for his medical traini

Goonatillake received his medical education at the Colombo Medical School, qualifying MB BS Ceylon in 1966 and later gained the MS at that university. From 1949 to 1957 he held posts in hospitals in Ceylon and was a registrar at Colombo General Hospital for three years before coming to Britain in 19

Dick Greenwood was born on 3 May 1928, the son of John Herbert Kay Greenwood, and Hilda née Wild. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he rowed for his college, and did his clinical training at St Thomas's. After junior appointments in London, Exeter and Gl