Andrew Gordon Horsburgh was born on 1 August 1926, the third son of John Barber Horsburgh, an engineer, and his wife Catherine née Gordon. After attending St Paul’s Preparatory School, Colet Court, London, he finished his education at Clayesmore School in Dorset. He studied medicine at King’s Colleg

Achyutananda Sinha was professor and head of the ENT department at Patna Medical College Hospital, Patna, India. Born on 4 October 1927 in Dhanbad, India, he was the son of Gaya Prasad Sinha, who worked in the Bihar Civil Service, and his wife Tara Devi. After attending Patna High School, he matricu

Ransford George Kerr ‘Ran’ de Castro was a New Zealand based surgeon. He was born on 1 September 1926, the son of Leopold Ransford de Castro, a general practitioner in Te Kuiti, a town on the North Island of New Zealand, and Edith Mary de Castro née Kerr. De Castro studied medicine at Otago Universi

Edward Hargadon qualified MB ChB at the University of Wales in 1948 and obtained the conjoint diploma in the same year. He gained the Fellowship of both the College and the Edinburgh College in 1957. After a house post in the Fracture and Orthopaedic Department of the Royal Infirmary, Cardiff, he ma

Mihir Kumar Senapati was a medical officer in Nigeria. He was born on 30 December 1925, the second son of Nilamani Senapati, an administrator in the Indian Civil Service, and Indumati Senapati née Niyogi. He was educated at the Doon School in Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India, where he gained the schoo

Michael Alexander Browne was director of orthopaedic surgery at Stamford Hospital and St Joseph Hospital, Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He was born in Longford, County Longford, Ireland, the fifth of 11 children of Francis Joseph Browne, who worked in insurance, and Roseanne Browne née Murtagh, a hous

Harvey Burton Ross was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. Born on 1 October 1928 in London, he was the second son of James Patterson Ross KCVO (1st Baronet of Whetstone, Surgeon to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II) and his wife, Marjorie Burton née Townsend, a former

Bernard Langdon Whitaker was born on 22 October 1927, the son of Harold Whitaker, a marine superintendent, and his wife Helen née Wragg, a schoolmaster’s daughter. He was educated at Woking County Grammar School on a county major scholarship. In 1949 he graduated MB, BS from London University having

Alan Gerald Amias was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St George’s Hospital, London. Having spent his early years in the East End of London where he was born on 25 June 1929, he was evacuated to Bedford when he was eleven years old to escape the Blitz. Although he managed to gain swift

Bernard Nolan was a consultant surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary who took part in the first kidney transplantation in the UK. He was born on 17 August 1926 in Eccles, Lancashire, the son of Edward Nolan, an engineer, and Mary Nolan née Howarth, a teacher. His brother John would also go on to stud

John Ludbrook undertook medical studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, and showed an early interest in medical research by completing a BMedSci with no less than Jack Eccles, a Nobel Laureate. His residency training was at Green Lane Hospital, Auckland, with Douglas Robb. He received a NZ Un

Leslie Klenerman was professor of orthopaedic and accident surgery at the University of Liverpool. He was born in Johannesburg on 1 May 1929. His parents, Aaron and Fanny Klenerman, were part of a Latvian and Lithuanian community which had emigrated to South Africa earlier in the century. His father