William Lloyd Jones ('Will') was a consultant general surgeon at Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool. He was born into a farming family in Anglesey, Wales, and was taught in local schools. Deciding on a career in medicine, he chose to study in Liverpool, then a natural choice for a Welsh speaker. The fou

Paul Townsend was born on 27 December 1937 in Hendon. During his early years the family lived in Radlett, Hertfordshire and, during the early years of the second world war, he remembered that he could see the bombs falling on London during the Blitz. His father worked as an army officer and later be

John Shennan was a consultant general surgeon for Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust. He was born in West Kirby on the Wirral on 28 July 1939, the son of William Millward Shennan, an architect from a family of architects who designed many of Liverpool's iconic buildings, and Pamela Mary Shennan née White, w

Glenn Neil-Dwyer was a consultant neurosurgeon at the Wessex Neurological Centre, Southampton. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, where his mother, Violet Agatha Neil-Dwyer née Hussey, was a teacher in the local school. His father, Glen Shamrock Neil-Dwyer, was of the generation who left Jamaica to s

Anthony John Hall, otherwise known to his friends and colleagues as ‘Tony’, was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. He was born in Kingston upon Hull to Percy Edwin John Hall and Mabel Hall née Webster. The family moved to Harrogate when Tony was still q

Robert Neill was a consultant general surgeon in Macclesfield from 1973 to 1995, where he was well respected by his patients and colleagues. He was the eldest of four children born to Scottish parents, Dorothy Knight Neill née Watson and Robert Andrew Neill, who was a general practitioner in Middlew

Murad Ghorbal was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Liverpool’s Walton and Fazakerley hospitals. Born in Masr El Gedida, Egypt on 17 March 1931 to Gertrude Humberstone of Bradford and an Egyptian, Shafik Ghorbal, Murad spent a happy childhood growing up in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. His mothe

Born in Belfast in 1940, Caves was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He entered medical school at Queen's University, Belfast, in 1958, graduated in 1964, and began a period of general surgical training in Belfast and Edinburgh. After taking the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1968 he began

Jonathan David Griffiths was an ophthalmologist at the Bath Eye Hospital. He was born on 6 March 1938 in a colliery house in Tonyrefail, Glamorgan, Wales. His father, William Marsden Griffiths, was a mining engineer and colliery manager, as had been his grandfather and great-grandfather before him.

John Barton Booth was a consultant ENT surgeon at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals. He was born on 19 November 1937, the son of Percy Leonard Booth and Mildred Amy née Wilson. He was educated at Canford School and at King's College, London, where he became an Associate (a diploma awar

Thomas Cecil Gray was the first professor of anaesthesia at Liverpool University and undoubtedly one of the great British pioneers of modern anaesthesia. He was born in Liverpool on 11 March 1913, the son of Thomas Gray, a local publican, and Ethelreda Unwin. A devout Roman Catholic, Cecil was educa