Anthony Pathmanathan Sandrasagra, the son of M F R Sandrasagra, was born on 9 May 1909 at Jaffna, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). After education at St Patrick's College, Jaffna and St Benedict's College, Colombo, he entered Colombo Medical College with the five year Jeejee Bhoy scholarship. He had an outst

Humphrey Walter Gowland was born in 1918 in Dunedin, New Zealand, the second son of Percy Gowland, who later became the eminent Professor of Anatomy at Otago Medical School. He was educated at first in Dunedin and later at Waitaki College where he had a distinguished international athletic career. H

Born in Gateshead on 23 January 1915 the eldest son of Thomas John Frederick Herbert, an engineer and his wife Edith, nee Ironsides, he was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the Medical School, Durham University, graduating MB, BS, in 1939. During his student days he was