Ralph Brooke did his medical training at Guy's where he was house surgeon and out-patients' officer. He became general surgeon to the Worthing Hospital and orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal County Hospital. During the second world war he was appointed surgical specialist for the 21st General Hospital

Edward Phillimore Brockman was born at Liverpool in 1895 and educated at Liverpool College and at Cambridge. His university career was interrupted by the first world war, when he served in the Royal Navy before returning to St Thomas's Hospital. He qualified in 1919 and proceeded in due course to th

Richard Hood Metcalfe was born at York on 16 September 1899, his father and mother both being doctors. He first went to school at St Olave's and later to St Peter's School, York, and in 1918 passed into Woolwich where he studied for a year, but in 1919 returned to York to complete his preparation fo

Anthony Stuart Yarker Platten gained BCh in 1965 and MB Cambridge in 1966. He gained Membership and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1970. He was registrar at the accident unit at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon. A member of the British Medical Association, he was orthopaedic r

Arthur Liddon Webb was educated at the University of Adelaide where he graduated MB, BS in 1922. He came to England and obtained the FRCS in 1929. He specialized in orthopaedics, and held the appointments of consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St George's Hospital and the Mater Misericordia Hospital i

Herbert Edward Harding was born in 1907. There is no record of his early education before he entered the London Hospital Medical College where he won a number of undergraduate prizes and qualified in 1931. After resident appointments at the London Hospital he completed the FRCS in 1933 to become sur

Stephen Copeland was a leading shoulder surgeon, known worldwide for his unique and innovative approach, as one of the pioneers of shoulder arthroscopy and the 'father' of shoulder resurfacing and stemless arthroplasty. He was born on 7 May 1946 in Shropshire and grew up in Cheshire. He was educa

Anthony John Harrold was educated at University College School, London, where he had a distinguished academic record. He moved on to St Mary's Hospital Medical School and graduated there with distinction in surgery in 1946. Following resident appointments at St Mary's, Amersham, and Bradford, he too

Derek Willey Purser was born near Heywood, Lancashire, on 14 June 1922, and was educated at Heywood Grammar School and Manchester University where he graduated MB ChB in 1946. After house appointments he took the FRCS in 1951 and served for two years as an orthopaedic surgeon in the Army in Germany.

John Harrington Pusey was born on 19 January 1940 and was educated at Chesham Boy's Preparatory School, Bucks, and at Wycliffe College, Stone-house, Gloucestershire. For his medical education he came to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the MB

Walter Harvey Gervis was born on 22 February 1901 in Brighton, Sussex, the son of Henry Gervis, medical practitioner and Matilda Death, a miller's daughter. His great, great grandfather was in practice in Ashburton. His great grandfather practiced in Tiverton and his grandfather was obstetric physic

Stephen Hugh Heaney was born in Dublin on 11 February 1940 and educated there at the High School and Trinity College. He had been admitted to Trinity with an open scholarship in mathematics but decided to read medicine. He won the Silver Medal of the Dublin University Biological Association in 1962