John Mander, a former consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at York District Hospital, was born in Sheffield on 5 August 1924. His father, Thomas Goddard Mander, was a solicitor, and his mother, Edith Alice Ruth née Bland, a Montessori teacher. Her father had been a draper. John Mander was educa

John Vinnicombe was a consultant urologist in Portsmouth. He was born in Hounslow on 17 January 1930, the younger of two boys. His father, Francis William Vinnicombe, was an export agent in textiles. His mother was Marjorie Florence Vinnicombe née Shuff. John was educated at Godalming County Grammar

Shirish Bhansali was a consultant surgeon in Bombay, India. He was born on 21 September 1929 in Bombay into a medical family. His father was Kanchanlal Bhansali, a general practitioner, and his uncle was a gynaecologist. His mother was Kumud Vakil. He was educated at the Modern School and Elphinston

Anthony Hugh Taylor Hodgkinson was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for the University of New South Wales (NSW) teaching hospitals. Born on 27 February 1927 in Orange, NSW, he was the son of Henry Richard Hodgkinson and his wife Sarah Elizabeth née Taylor. His father was a surgeon and a fellow of th

Edward John Williams was a consultant vascular and general surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, London, and Wexham Park Hospital, Slough. He was born in Towyn, a small village in Clwyd, north Wales, on 3 February 1928, the son of D C Williams. He was educated locally and did his undergraduate studies at t

David Morris was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in London. David and his younger brother Gareth were the sons of the headmaster of a school in Briton Ferry, a small mining town in south Wales. David won a scholarship to Neath Grammar School but, with a family move during the Second Worl

Frank Loeffler was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St Mary's and Queen Charlotte's hospitals, London. He was born in India of Austrian parents, Ernst and Bianka. His father was a businessman who had moved to India in the 1920s. Loeffler lived in the elegant style of the Raj and went t

Mahmoud Booz was one of the first specialist orthopaedic surgeons in the Arab world. He was born in a small village in the Sharkiya province of Egypt on 6 June 1926. He completed his basic and high school education in Cairo and then joined the medical school at Cairo University (Kasr Alainy). In his

Datuk Konthath Achutha Menon was an eminent surgeon in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was born on 23 April 1923 in Rangoon, Burma, the son of Kunhiraman Nair Menon, a civil servant, and Paimavathy Ammal Menon. He was educated at St Antony's English High School in Rangoon, where he was a merit scholarshi

Andrew Bearn was born in Wallington, Surrey, on 9 May 1929, the son of Joseph Gauld Bearn, an industrial chemist, and his wife Hilda (née Keil). Two of his uncles were in the medical profession. He was at school in Berkhamsted before entering the Middlesex Hospital where he was awarded the Lyell Med

Michael Joseph Ball was a consultant surgeon at the Mansfield group of hospitals. He was born in London on 21 February 1925. His father, Norman Dyer Ball, was a general practitioner. Michael came from a long line of doctors; his paternal grandfather was a medical missionary in Hong Kong, and three o

William Ashby was born in Prenton, Birkenhead, on 17 May 1925, the son of Ernest William Ashby, a consultant electrical engineer and his wife Dorothy Margaret (née Bennett). He went to school at Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool and graduated in medicine at the University of Liverpool in 1948. Th