For most of his career Peter Woodland Hunt was one of the few surgeons in the vast country of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). There he rapidly learnt to cope efficiently with mine accidents, ophthalmics, plastics and obstetrics, in addition to a heavy general surgical workload. He was born in Dubli

Thomas Candler, known to everyone as 'Tom', was a general practitioner and general surgeon in Bideford, Devon. He was born on 3 June 1920 in Exeter. His father, Arthur Lawrence Candler, was a surgeon who learned his craft in Mesopotamia in the First World War, and then became a consultant at the Roy

Marjorie Olive Bennett was a general practitioner and gynaecologist. She was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on 23 July 1915. Her father, Reginald Stanley Dunster, was a headmaster, and her mother, Olivia Sextone, a headmistress. From Newport High School she won a state scholarship to Bristol Univer

Roy Butterfield was a GP surgeon in Teignmouth. He was born in Bolton on 26 January 1929, the son of Howard Vincent Butterfield, a cotton yarn executive, and his wife, Edith née Entwistle. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He went on to the Westminster Hospital for his clinic

David Woodhead passed the primary FRCS while a student at King's College Hospital and the final in 1949 but decided, after an appointment as demonstrator in anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, on general practice as a career, conducting this in Weymouth from 1951 to 1971. While there he studied Ru

Alan Mathams was a general practitioner in East Sussex. He did his medical training at the Westminster Hospital, where he qualified in 1977. After junior posts, he chose a career in surgery and was registrar at St James Hospital, Balham, and Epsom District Hospital. He decided to become a GP, joinin

Philip Hack, the eldest child of Lewis Joel Hack, a merchant, was born on 25 May 1900 at Saduve, Lithuania. The family soon moved to Irene, Transvaal, South Africa. Philip was educated first at Hope Mill School, Cape Town, and then at Pretoria Boys' High School before entering the University of Cape

Charles Taylor was born at Motherwell, Lanarkshire on 13 June 1905, and was educated at Glasgow University where he graduated MB ChB in 1928. He went into general practice in Coventry, and, developing a special interest in ophthalmology, obtained the DOMS in 1934 and worked as a clinical assistant a

Maurice Backwell was born in Hull on 21 January 1900, and educated at The Old College, Windermere, and Charterhouse. Towards the end of the first world war he served for a short time in the East Yorkshire Regiment before starting his medical studies at Leeds University. He graduated MB ChB, in 1925

Douglas Green belonged to a well-known Ecclesfield family. Educated at Barnsley grammar school, he obtained an open scholarship and a major open county scholarship from the West Riding of Yorkshire to Sheffield University medical school. Green excelled both at work and games: he was a keen Associati

Arthur Naylor was born in Hoyland, near Barnsley, on 28 September 1912, the son of Albert Naylor, a colliery underground manager, and Louisa Armitage, the daughter of a miner. He was educated at Barnsley Grammar School and did his medical education at Sheffield, where he obtained first class honours

Barrington Sherwood Mather, known as 'Barrie', was a surgeon in Cairns and Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Birmingham on 15 February 1932, the eldest of three children of Cecil Aubrey Mather, a general practitioner, and Dorothy Collins Mather née Guest. His brother John also became a doctor and