Edward Beck was a consultant surgeon at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford. He retired to Pulborough and died on 3 January 2001, survived by his son David, an anaesthetist.

Norman Wynne Roberts, the second son of Dr Thomas Roberts, a general practitioner and later a medical officer of health, and of Elizabeth Roberts (née Thomas), was born at Caernarvon, North Wales, on 2 July 1907. He was educated at Grove Park Grammar School, Wrexham, and at Liverpool University. Aft

Maurice James Bennett-Jones was born in Liverpool on 30 November 1906, his father was William James Bennett-Jones, consultant anaesthetist to Liverpool Royal Infirmary and his mother was Dr Daly - a Doctor of Medicine and a JP. He was educated at Rossall School, Fleetwood, and Liverpool University w

Richard Webster Doyle qualified in 1928 and graduated from Liverpool University in the following year. There is no record of his early appointments but he served in the RAMC during the second world war. He was taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Far East, spending three years in Changi jail where

Born 30 October 1904, the son of Joseph Edward Bowes MB, of Keswick, Cumberland, who survived him, Kenneth Bowes was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where his father was in practice. At the University of Liverpool he studied medicine and was awarded the Holt fellowship in ph