John Barton Booth was a consultant ENT surgeon at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals. He was born on 19 November 1937, the son of Percy Leonard Booth and Mildred Amy née Wilson. He was educated at Canford School and at King's College, London, where he became an Associate (a diploma awar

Howard Davies qualified in 1960 and worked first in Newport, and then as consultant to the accident and emergency department at Carmarthen, where he is thought to have worked for 15 to 20 years. After his wife died prematurely of breast cancer, he became rather a recluse and the College has little i

Santanu Mukherji was a general practitioner in Yorkshire, with a special interest in cardiology. He was born in Calcutta. His father, Captain Maniklal Mukherji, was a founder member of the Indian Radiological Association, and physician to and friend of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, a winner of the N

William Lloyd Jones ('Will') was a consultant general surgeon at Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool. He was born into a farming family in Anglesey, Wales, and was taught in local schools. Deciding on a career in medicine, he chose to study in Liverpool, then a natural choice for a Welsh speaker. The fou

Duncan McColl Paterson was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, from 1970 to 2006. He was born in Glasgow on 11 March 1938, the second son of Joseph Craig Paterson, an engineer, and Flora Paterson née Forbes. He was educated at Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow

William Edward Granville Griffiths was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Portsmouth. He was born on 13 September 1938 in Neath, Glamorgan, the son of Melvin Griffiths, an engineer, and Sarah Vivienne Griffiths née Hughes. He was educated at Coedffranc Junior School, Skewen, and Neath Grammar Schoo

Gordon Midgley received his medical training at the Westminster Hospital Medical School where he qualified in 1937 and proceeded to house appointments at the Charing Cross Hospital. In 1938 he joined a general practice in Winchester and also the Territorial Army. He was called up in 1939 and served

Thomas Cecil Gray was the first professor of anaesthesia at Liverpool University and undoubtedly one of the great British pioneers of modern anaesthesia. He was born in Liverpool on 11 March 1913, the son of Thomas Gray, a local publican, and Ethelreda Unwin. A devout Roman Catholic, Cecil was educa

Alan Thackray was professor of morbid histology at the Middlesex Hospital and a notable authority on breast, salivary and renal tumours. He was educated at Cambridge University, from which he won the senior university scholarship to the Middlesex Hospital. After house jobs he specialised in pathol

Jonathan David Griffiths was an ophthalmologist at the Bath Eye Hospital. He was born on 6 March 1938 in a colliery house in Tonyrefail, Glamorgan, Wales. His father, William Marsden Griffiths, was a mining engineer and colliery manager, as had been his grandfather and great-grandfather before him.

Jashbhai Patel was a general surgeon who practised in India, the UK and the USA. He was born on 30 November 1927 in Dharmpuri in the Baroda District of Gujarat State, the second son of a farmer, Nathabhai Ukabhai Patel and his wife Chanchalben. After initially attending local schools he won a schola

Surgeon captain Peter Warren Head was an ENT consultant in the Royal Navy. He was born on 4 October 1924. He trained at Guy's, qualifying MB BS in 1948, and then held house posts at Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, including a six-month appointment in ear, nose and throat surgery. In 1950