James Keith Ross was a leading cardiac surgeon, and one of the team that performed the first cardiac transplant in Britain. He was born in London on 9 May 1927. His father, Sir James Paterson Ross, was later to become professor of surgery at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Surgeon to the Royal Household

Grimsdell was born in Watford, England, in 1926 and did his medical training at Westminster Hospital. After a stint as medical officer in the RAMC in West Africa from 1952 to 1954, he trained in orthopaedics in London, at hospitals that included the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. He

'Tony' Buckle was born in Yorkshire and educated at Holgates Grammar School, York. In 1944 he enlisted in the RAF but the war ended before he completed his training as a pilot. He was released and began his medical career at Guy's Hospital, graduating in 1950. He received the Golding Prize Medal and

Alan Green was a consultant surgeon and urologist at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and a former president of the Travelling Surgical Society. He was born on 2 July 1927 in Leicester into a non-medical family. His father, Norman George Edwin Green, was a clerk for the Inland Revenue and his mother, Li

John Bridger was a consultant general surgeon in Stafford. Born on 2 September 1926, John grew up in Enfield, north London, where his father, George Bridger, was the superintendent of parks. His mother was Violet Millicent Bridger née Lee. He gained a scholarship to Enfield Grammar School and later,

Patrick James Chesterman was born in Hillingdon on 15 June 1928, the son of G.H. Chesterman, and after early education at Gunnersbury Roman Catholic School entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1944 at the unusually early age of sixteen. During his student days he captained the medical school

Stanley Albert Seligman was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He was born in West Ham, Newham, London on 29 July 1927, the son of Isaac Seligman and Sarah Seligman née Goldberg. He was educated at Ilford County High School and went on to study medicine at U

Norman Rothnie was a greatly respected consultant general surgeon with a major interest in peripheral vascular and also in thyroid surgery. He worked for over 30 years at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and made many contributions in peripheral vascular surgery. A tall man who 'never looked down' on an

Louis René De Jode was born on 29 November 1926 in East Ham, London. He was the son of Louis Guillaume De Jode and Germaine, née Tavernier, who left Belgium during the first world war. His father set up practice in the East End, where he became a much loved and respected family doctor. Louis always

Gaston Benett was born on 12 November 1922 in Poudre D'Or, Mauritius, the son of Raymond Benett, a hospital pharmacist, and his wife, Suzanne, née Davis, a teacher. He attended the Royal College in Mauritius from where he won a scholarship to Cambridge for his pre-clinical studies. He then entere

Michael John Gilkes was a consultant ophthalmologist at the Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton. He was born in Montreal, Canada, on 31 August 1923, the only child of Hester Dene Aram Parker, a musician, pianist and singer. She later married Martin Heming Gilkes, an author and teacher, who had lost a leg

Born in Penarth, South Wales, on 22 December 1915, John Peter Jackson's father was Spencer Jackson, a general practitioner, who died when he was only 12. His mother was Winifred Latta Tolson. He was educated at Epsom College and St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1940 and, after spending si