Alan Mearns was a cardiothoracic surgeon in Bradford. He studied medicine in Liverpool, qualifying MB ChB in 1963, and continued his surgical training in the city, passing his FRCS Edinburgh in 1969 and his FRCS in 1970. After a post as a senior registrar in cardiothoracic surgery at Killingbeck Hos

Michael Robert Peacock, born in the North of England in 1939 was educated at Repton School and the University of Liverpool, qualifying in 1963. Shortly afterwards he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and became interested in otorhinolaryngology. He passed the DLO in 1968 and the FRCS five years la

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

John Shennan was a consultant general surgeon for Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust. He was born in West Kirby on the Wirral on 28 July 1939, the son of William Millward Shennan, an architect from a family of architects who designed many of Liverpool's iconic buildings, and Pamela Mary Shennan née White, w