Adrian Henry was born in Dublin on 22 June 1930, the son of Robert Francis Jack Henry, Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and his wife Stella Christine, née Ross. Adrian spent a year at the Dublin College of Art before studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. His s

George Charles Lloyd-Roberts was born in Liverpool on 23 November 1918, the son of Griffith Lloyd-Roberts (MD Edinburgh) and the Hon Gwendoline Frances (née Wynn). He was educated at Eton College, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital qualifying in 1942. He then joined the Royal Arm

Brendan Devlin pioneered the use of surgical audit in the UK. He was born in Lancashire on 17 December 1932, the son of John Devlin OBE, a general practitioner from Leix in Ireland, who acted as the local orthopaedic surgeon during the war and was active in medical politics. His mother was Kathleen